Text Messaging and Security

Evan Schuman chides a firm handling SMS in the United States for storing text messages without security .

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Google Experiments With Messaging in Business Websites

Barry Schwartz gives examples of Google incorporating a text messaging option in experimental advertising it has developed for businesses.
Have you seen "Message this business" prompts when you use Google search?

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Don't Text While Driving

The American Automobile Association asking drivers to pledge to avoid texting while driving . This is the first time I have heard the term "Intexticated."

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Derek Walter suggests secure messaging apps . -DD

IBM Verse

Bob Brown gives readers announcements about IBM's messaging software, Verse . Verse, short for "Converse" creates a message store that responds to faceted search techniques.

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Text (SMS) Phishing

Linda Musthaler writes on How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of SMiShing (SMS phishing) . According to Musthaler "SMS spam campaigns in the U.S. grew by 400 percent in the first half of 2012, and about one-third of all SMS spam includes SMiShing attempts."

According to Michael Cooney's March 7 report in NetworkWorld, the FTC has charged eight companies with sending millions of phishing messages through text messaging.

Joan Goodchild recently wrote an article providing examples of phishing attempts.   Kenneth van Wyk offers some specific advice for avoiding threats in his article "Staying out of the Belly of Internet Beasts" (registration may be required to access this free article).

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Email Is Not Used By Current High School Students

Educator Carl Hooker reports that the majority of his communication is via email, but that most tech-savvy students do not normally check their email. Thus he penned an article titled, "Why Email Should Die."

-DD