Tag Archives : SMS

Using only the sending of SMS messages, a group of researchers managed to turn off cell phones and disconnecting them from the network. The devices in question they were not just smartphones, proving that any cell would be vulnerable to attacks. Beyond text messages, the SMS protocol can be used to transmit binary small programs that run on the device. [...]

Yesterday in San Francisco, California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of what he calls “modern messaging system.” Mark opened the meeting discussing how the mail is a formal system for other young people to communicate and explain the messaging system is not a fantastic email system but something that includes a part. To [...]

One of the biggest and foremost Voice Over Telephony service, Skype, is all set to receive a crucial partnership integration with the biggest social networking service in the world, Facebook. As per reports, Skype will soon get a Facebook Connect feature, with which Skype users will be able to send SMS and conduct voice as well as video chats with their [...]

The number of users of the microblogging service Twitter just keeps growing. Created in 2006, the site has 145 million accounts, less than five months after reaching the mark of 100 million entries. The information was released on Thursday (2) by the chief executive, Evan Williams, in a blog post on the official product. He noted particularly the growth [...]

The company Skype aims to raise $ 100 million through an initial public offering (IPO in the stock market) in the United States. The order of business is to diversify and further increase revenue and user base. In its presentation, the corporation said that most of its revenue now comes from the SkypeOut service, which the company intends to expand, [...]

Be careful with the applications you’ve been installing on your device with Android. A recent study revealed that one in five applications of this system allows access to private information of the user, and some can even perform actions without the owner’s knowledge of the device. According to PC World site, analyzed some apps could send [...]

Some time ago, in a bar in Redwood, California, was found a device in the Apple iPhone 3G case, that seemed nothing like the iPhone 3G or the iPhone 3GS. Speculations immediately took the form of wild fires and the news of an all new next generation Apple iPhone began circulating all over the web. Then days later, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, proudly introduced [...]

After leaking the pictures of the new version of the operating system for mobile devices from Google, now it was time for official “leaking” information. Google announced the SDK Kit (Software Development) for the Android version 2.0, codenamed Eclair, and along with it some new features were discovered. Not only that, apparently on November [...]

During some time the email seemed to be the most innovator way of communicating between the people. Programs like Microsoft Outlook seemed to be essential for any one that wanted enjoy the marvels of the electronic communication among people. However, without we noticed, the emails passed to be substituted gradually by other communication forms. From [...]

Your phone is like a part of your body? A global survey shows that most people cannot live without their mobile phone. They never leave home without it and, given a choice, would prefer to lose the handset portfolio. Calling cell phones in “remote control” for life, a study bythe research firm Synovate Market says the phone is so ubiquitous [...]