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Articles tagged with: Sms and Facebook
Facebook Launches Mobile Messenger App
Facebook is looking to take a chunk out of the mobile networks lucrative sms text messaging services with the launch of a new mobile application that seeks to send messages to its own website in addition to the sms delivery. more
Related Tags: text-message
Facebook Buys Mobile Messaging Platform - May Undercut SMS Services
Social networking website, Facebook has brought the mobile messaging software vendor, Beluga for an undisclosed amount, in a move which could suggest that Facebook is looking for cheaper alternatives to plain text messaging for some of its mobile services. more
Related Tags: beluga, mobile-messaging, mobile-web, j2me
Are texting and Facebook worse for teens than TV?
What's worse for teenage brain: 6 hours of texts and Facebook or 6 hours of mindless reruns? more
Related Tags: text-messaging,
Survey Finds Facebook more Popular than SMS - but SMS Used More than Facebook
A smallish survey of 300 consumers in Boston, USA by PR agency, Prompt Communications found that phone calls remain the most common method of communication, with 99% of respondents regularly using the phone to connect with friends and family. Facebook (96%) is now the next most popular communication tool, followed by sms (93%) and email (91%). more
Related Tags: email, connect, usa,
First SMS Worm Detected to Infect Smartphones
Internet security vendor, F-Secure says that it has detected the first known sms based worm for mobile phones. In its quarterly update on the security issues faced by computer and smartphone users, the company noted that the biggest malware story of 2009 so far has been the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm. It is a classic worm exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, of the type that has not been seen in the past few years. more
Related Tags: , microsoft, smartphone, ict, smartphones, wind, spam, f-secure, text-message, worm
Twitter Support for 2-Way SMS Returns to Canada
Bell Canada has announced that Bell Mobility will be the first wireless carrier to resume Canadians full sms support for interacting with the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Last November, Twitter stopped supporting 2-way sms traffic, citing the high costs of sending the replies back to the handsets. more
Related Tags: social-networking, twitter, andrew, bell-mobility, bell, Canada
Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at Ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as Facebook's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. Facebook's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, social-networking, twitter, ovum, ofta, yahoo, compete, text-messages, target
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