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Monday, 03 December 2012 21:44

Happy Birthday SMS

In the picture above you can see the first mobile phone to receive a text message in history. The message was "Merry Christmas" sent by a computer on the 3rd of December 1992. Neil Papworth from the company Sema Group (now Mavenir Systems) was the sender, using the Vodafone network to transfer it to the mobile Orbitel 901 which was owned by Richard Jarvis, this well known telecommunications company employee. Therefore we can say that today we celebrate the 20th Birthday of SMS (Short Message Service).

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Apple Responds To SMS Flaw By Saying: Use iMessage Instead, Still No Real Fix In Sight

So Apple has responded to the issue with SMS (Short Message System) that appears to heavily affect Apple iPhones. In a statement released to Engadget they sat the following: “Apple takes security very seriously. When using iMessage instead of SMS, addresses are verified which protects against these kinds of spoofing attacks. One of the limitations of SMS is that it allows messages to be sent with spoofed addresses to any phone, so we urge customers to be extremely careful if they're directed to an unknown website or address over SMS.”