A not-so-secret secret about theoretical SMS and network security has surfaced lately and demands a response. As Bruce Schneier reports, several researchers have published a paper showing that one can theorectically deny cellular voice service over a network using a relatively small scale SMS-based DoS attack. The researchers estimate 165 SMS messages per second could […]
Tips and tricks for using MIDP 2.0’s Push capabilities via SMS. Read all about it in my java.net blog.
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Passing this along for talent scout Kelley Zwisler of Goldstone Partners: MOBILE APP DEVELOPER (IOS, Android, Windows Mobile) A3 Media Network is an international company whose customers include the largest mobile companies around the world and customers of their app stores. We create mobile apps, TV apps and mobile websites that bring our huge library […]
This is the sixth and final installment in my multi-part series comparing alternative payment systems to the PayPal X Platform and each other. Part one introduced Amazon’s Flexible Payments Service, part two discussed Facebook Credits, part three focused on Google Checkout, part four examined Dwolla, and part five explained mobile payment options, especially the Square […]
This is the fifth installment of my multi-part series comparing alternative payment systems to the PayPal X Platform and each other. Part one introduced Amazon’s Flexible Payments Service, part two discussed Facebook Credits, part three focused on Google Checkout, and part four examined Dwolla. This time we’re going to consider two leading mobile card reader […]
I’m writing an ongoing series of posts on Mobile, Social, and Local technologies, collectively “MoSoLo“. Previously I’ve covered the rise of web APIs, Facebook (history and openess, social plugins, Open Graph, and the Graph API), web API power tools for programming bliss including YQL for PayPal transactions, data markets, REST+JSON, and more. In this post […]
In the first installment of this series, I introduced the concept of data markets. I outlined the types of markets and their main features, and then highlighted four of the major data market players. In this article, I’ll show you how to go about choosing markets to use and then extracting data from them. Comparing […]
As I noted in the first post of my new series on third party APIs, there has been an explosion in the number of web APIs available for our use. We’re now in the thousands of publicly available APIs, and the number continues to rise so fast that it’s hard to keep up with what’s […]
My recent post on Intuit giving away free mobile credit card readers for smartphones has received a decent amount of reader comments via back-channel discussion. My mention of PayPal Mobile SMS payments near the bottom of the post seemed to draw particular attention. One of my readers, Peter Mancini (a former colleague from my days […]
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