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SMS services to make your standard cell phone smart

Forget expensive mobile data plans. With just a $5 monthly text message plan and some free and seriously useful SMS services in your address book, you'll have the most essential elements of the web at your fingertips.



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Apple may patch serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone

Apple may be working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could possibly allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.

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Simple Steps to Hack a Smartphone

Trust Digital, a firm that specializes in mobile security, demonstrates how to hack a smartphone with no more information than a phone number.

| Feature | Mobile & wireless | Security | 05/04/09 at 9:28 am |


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I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you... by text message

Milestone reached: First known instance of divorce by text message in Saudi Arabia.

| News | Offbeat | 04/13/09 at 4:23 pm |


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Security vendors ready fix for 'Curse of Silence' SMS attack

Some Nokia smartphones are vulnerable to a DOS attack that prevents them receiving SMS and MMS messages, a German security researcher demonstrated Tuesday

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