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There have been quite a few security issues in the news this past week.  Let’s take a look at some of the top stories:  Hackers wasted no time in exploiting the release of the much anticipated MMS functionality for the iPhone.  AT&T finally made it available on Friday (September 25,… Continue Reading »

When Apple first announced the iPhone 3.0 upgrade and later when it debuted the iPhone 3GS it was happy to tout the new MMS features.  The feature would roll out immediately with 3.0 to most every iPhone carrier.  AT&T was the one exception, though at the time it was said… Continue Reading »

Love peppering your Facebook page with photos but hate the one at a time upload system?  It seems the folks at Facebook have heard your cry because now they’ve opened up a new route for you to post your images.  Now you can simply email photos and video to your… Continue Reading »

With the many announcements that took place today at WWDC, I’m pretty shocked about the whole tethering, MMS, and TomTom thing.  First of all, really AT&T?  You are going to wait until late Summer to unveil MMS?  A feature that many cell phones, including Palm Pre already feature?  That’s just… Continue Reading »

By now, we’re all pretty much aware of SMS and MMS messages.  We’re also probably aware of the drawbacks, such as the fact that you can never be sure that the person is going to actually respond to the text message.  A new system is on its way that will… Continue Reading »

T-Mobile has just announced that as of August 29 the rates for text and picture messages will be going up. With a nice increase, the per message rate will now be the same as most other major carriers as it is going from 15 cents up to 20 cents. These… Continue Reading »

Sprint’s current lack of support for MMS or PictureMail in their network might be ending soon, as Chief Marketing Officer John Garcia reveals plans that they are working on something with Microsoft for Windows Mobile devices. In a response to a customer’s query, John said: “We’re working with Microsoft to… Continue Reading »

Coming just one year after the previous message rate increase, AT&T has announced another increase that will take effect as of March 30, 2008. Customers who are not on a message plan and just pay-per-message will see an increase of $.05 per message, which will bring the SMS price up… Continue Reading »

Verizon Wireless has announced that it will raise the price of text messages by 5 cents starting March 2nd. The hike will result in customers paying 20 cents per message. Sprint Nextel became the first U.S. carrier to charge 20 cents per message when it raised its rates in October… Continue Reading »