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Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News Some users have also complained about the necessity of carrying the device with them, leading one user to hack PINsentry to send new access codes to his mobile phone via SMS. Earlier this month Barclays offered all its online customers free... [18 Jul 2008]
Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Spam in the Enterprise: Email Traffic Shaping Joins the Fight Against Spam
White Paper It then presents the benefits realized by organizations that have deployed SMS 8160 appliances in conjunction with other antispam solutions, along with a Return On Investment (ROI) analysis for one of the service provider customers that agreed to... [01 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment All voice, voice over IP, SMS, instant messaging and email just worked! Even more curious, my porn spam continued and I actually had one site pop-up, unwanted, on my browser. Edited on the London to Ipswich train a week later and despatched to... [07 Aug 2006]
Barclays signs up F-Secure for free AV package
News As an additional safety feature, Barclays will also offer an SMS texting service that will notify customers of online banking activity. Hales said that as well as the commercial opportunity of selling the licences to Barclays, F-Secure is hoping... [30 May 2006]
Radioactive: Is mobile IM bad for business?
Comment The proposed payment system for the 'personal IM' scheme will be to charge the sending party, with charges similar to SMS. The intention in offering mobile IM is not to undermine SMS revenues but to add to them with a more invidious and addictive... [21 Feb 2006]
Operators promise mobile IM for all
News Traditionally, operators have been loathe to push services such as mobile IM and email fearing it would cannibalise on lucrative SMS messaging. He said: "There will be fewer viruses and less spam than on many internet-based services. [14 Feb 2006]
Liberty Alliance targets mobile spam
News Once finished, the interface specification for mobile messaging will work with both plain SMS, or Short Message Service, and with MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service, which is typically used to send images and music. [21 Jun 2005]
Mobile spam: Would you ditch your operator?
News Mike Grenville, CEO of SMS messaging Association 160 Characters, expressed concern that the findings could be taken out of context, adding that 80 per cent of mobile users having received some spam is not indicative of a problem - given, as seen... [10 Feb 2005]
Spammers fined €87,500 in Dutch crackdown
News Opta has been tackling spam since a new telecommunications law, which bans unwanted email, faxes and SMS messages, came into force in the Netherlands in May. In a separate case, the regulator imposed a fine of €20,000 on marketing company Yellow... [29 Dec 2004]
Q&A: Microsoft's CIO on Linux, security and offshoring
Comment Last year, with Exchange, Windows, and SMS - that really dealt with the IT infrastructure side. We get a lot of spam. How about the things we are hearing a lot about - spam and spyware? We delete more than nine million of those as spam. [15 Dec 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.10.04
Round-Up So, having exhausted telephone, post, carrier pigeon, town crier and we presume sky-writing, the headmaster sent an SMS message to the boy's mother, giving her the bad news, which may or may not have been similar to the one above, which was... [29 Oct 2004]
Vint Cerf loves email and IM equally
News Email is not dead - but all forms of communication, from IM, to email to SMS now carry equal weight but perform starkly different tasks, according to Vint Cerf, the man regarded by many as the 'father of the internet'. [18 Jun 2004]
Watchdog deals £450,000 fine to mobile scammers
News Premium rate watchdog Icstis (Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services) has levied fines of almost half a million pounds on several companies found to have been sending out SMS spam and engaging in... [25 May 2004]
The Impact of the New Spamming Directive on SME’s
White Paper Digitisation of mailing lists shared by multiple electronic distribution channels means spam can be encountered just as readily via a mobile telephone by way of SMS or WAP connections. The amalgamation of digital technology through the development... [27 Apr 2004]
SMS and online ads draw record complaints
News The ASA puts its new spam laws - requiring users to explicitly opt-in to receive email advertising - as the chief reason for the increase. They may also want to look at the accompanying rise in email spam itself. [23 Apr 2004]
