Frget Txt Msgs: Real E-Mail Comes to More Phones
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MILAN â Mobile e-mail, until recently the exclusive terrain of business executives, is breaking out of its niche market even as cellphone operators remain ambivalent about a service that will cut into their lucrative text messaging market.
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E-mailing your best pal in Thailand or family in Toledo is cheaper than running up a long-distance phone bill. But even brimming with smiley emoticons, text messages lack a certain personal touch.
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By MAY WONG  Instant messages. Text messages. E-mail. Voicemail. Blogs. Online social networks. And the good ol' cell phone. If you thought there were enough ways to communicate with others and express yourself, think again.
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Several Web sites this month began offering software promising ring tones and screen savers for certain cellphones. But those who downloaded the software found that it turned
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Blog: Now you can send text messages to mobile phones from Yahoo Mail and send IMs to people using Windows Live Messenger.
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The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence between two friends. "Check this out!" it read, then listed a Web address.
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Consumers using standard messaging technology can rest assured that their texts are not stored long term. The sexually explicit text-message chat between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide that came to light used a paging technology more akin to e-mail.
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What a headline. I guess we&#39;ve all gotten those Nigerian scam emails haven&#39;t we? I guess it will all stop now. Yeah sure. The last line is great, I think I&#39;ll get my check book out and get ready.
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E-mail, text message or cellphone call? Making contact can be an adventure.
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Bridging the gap Workshop roundup The proliferation of mobile phones has led to a situation in which many professional workers have at least two numbers and two voicemail boxes to juggle.â¦
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NEW YORK, Feb. 15  /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon is warning customers to watch out for a new wave of e-mails that ask consumers to supply personal information on fake Web sites designed to look like legitimate Web sites of Verizon and other major companies.
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Get read for a new kind of unsolicited junk email: audio spam.
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The fight against spam is getting more serious as the net&#39;s big players impose conditions on bulk mail senders. From October, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast want those that send lots of messages
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As people spend more time online &#151; and logged into instant messaging services &#151; it's inevitable that there are times they just can't respond. That's why the "away message" &#151; set up to be sent automatically from someone's account &#151; has become so popular.
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A variation of spam is sliding past spam filters into inboxes, but it&#39;s not likely the new trick will be successful much longer, a security expert said Thursday.The spam messages, urging recipients to buy a stock, have an MP3 audio attachment but no subject line or text, said John Graham-Cumming, an anti-spam consultant and researcher who is based in France.&quot;I think this is the first time we&#39;ve seen this,&quot; said Graham-Cumming, who tracks new kinds of spam.The audio messages, which vary in length, contain a warbled, robotic voice with a British accent encouraging people to invest in Exit Only, a company that owns a Web site, www.Text4Cars.com, which connects vehicle buyers and sells through SMS (Short Message Service). Exit Only says it&#39;s not involved in sending the spam.Graham-Cumming said the spam falls into the category of &quot;pump and dump&quot; fraud. Scammers invest in a company with a low-priced stock and send out a round of spam, causing gullible investors to buy it and increase the stock&#39;s price.As the stock price peaks, fraudsters cash out, which causes the stock to precipitously fall, burning other investors. The practice is illegal.Exit Only was trading around $0.41 on Thursday. Not much detail is available on the company, but it issued a news release on Tuesday heralding the launch of its Text4Cars service in the Los Angeles area. The news release said the company hoped to be fully launched in the United States in early 2008.Exit Only&#39;s CEO, David Dion, said he learned of the spam around Wednesday morning. He has since notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and said his company has nothing to do with the spam run.&quot;I am very distraught by this,&quot; Dion said.Dion said only about 100 shares have been traded so far, so the scam hasn&#39;t been successful.The messages are more annoying than harmful. But there are a variety of defenses e-mail administrators and security companies can employ to stop it, Graham-Cumming said.Spam filters can be configured to cull messages with MP3s, since most companies don&#39;t have a business use for the file type, Graham-Cumming said. Administrators can also change their e-mail server settings to slow down the speed at which they receive messages with MP3 attachments, he said.That method has been proven to frustrate spammers, who typically shut down the connection if the spam isn&#39;t going through quickly enough since the delay consumes valuable bandwidth, Graham-Cumming said.These spam messages are also relatively large -- around 100KB -- compared to other spam, which may be another reason this kind of spam may not be around for long. Spam messages with larger file sizes require more bandwidth to send, meaning spammers can&#39;t send out high volumes of messages, Graham-Cumming said.&quot;Honestly, my prediction is this is going to be around for a while and disappear,&quot; he said.E-mail security company MessageLabs said it was catching about 10,000 spam messages with MP3s per hour since late Wednesday night.
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The wireless e-mail platform works on more than 100 handsets.
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Rumor has it that Google is planning an offline version or its popular Gmail web mail service.