With carriers ending support for premium SMS in mid-January, premium content providers and wireless carriers are exploring alternatives for monetizing mobile users, including direct carrier billing.

Europe s wireless Internet has proven a graveyard for hype. WAP was crap, and the dream of lucrative 3G services lured carriers to the brink of bankruptcy. But now there s a service that s actually ...

Any startups out there seeking to build a business by setting out to confuse as many users as possible with overly complex pricing structures, while tricking those who can’t afford the full-fat ...

Bad Android apps frequently sign unsuspecting users up for premium rate SMS services. When you receive your cell phone bill, you see unexplained charges from unknown services. Cancelling these premium ...

Telstra & Optus clamp down on premium SMS shonks Both Telstra and Optus have selected US based specialist WMC Global to monitor mobile premium SMS services advertising and SMS message flows during ...

Attackers can force mobile phones to send premium-rate SMS messages or prevent them from receiving messages for long periods of time by leveraging a logic flaw in mobile telecommunication standards.

Telstra has announced it will act as an advocate for customers upset at receiving unwanted text messages from operators of premium SMS services. The telco said that from mid-May its telephone ...

The settlements of the class action suits brought against popular television shows such as American Idol and Deal or No Deal further strengthen the requirement to offer equivalent value when charging ...

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 ...

Ron loves everything related to technology, design, and Google. He always wants to talk about "the big picture" and what's next for Android, and he's not afraid to get knee-deep in an APK for some ...

Just a botched copy-protection feature of the original game… The 'Trojan' SMS dialler infecting mobile phones running pirate copies of the "Mosquitos" game is not actually a Trojan at all but rather a ...

Google has ejected 50 apps from its Google Play store that were harboring mobile malware dubbed ExpensiveWall. Google has ejected 50 apps from its Google Play store that were harboring mobile malware ...