Homeland Security Spells Out Coming Online Threats - The top Internet threats for 2006 will include more attacks through instant messages and cell phones, as well as a boost in identity hacks against online brokerage accounts, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance predicted Wednesday.



By joining forces, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) hope to give consumers time to put additional protection in place on their PCs.



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Ping Mobile Launches the Revolutionary PingRewards™ Mobile Coupon Service - Ping Mobile LLC. announced today the commercial launch of the company’s flagship PingRewards™ Service, which sends registered users mobile coupons and vouchers from their favorite retail stores directly to their mobile phones in the form of SMS’s, or “text messages.” [PRWEB Feb 23, 2006]... [Blog Digger SMS Feed]

CollegeHumor.com Partners with Proteus and Rights Group to Bring Exclusive Web and Busted Tees Content to Mobile Phones (PR Web via Yahoo! News) - Washington D.C. (PRWEB) February 23, 2006 -- Proteus, Inc. [MMS Phone]

What are the dangers of text messaging? (ABC 13 Texas) - Text messaging has become so popular that it poses its own unexpected public problem. [Text Messaging]

Early-warning text messaging system for schools - New child protection measures are to be introduced in West Lothian schools following the Rory Blackhall murder, reports the BBC. "Council plans, expected to be agreed next week, will bring in playground supervisors and an early-warning text messaging system for parents. All schools will systematically text or phone parents by 0945 GMT if children are absent without explanation. If parents fail to reply to the text by 1030 GMT, councils will carry out a risk assessment. Care workers and if necessary the police, may then be brought in. " [Textually.org]

Messaging Service offers worldwide SMS delivery. (ThomasNet) - Clickatell Wholesale service enables mobile messaging companies and businesses to access direct SMS delivery without establishing their own direct connections with mobile network operators. Delivering network of world-wide interconnections, solution provides mobile aggregators, resellers, and content providers with access to global bulk SMS delivery.



The new service means that mobile messaging companies and large businesses can now access reliable, direct SMS delivery without a large, upfront investment in infrastructure or establishing their own direct connections with mobile network operators. SMS can reach more people, in more territories around the world than any other technology, including email and instant messaging.



The latest report by Portio Research, "Mobile messaging futures, 2005 - 2010", forecasts that 2.38 trillion SMS messages will be sent in 2010 generating USD 50 billion. Clickatell launched its wholesale service to meet this growing need for quality bulk message delivery. Clickatell Wholesale allows mobile aggregators, resellers and content providers to jumpstart their mobile messaging business with instant access to quality global bulk SMS delivery at competitive wholesale rates.



This robust service is underpinned by Clickatell Wholesale's carrier-grade short message service centre (SMSC) infrastructure allowing SS7-layer message delivery. Easy access to Clickatell's high-end SMSC infrastructure via a variety of common developer interfaces means customers can quickly and easily connect to the gateway with no set-up costs, improved time to market and reduced development costs. The service is supported by Clickatell's 24 x 7 x 365 call centre staff and systems engineers.

Regulators Warn of Text Message Stock Scam - Securities regulators are warning investors about a new twist on the "pump and dump" stock-fraud scam that uses text messaging on cell phones to tout stocks.



The National Association of Securities Dealers, the brokerage industry's self-policing organization, issued an "investor alert" Tuesday advising people to ignore such messages with "hot" stock tips on their cell phones.

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In praise of ... texting - The SMS revolution has opened up an entirely new layer of communication between people with its own codes, language and conventions. It is one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever and all the more remarkable because it was never intended to happen... Not all texting is benign. In Australia texts were recently used to orchestrate racist meetings and in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, there are reportedly 2,800 surveillance centres to monitor traffic. [Textually.org]

BrightCom Announces Version 2.0 Of The Versona Instant Messaging System (PR Web) - BrightCom, Inc., the performance leader in enterprise conferencing, announces the release of version 2.0 of the Versona Instant Messaging System (VIMS). By completely eliminating the cost of a client side deployment and providing full cross-platform support, VIMS made an immediate impact since its release in May of 2004 within the instant messaging market. Version 2.0 extends the feature-rich instant messaging solution that included centralized software management, enterprise class security and directory integration by extending instant messaging with high-quality video. VIMS integration with ClearView video solutions provides instant messaging users to immediately share high-quality video and audio through their instant messaging client at a fraction of the cost of traditional video conferencing solutions.

With version 2.0 of VIMS, instant messaging users are no longer bound by communicating only with text. Clicking one button immediately connects users into a high-quality video conference requiring very little bandwidth.

Other features in addition to high-quality video included in version 2.0 of VIMS include:

Stored Messages - Users have the ability to send messages to off-line users via the stored messages feature.

File Transferring - Easily transfer files to users with the click of a button.