Mobile Spam
Mobile Spam
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New Messaging Solution Helps Companies Avoid Spamming
Everyone hates spam, so everyone is going to love what the team at iconectiv is up to. MMW learned Monday that iconectiv is behind a new push to safeguard brand reputations by slashing their association with spam. As consumers increasingly rely upon text messaging for...
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DialogTech Launches SpamSentry for Businesses to Block Spam Calls
DialogTech , provider of the only end-to-end call attribution and conversion platform for “data-driven marketers,” has just announced the release of SpamSentry as part of the DialogTech Voice360 platform. SpamSentry is an adaptive, machine-learning application that stops fraudulent and unwanted calls before they reach a company’s sale team and prevents spam call data from appearing … Read More
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Is Google’s Better at Catching (and Ditching) Spam Gmail? Looks Like It
It looks like Google has figured out how to eliminate what we hate: spam email. The company recently said that less than 0.1 percent of email in the average Gmail inbox is spam, while wanted mail in spam folders is under 0.05 percent. “According to Google, it’s the result of using its artificial neural network … Read More
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Fighting Robocalls: New ‘Smart Blocking’ Tracks and Blocks Spam Calls
YouMail, a provider of cloud-based telecommunication services, has upgraded its free iPhone app to show users how many robocall and spoofed-number calls it has blocked for them. The announcement comes just as FCC members are considering whether tougher robocall services are a good idea. YouMail is an app for both Apple and Android-based smartphones. It … Read More
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Not All Popcorn and Skittles in Theater Biz: AMC Chain Accused of Text Spam Violations
Are consumers giving out their phone numbers in exchange for free popcorn or soda coupons — and then forgetting they did so? Or are companies abusing SMS capabilities and pestering people? The answers to those questions may prove critical when Minnesota jurists consider a lawsuit in Minnesota lobbed at the AMC theater chain. Andria Addison … Read More
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What’s Up? Mobile Spam on WhatsApp
The unnerving trend of mobile spam proliferation has found its way to WhatsApp in no short supply. The latest research from AdaptiveMobile shows an alarming rate of spam targeting the hugely popular mobile messaging platform, particularly across Europe and India. In effect, the spam explosion comes as the latest evidence of spammers moving away from … Read More
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T-Mobile Topples Recent SMS Spam Distribution
In recent days, an unknown number of T-Mobile customers made noise across social media and on various online message boards about the sudden influx of spam text messages hitting their mobile devices. The carrier, we’re happy to report, has managed to identify the source of the problem and stop it in its tracks. The problem … Read More
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Mobile Users Want Travel Trust, Ignore Spammy Ads and Irrelevant Pitches
No one wants to fly on Spam Airlines. Or to have any doubts that their purchases are safe and secure. As a result, it should come as no surprise that “resistance to spam and irrelevant messages are two reasons why mobile consumers fail to engage with mobile travel ads,” according to the researchers behind a … Read More
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mobileStorm Boss Explains How to Get Rid of SMS Spammers
SMS spammers are every bit as irritating as they are plentiful. And Jared Reitzin, the CEO of mobileStorm, is fed up with it. “Anyone else get super annoying SMS spam trying to sell sunglasses?” Reitzin asks in a recent post to the Digital Marketing Blog, the official blog of mobileStorm. Read More
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Yahoo (Surprise) Opposes Revival of Spam Lawsuit by Miffed Consumer
When a lawsuit against Yahoo was dismissed by US District Court Judge Michael Baylson, you can bet that the Internet behemoth was relieved that the judge sided with them in saying that they had not violated any Telephone Consumer Protection Act laws. Those laws specifically prohibit the use of auto dialers to send SMS messages … Read More
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