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Articles tagged with: Spam
Vodafone Hutchison Australia Warned for Breaching Anti-Spam Laws
..lecoms regulator after it supported an SMS marketing campaign that breached the country's anti-spam laws. The Australian Communications and Media Authority accepted enforceable undertakings from three companies - Vodafone Hutchison Australia ( more
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Injunctions Granted Against Australian SMS Spammers
..ning injunctions and declarations against a number of parties involved in the ACMA's first SMS spam case before the Federal Court. The matter relates to the sending of unsolicited commercial SMS messages. Justice Logan gave default judgment on 1 more
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Thai Operators Start Blocking Spam SMS
Thailand's three main mobile network operators are to cooperate on blocking SMS spam being sent over their networks. The three GSM based networks, AIS, DTAC and True Move are to spend THB 30 million (US$880,000) on anti-spam software to filter messages sent between their three networks. more
Related Tags: ais, dtac, true-move, sms, text-messaging, base, three, Thailand
Spam increased in Q2, despite 3FN takedown
During the second quarter of 2009, the amount of spam is up 53 percent from the first quarter of the year and the amount of spam containing malicious attachments is the highest it has been since 2007, according to Google. more
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US senator annoyed by spam call about car warranty
The telephone calls flood people every day around the country: A computerized voice tells them that their car warranties are about to expire and that they should sign up for new service plans. more
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First SMS Worm Detected to Infect Smartphones
..n about the phone to its makers who then use this information to send SMS spam. "Sexy View is important in many ways," Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's Chief Research Officer said. "It is the first text message worm ever. It's also the fir more
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Australian Firm Warned to Stop Sending Spam SMS
..with the Spam Act by SMS marketers has been integral to raising awareness of SMS spam amongst the general public and the business community," said Chris Chapman, ACMA Chairman. In other recent outcomes relating to SMS, ACMA has issued infri more
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Optus Fined for Breaching Australian Anti-Spam Laws
.. the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for breaches of the country's anti-spam legislation. The infringement notices were in relation to 20,000 commercial electronic messages sent by Optus that ACMA alleges failed to provid more
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Australian SMS Firm Agrees to Abide by Anti-Spam Laws
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has accepted an enforceable undertaking from Oxygen8 Communications, after investigating complaints under the spam Act 2003 that commercial messages in the form of SMS were sent by content providers using Oxygen8 CommunicationsÃ' technology platforms. more
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Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn
.. from potential security threats such as mobile fraud, spam and viruses." The study was carried out by comScore M:Metrics. more
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