If you’re a resident of Montreal, Que., chances are you’re one of the most targeted people to receive text messaged spam on your phone – and you may have gotten more than usual
Published on: June 20th, 2014
Candice So
@candice_so
Canada's regulations to limit unwanted email messages from businesses have been four years in the making, but if organizations representing the business community get their way, it could unravel much faster than that.
It's a universal truth for marketers - to reach your audience, you have to be where they are. And with texting and smartphones becoming such a ubiquitous part of consumers' lives, with billions
Published on: March 21st, 2014
Candice So
@candice_so
As Twitter celebrates its eighth anniversary, it's also busy fighting efforts to censor the social media service in Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan banned Twitter yesterday in the wake of a corruption
Just before the holidays, we launched Mind the App, a new video series created by Andrew Love, our video production specialist. The series will highlight the best of what app stores everywhere have
Published on: January 3rd, 2014
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
About 200 Android apps hosted on Google Play are generating fake SMS messages that could pose a major security risk, Symantec is warning. As detailed in our source story from Computerworld, thefake texts
Here are more tips on how to make good use of Google Chrome and Google Voice.Narrow your Google searchesLike many folks, I rely heavily on Google Search; I probably use it dozens of
Has your business been burned by group buying?When the social-based marketing scheme broke out over a couple of years ago, group buying created a lot of buzz. But the trend also resulted in
Published on: May 8th, 2012
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
Mobile sex, well at least exchanging sexually suggestive messages on our smartphones, is a favourite past time it seems. It’s called sexting.Text dirty to me The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned
Published on: April 20th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
Facebook on Monday denied a news report accusing the company of reading text messages on Android devices, but said it is running a "limited" test of new features that may require the company
Published on: February 27th, 2012
Jeremy Kirk
@itbusinessca
Google is yanking a number of apps from the Android Market after discovering that they are fraudulent. Although such apps are more likely to be found with Android than on rival platforms, the
Published on: December 15th, 2011
Tony Bradley
@itbusinessca
A new Android Trojan program that poses as an SMS management application is sending text messages to predefined premium-rate numbers in Europe and Canada, according to security researchers from Kaspersky Lab.Credit-stealing Trojans that
Published on: November 29th, 2011
Lucian Constantin
@itbusinessca
The Android mobile operating and the BYOD (bring your own device) trend – a marriage made in heaven. For app-hungry users probably, but the combination could be malevolent mix for some workplace IT
Published on: August 30th, 2011
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
We love to text. We just hate paying for it.First, with apologies to Celine Dion, let’s talk about love: ouraddiction to texting is a global phenomenon.Canadians send a staggering 199 million text messages
