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Spy application now available for BlackBerry

by Heather Wood on Oct 26, 2009 at 11:38 AM

Retina-X Studios has announced the immediate release of their software, Mobile Spy.  Mobile Spy will now be usable on RIM BlackBerry devices, after previously being launched for iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian smartphones.  Features of Mobile Spy include the ability to monitor GPS locations, text message history and call logs… Continue Reading »

Text messaging to blame in Boston trolley collision

by Sue Walsh on May 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM

A MBTA trolley slammed into the back of another one in downtown Boston last night, injuring 100 and sending 49 to the hospital.  In what MBTA officials called an outrage, the driver of the trolley that caused the crash admitted he had been texting his girlfriend at the time and… Continue Reading »

AT&T gives US text addicts four new QWERTY phones

by Arnold Zafra on Oct 15, 2008 at 07:47 AM

According to a recent study conducted by Nielsen, cell phone users are becoming more active in using their mobile phones for texting rather than calling.  And in AT&&‘s second quarter earnings report, it was found out that the volumes of text messaging done by its subscribers have tripled from the… Continue Reading »

China monitoring Skype messages

by Sue Walsh on Oct 2, 2008 at 10:37 AM

Researchers in Canada have discovered that Skype’s Chinese venture with Tom Online, called Tom-Skype, is filtering text chats and monitoring them.  Chats are routinely scanned for politically censored keywords.  If any are found, those chats and personal information are stored on insecure and publiclly accessible servers.  They are encrypted, but… Continue Reading »

Block pestering SMS messages with AT&T

by Renay San Miguel on Jun 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM

Just because you’re living la vida digital shouldn’t mean that all your digital hassles have to follow you wherever you go, like a stray dog or (worse yet) Rupert Pupkin, Jerry Lewis’ deranged fan in Martin Scorsese’s “King of Comedy.” Text-message spam is merely a 21st-century example of the annoying… Continue Reading »

Nuance Voicemail to Text converts voice messages to text

by Arnold Zafra on Apr 3, 2008 at 05:57 PM

The voice-to-text conversion service industry is not yet too crowded, so I guess there’s room for one more player in Nuance Communications’ VoiceMail to Text service for converting voicemail into a readable text. Nuance’s Voicemail to Text service is a network dependent mobile service that allows users to read voice… Continue Reading »

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