Facebook has set up partnerships with a number of mobile network operators to provide customers with free or cut-price data access to Facebook messaging.
The reduced prices - described as a ‘promotion’ by Facebook - will be available via the Facebook Messenger iOS and Android applications as well as the Facebook for Every Phone app for Java-enabled handsets.
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Person-to-person money transfers available via BBM in Indonesia
Indonesian financial institution PermataBank has joined forces with BlackBerry and mobile money specialist Monitise to launch BBM Money.
This pilot scheme will let customers set up a mobile money account from their BlackBerry smartphone and make real-time payments to any BBM contacts who have also signed up to the service.
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New figures from messaging threat protection specialists Cloudmark have revealed that text message spammers used more than 350,000 unique SMS spam variants in 2012.
December saw the widest variety, with more than 53,000 different variants received worldwide.
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Facebook has enhanced the iOS version of its Messenger application to enable users in the USA to speak to each other without paying call charges.
The VoIP feature was originally launched in Canada earlier this month.
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Over one billion people will have used their mobile devices for banking by the end of 2017, according to a new
Juniper Research report. That’s more than 15% of the global subscriber base - and is a substantial increase from this year’s expected total of just over 590 million mobile banking users.
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