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RSS messages in newsUS Supreme Court backs ISP in libel battle
News The US Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by a man who tried to sue ISP Prodigy over threatening messages sent under his name. According to a report on BBC Online, Alexander Lunney tried to sue Prodigy after an... [02 May 2000]
Businesses struggling with fatty spam
News Spam messages are becoming both larger and more plentiful. All those bulky messages can add up to storage headaches for businesses. The average spam email has swelled to 4.5 times the size it was 12... [07 Dec 2006]
PGP: How it works
News Messages encrypted with the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) algorithm could fall prey to a technique that fools senders into decoding their own secret messages, according to researchers. By Robert Lemos The... [13 Aug 2002]
Billion-email spammer arrested
News A man who has sent almost one billion spam messages has been arrested in New York for identity theft. On Wednesday, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said that his office brought four felony and two misdemeanour charges... [15 May 2003]
US man arrested for spim
News A US teenager has become the first person to be arrested for the sending of unsolicited instant messages - or spim. It is alleged Greco sent 1.5 million messages advertising pornography and mortgages. [21 Feb 2005]
Airline lauches onboard SMS
News Airline passengers may soon be able to send and receive text messages in midflight. But instead of their own mobile phones, passengers will have to use the in-seat telephone handset or seatback entertainment console to... [17 Sep 2003]
Vodafone delivers email and faxes to your mobile
News Vodafone has today unveiled an enhanced voicemail service that presents voicemail, email and fax messages in a single inbox. Users can receive and respond to messages regardless of format. Russell Jones,... [07 Oct 2002]
Signed spam tries to fool filters
News Bulk emailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick. The trick was noted on several security lists, as the... [13 Oct 2003]
Text messaging to be worth $6.5bn within two years
News By this time Mobile LifeStreams predicts the global market for SMS (short message service) text messages will be worth $6.5bn. During December 2000 15 billion text messages were sent worldwide and a... [13 Mar 2001]
Is the end nigh for spam?
News Unsolicited email messages, or spam, are on track to make up the majority of traffic on the internet. But a group of researchers and developers who gathered in the US on Friday hopes to halt that by coming up with better... [20 Jan 2003]
Text reminders for doctors' appointments
News Patients in west London will soon be getting text messages when they have a doctor's appointment. As well as appointment reminders the system can send health messages such as invitations to receive flu... [23 Nov 2006]
Texts to reveal who committed crimes?
News Forensic experts are to study how text messages could be linked to crimes. Guinea pigs will each be asked to contribute 10 anonymous text messages, which researchers will try to link to the contributer's... [11 Aug 2006]
Sky Digital brings SMS to TV sets
News Sky Digital and UK telecoms firm Thus have launched an SMS service which will enable users to send and receive text messages via their television sets. Sky customers can already send text messages from... [16 Sep 2002]
Football voicemail messager Incite to take AIM
News Voicemail messages from star Premiership football players sent to fans' mobile phones is the key service offered by a mobile media company set to buck the current economic downturn by floating on the stock market next... [19 Aug 2003]
California bans mobile spam
News California's mobile phones should soon be officially freed from unwanted text messages. Last Thursday, Governor Gray Davis signed a bill that would prohibit companies from spamming mobile phones and pagers with unwanted... [23 Sep 2002]
