Mobile users can also be duped through so-called "smishing" -- a combination of the words SMS and phishing -- where a user receives a text message asking for personal information like a credit card number, e-mail address or social security number.
It's bruited that the Israel Defense Forces will be moving forward on a plan to light up a new cellular system that will blast out SMS-CB alerts to citizens if and when a missile is fired in the direction of Israel.
ENGADGET: Israel to activate SMS-CB missile alert system next year
HarassMap uses a simple SMS-based system to enable victims and witnesses to anonymously report sexual harassment incidents as soon as they happen.
Depending on your math and service plan, the price of sending a simple SMS text message can range from a minor nuisance, to high-tech highway robbery.
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Subsequently, she plummeted a few feet down onto the subway tracks, only to be saved by a station worker who fearlessly hopped down to rescue her SMS-focused mind (and body, too) as the oncoming train screeched to a halt just 20 meters before running her over.
ENGADGET: Woman plummets onto subway tracks while carelessly texting
If and when a specific event occurs (e.g. 50 individuals cross a virtual line), owners can be alerted via SMS -- and, of course, they can then view only the footage pertaining to said event with merely a click.
In Finland, SMS consumption of iPhone owners declined at a -20% rate over the same time period.
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Now that SMS is taking off, a new data-service wireless-application protocol, or WAP, is taking hold for digital cellular networks.
Remember pre-Internet email systems or SMS where you could only send a message to someone on the same system?
Yet in our review, only 2% of the Hot 100 retailers sought in-store engagement through SMS, and only 5% promoted a proprietary mobile application.
You might remember Zipwhip from its SMS-enabled espresso machine, but the outfit's hoping a new feature added to its cloud-based text-messaging platform will catch your attention this time around.
The art of smishing (SMS-Phishing) has been practiced for some time, but a discovery by the wizards at NC State University has uncovered a new vulnerability that could bring the aforesaid act back into the spotlight.
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So how do you build a relationship-first approach with mobile marketing and SMS?
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The move comes as Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS) bids to take advantage of a drive to fit every UK home with a smart meter by 2020.
Notably, there was no word on whether or not the phone was saved, or more importantly, whether or not the presumably urgent SMS ever got sent -- but considering this is the second case in a matter of days in which a human being nearly lost their life to a cellphone, we beg you: text responsibly, dear friends.
ENGADGET: Woman plummets onto subway tracks while carelessly texting
The infiltration of text messaging these days is astounding, and after years of being way behind our European counterparts, us Yanks are mosying up to SMS like never before -- to the tune of billions of text messages a month in the U.S. But let's talk about love -- is it coming into its own regarding the text messaging game?
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Russian malware writers have begun to create new SMS Trojans for Android, whereas a users phone is sending repeated texts to 1-900 phone numbers, nickle and diming millions of users around the world who barely notice their phone account has been compromised.
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That's not the sirens' fault -- a mind-numbingly loud "whoop whoop" really doesn't have the bandwidth to reveal that kind of information to the human ear -- but now that SMS-capable phones are ubiquitous, it's time to smarten things up just a tad.
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SMS.ac, a mobile portal, found that 64% of young people favoured in-flight texting, and only 11% liked the idea of making calls.
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Over four billion people have a cell phone with SMS capability and many of them will upgrade to an Internet-enabled smartphone in coming years.
French jailbreak developer and security researcher pod2g finds that every iPhone firmware revision, even iOS 6 beta 4, is susceptible to a flaw that theoretically lets a ne'er-do-well spoof the reply address of outbound SMS messages.
ENGADGET: iPhone reportedly vulnerable to text message spoofing flaw
Last month the head of SMS' health care division emulated his French colleagues by breaking out a division to focus on its 258 nursing-and retirement-home clients.
In Europe I've seen countless mobile banking ideas over the last decade - from the soft drinks machine in Helsinki where you paid by SMS, to the phone which doubled as a travelcard for London's transport system, and innumerable schemes involving Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.
"We'd like to inform our subscribers that al-Jazeera SMS service has been compromised by hackers who have sent fake news, " the TV channel said in a tweet.
In addition to the existing social network integration, Flipboard now includes a share button of its own on magazine covers -- this allows you to share magazines via SMS, email or on Pinterest.
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