The fake app, once installed on your Android handset, tries to send premium-rate SMS messages behind your back.
India ordered the blocking of over 250 websites and asked mobile-service providers to restrict the number of SMS messages.
Now, some services are starting to bring in the ability to swap SMS messages between phones and set-top boxes.
But technology experts dismissed those suggestions - the concept was based on SMS messages, containing relatively small amounts of digital information.
This makes it easier for them to compose emails or SMS messages.
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Because this is a malicious app that seems to be relying in the sending of background SMS messages to earn its creators revenue.
Vivian Fonseca collaborated in the development of a system for sending SMS messages to poor and elderly diabetics to help them control their disease.
Call quality (including the elimination of echoes) is said to be improved in this build, and customers can now send SMS messages over WiFi.
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It placed the 140 character limit on users from the start because of restrictions carriers put on lengths of SMS messages back in 2006.
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Compared to US carriers, Chinese carriers charge much less for SMS messages, but the volume in China is so high that it has become a major revenue source.
Mobile users sent over 6 trillion SMS messages in 2010.
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Putin took questions from the hall's floor, with live cameras positioned in towns and cities across Russia, and he also responded to phone calls, e-mails and mobile SMS messages.
Geva Rechav, a Google product manager for emerging markets, confirmed in a blog post that Gmail SMS messages will be free to receive, but standard fees will apply for outgoing emails.
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On July 28, 2010, India told RIM to either allow New Delhi to monitor its customers encrypted e-mails and SMS messages or they will terminate RIMs authorization to sell in India.
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It also reads SMS messages to the user.
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Every night of the tournament, fans can send in their emails and SMS messages to the studio to get their views aired live on air, get it off their chest and share their gripes with other viewers.
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.
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The hacker doesn't even need to be in the same ZIP code to crack a firewall or VPN -- the 3G link lets the Power Pwn take bash command-line instructions through SMS messages and doles out some of its feedback the same way.
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The iPhone also gets a grab bag of new features, including the ability to show a user's location on Google maps (without a global positioning system chip, slick), customizable home screens, and the ability to send SMS messages to multiple people at once, among other features.
In addition to any Facebook messages or calls you already send or make, Facebook Home pulls SMS text messages into the mix.
They can send premium SMS text messages that actually cost you money and put money in the hands of the person who is writing the premium SMS service.
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The PRADA phone by LG 1.0 was the world's first touchscreen mobile phone, and the 2.0 provided an innovative mobile experience through its unique watch with Link technology, which allowed for easy access to caller ID, SMS text messages, call history, call block and two-way alarm notification.
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View SMS, instant messages, calls and voicemails to give users a context when they are calling.
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The company reported its youth-oriented brand, Hi, saw an 8% decline in outgoing SMS or text messages per customer in the first three months of this year compared with the first quarter of 2010.
The Home software also can display SMS communications and Facebook messages as "chat heads" that hover over a user's screen regardless of what app is being used, another feature that places Facebook at the center of consumers' online interactions, no matter the medium.
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The Stop Texting Fair Use Act, or STFU Act, would apply to message transmitted using the Short Message Service (SMS) as well as messages containing image, video, and sound content (MMS messages).
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To date SMS GupShup has signed up 30 million users and now buys network capacity to send roughly 1 billion text messages a month, as much as 8% of the SMS text traffic in India.
Meyer created a communications system that works on any telephone network and can be accessed on any mobile handset, PC or landline phone using voice messages, e-mail or SMS text.
According to the research almost 40% of consumers who previously opted in to receiving promotional emails from a retail marketer are also interested in getting promotional messages from these same retailers via SMS or text messaging.
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