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  • Commbank makes SMS NetCode mandatory

    The Commonwealth Bank is expected to push out a two-factor authentication NetCode SMS service to all of its personal banking customers this week.

  • Twitter acquires SMS specialist

    Twitter has acquired Cloudhopper, a provider of mobile phone text messaging infrastructure. Twitter hopes to use the company's expertise to improve the scalability and reach of its SMS (Short Message Service) service, according to a Twitter blog post.

  • Mobile-message start-up pays for ad views

    Wanganui mobile-phone advertising company HooHaa started out in 2007, signed up 20,000 members in just a couple of months and now boasts close to 70,000 members — and has already sent out over one million text messages, says founder Brian Hawker.

  • Online gig guide spreads the word from K Rd

    Startup company Mukuna runs an online guide to live music and DJ gigs in Auckland. But Mukuna is more than a guide; it is also a tool for syndicating music event listings to other websites, says lead programmer and one of the founders of the company, Lisa Salmon.

  • Swiss to vote via SMS

    Residents of the Swiss town of Bulach are using SMS (short message service) to cast votes on a local measure regarding road speed limits. The SMS voting project will be reviewed by the Swiss government, which could decide to roll out the capability across the country.

  • Researchers: SMS attacks could cripple cellphones

    Hackers armed with a moderately sized network of zombie computers theoretically could knock out cellular service throughout the US, say security researchers at Pennsylvania State University. In a report published this week, the researchers explained how such an attack could exploit weaknesses in Short Message Service (SMS), which is used to send and receive text messages between mobile phones.

  • Hang 'em high

    It seems that the smarter services and gadgets get, the stupider they think humans are. User-friendliness can get downright unfriendly when people feel they have lost control — think of all those poor saps who still haven't learnt how to turn off the talking paperclip.

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