This article has been updated, see below for details. A security researcher has detected and disclosed a new vulnerability on Facebook that allows a third-party to use the social network's...

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Text messages has, as many millions of frequent user know, earned is place as a high value tool despite its relatively low-tech nature in a world increasingly filled with smartphones and tablets. It works on nearly every phone regardless of how smart, or not, it is. It is so ubiquitess and useful that one company launched a service that speifically targets a perceived need in the K-12 school space.


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I am a communication professional, with a bent toward marketing because of the bottom line results it drives. I understand advertising. I understand the value and benefits of it. I even work with my team to recommend it to clients in integrated programs. But I'm not an advertising expert. That's why I was so interested [...]

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One of the "big things" for major non-carrier players to do this year, it seems, is to have a group messaging product in their consumer tools checkbox. Google started things going with the Google+ Huddle group messaging feature (renamed to Messenger this week). Facebook launched Facebook Messenger soon after. And, now, Skype announced its GroupMe group messaging service.


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The thing about disasters is that there is, unfortunately, always a next one. Here's one more tool to add to your disaster preparedness toolkit. FEMA (the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) announced the release of their first app for Android smartphones and tablets.


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Group text and picture messaging looks to become a crowded category as 2011 rolls along. Apple started the ball rolling with the announcement (but not the release) of iMessage earlier this summer as part of its iOS 5 announcement. Google provided Huddle as a the group messaging component of Google+ apps for iOS and Android. Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android soon followed.Next up? Samsung announced their own worldwide messaging service that they claim works across all major smartphone and fe [...]

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Google Voice messaging.AT&T Wireless currently has two text messaging plans.1. $10 per month gets you 1,000 messages.
2. $20 per month gets you unlimited messages.Guess which option is going to disappear in a few days?


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One of the technologies that we are all used to and use on a daily basis is the humble text message. We have all been using it for about 15 years. It has changed the way we communicate. But for the first time in its history the text message is under serious pressure for a whole range of competitors. The emergence of the smart phone, 3G networks and a range of new apps mean that SMS is feeling the heat and could be eliminated within the next 3 to 5 years. The carriers do still have a lot of trump [...]

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Image courtesy of PocketNow.When I asked my friend Adam Lein, of Pocket Now, what he feature in Windows Phone "Mango" stood out the most to him, he said that speech recognition was the big winner for him. Microsft apparently concurs with Adam's opinion because they wrote about this in the official Windows Phone blog and featured Adam's video demonstration (see below).Look who’s talking: Speech in MangoMicrosoft calls Mango's speech recognition feature voice-to-text. It focuses primarly on messag [...]

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Google's latest attempt to crack the social network market launched on June 28. And, Google+ has been a source of constant coverage and change since then. Its Android app was updated again this week and includes 11 enhancements and new features.


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One of Google+'s main components is Huddle. Huddle is a group messaging component that can essentially replace text messages for Google+ users. People who do not use Google+ can still be part of the message group via traditional text messages.Google apparently thinks this feature is so important that they automatically install an app shortcut icon in the Android programs list. It is simply labeled "Huddle" and uses the g+ icon.The second screenshot here shows the Google+ Androi [...]

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Guest post from Chris Sietsema, who teaches and trains small to medium-sized businesses and non-profits in the disciplines of search, social media, email marketing and online analytics.  Chris owns Teach to Fish Digital, a one-man consultancy in beautiful Mesa, Arizona.  He also created the infographics for The NOW Revolution. A common challenge for us is

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Guest post from Chris Sietsema, who teaches and trains small to medium-sized businesses and non-profits in the disciplines of search, social media, email marketing and online analytics.  Chris owns Teach to Fish Digital, a one-man consultancy in beautiful Mesa, Arizona.  He also created the infographics for The NOW Revolution. A common challenge for us is

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Guest post from Chris Sietsema, who teaches and trains small to medium-sized businesses and non-profits in the disciplines of search, social media, email marketing and online analytics.  Chris owns Teach to Fish Digital, a one-man consultancy in beautiful Mesa, Arizona.  He also created the infographics for The NOW Revolution. A common challenge for us is

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