The virus infects the Symbian OS found on Nokia Series 60 handsets and affects the phone directory software, selecting one directory profile at random and sending a copy of itself to that person.

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Truecaller offers a crowd-sourced global phone directory app and online white pages that let you look up unknown phone numbers and match them with names as well as revealing when spam callers are trying to get through.

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The former News of the World editor is accused, along with ex-NoW royal correspondent Clive Goodman, 55, from Surrey, of requesting and authorising payments to public officials in exchange for information, including a royal phone directory known as the Green Book.

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He had Donnelley's artists put the findings in a brochure and offered all his directory customers (phone companies and so on) free seminars on how to sell the expensive ads to small businesses.

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He had Donnelley artists put the findings in a fancy brochure and offered all his directory customers (phone companies and so on) free seminars on how to sell the expensive ads to small businesses.

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Fully integrated into BlackBerry Contacts, when the customer launches the app for the first time, WhatsApp can automatically scan existing phone numbers in the contact directory and extract the ones using WhatsApp, to help customers build out their contacts list and get started right away.

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Likewise, the much smaller directory business, which includes phone books, is dropping.

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