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Text message kills mobile phones
News A short text message is spelling death for mobile phones in Europe. Opening the short text message on a Siemens 35 series cell completely disables it, Rice said. The wireless email, among the 1 billion sent each day in the region, can freeze or...
[March 19, 2003, 7:28]
Text message kills policeman
News An inquest today heard that a policeman died in a car crash after reading a text message on his mobile phone. PC Darren Riley was driving to work in heavy rain when the message arrived. He didn't have a hands free set, and had to press ten buttons...
[August 24, 2000, 16:24]
How to avoid falling for text message scams
News One case flagged up by the government concerned an unsolicited text message that included the phrase "I fancy you" and invited the recipient to find the sender's identity by calling a premium rate number.
[November 12, 2002, 14:55]
Re-think on divorce via text message
News Malaysian authorities may soon overturn a controversial court ruling that allows Muslims to end marriages by text message. Last week, a landmark ruling by the Islamic Syariah Court stated that an SMS (short message service) is valid as a statement...
[July 31, 2003, 10:40]
This text message will self-destruct
News Once a message has been sent, the recipient receives a text notification showing the sender's name and providing a link to the message. Once opened, the message will disappear after about 40 seconds. The ability to send a self-destruct message has...
[December 13, 2005, 10:35]
Divorce by text message 'unacceptable'
News In an about-face from their decision last month to let men divorce their wives by a text message on their mobile phones, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS), the Syariah Court and the Registry of Muslim Marriages released a statement...
[August 8, 2001, 10:45]
Man divorces wife by text message
News A man in Dubai who divorced his wife by a short text message has set a legal precedent for other Islamic divorce cases. The Dubai courts have now accepted that this can be done electronically, after a man divorced his wife by a single text message...
[June 28, 2001, 16:28]
Lenovo ThinkPads to get text-message kill switch
News Those who think their laptop might have been lost or stolen will be able to send a text-message command such as 'Lockdown PC now' or 'PC shut off' to the SIM-enabled ThinkPad, thus automatically locking the device.
[November 25, 2008, 12:21]
Malaysians divorce by text message
News The court was considering a high-profile divorce case in which a man sent a text message stating his desire to divorce to his wife of 18 months. But in Malaysia, a landmark ruling by the Islamic Syariah Court has stated that an SMS (short message...
[July 28, 2003, 12:16]
Researchers attack MMS phones via text message
News Researchers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday showed how an attacker could spoof a type of SMS message that appears to be sent from the carrier or some other trusted source.
[July 31, 2009, 16:21]
Cisco reports rise in text-message scams
News Text-message scams are on the rise, particularly fake messages that appear to come from a legitimate bank, said the report, which covers a variety of cybercrime topics. In many of the scams, SMS messages direct recipients to call a telephone number...
[July 15, 2009, 15:28]
More texts please, we're British
News A record number of Britons are expected to say "I love you" -- or something considerably saucier -- by text message on 14 February this year. According to Vodafone, there were 400 marriage proposals by text message last year, but one unlucky wife...
[February 14, 2002, 8:24]
Sainsbury's sexy SMS job ad causes complaints
News A text message advertising jobs at a local store was sent by Sainsbury's to hundreds of people in Stockport, telling them that the sender needed them and couldn't get enough of them. The text message continued, "Sainsbury's is recruiting at a new...
[March 14, 2002, 16:16]
SMS marketing may be cut off by new e-commerce law
News Unsolicited text message marketing seems set to die an early death under the impending Electronic Communications Directive due to be enforced later this year, which will make it obligatory for all companies to include their registration and...
[August 24, 2001, 13:00]
Phone phishing attack hits US
News Criminals have launched a blended attack which attempts to lure users to a malicious Web site via text message. Users are sent an SMS text message to their mobile phone, thanking them for subscribing to a fictitious dating service.
[June 23, 2006, 17:05]
Startup Spotlight: Impulse m-commerce with Scan.com
News The future is m-commerce with Scan, a new service that lets allows you to shop via the text message service on your ordinary mobile phone. Extra benefit: if you've registered on the site with your credit card, you can buy instantly with another...
[June 16, 2000, 10:49]
Text messages get mission-critical status
News The Short Message Service (SMS) or text message technology started life in the consumer world, but it is now becoming an accepted medium for business communications, overtaking older, well-established technologies such as pagers.
[July 14, 2003, 12:03]
Text-happy Brits need deep pockets
News Sending a text message in the UK is up to four times more expensive than in Cyprus or Denmark, according to communications consultancy, Broad Group, which published the statistics in its Mobile Data Pricing study.
[July 8, 2003, 16:25]
Voters to get election results via text
News South Oxfordshire District Council is giving voters the option of receiving local election results as a text message. South Oxfordshire is using text message server software from Avanquest to distribute messages to voters tomorrow when the results...
[May 3, 2007, 15:46]
Text messaging blamed for pedestrian's death
News A lorry driver was accused Monday of killing a pedestrian while typing a text message on his mobile phone. He denies that he was typing a text message just before the accident happened, so a trial will be held to rule on the issue.
[February 12, 2001, 14:50]
