SMS

Clickatell today announced a Short Message Service (SMS) for small businesses that costs only $25 a month for 1,000 messages, a drastic reduction in price compared to its earlier version.

We'll see if this actually happens -- and I'm not convinced it will, for reasons I'll get into below -- but according to an article in GigaOM, carrier T-Mobile USA intends to implement a toll on businesses of up to one cent per text message sent to their customers. The "Twitter tax" is slated to begin on Oct. 1, writes GigaOM's Colin Gibbs.

Smartphones are expensive. Ordinary, "dumb" cell phones are cheap. The trade-off is that basic candy-bar phones are inferior and no fun, and they can't perform highfalutin tasks such as play Super Monkey Ball. Well, that's what you thought.

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.

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

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