In this paper we summarize the findings of our investigation on security issues of Short Message Service (SMS) clients on mobile phones. We realized that firmware updates will not be available on a large scale and thus see filtering of SMS traffic as the only possible counter measure against large scale attacks based on SMS messages. This paper presents our ideas on filtering SMS features by th...

SmithMagenis syndrome (SMS) is a rare disorder with multiple congenital anomalies caused by a heterozygous interstitial deletion involving chromosome 17p11.2, where the retinoic acid-induced 1 (RAI1) gene is located, or by a mutation of RAI1. Approximately 90% of the patients with SMS have a detectable 17p11.2 microdeletion on fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH). SMS is characterized by m...

virtual learning is a new idea that has gotten a new form with the emergence of new technologies such as the wireless networks. the mobile phone (cell phone) is a device that is used by most people nowadays. therefore, one can use the mobile phone for virtual learning on a wide scale. one of the popular and at the same time simple and inexpensive services on the mobile phone is the sms (short m...

The short message service (SMS) technology is one of the most stable mobile technologies around. Most of our tertiary students carry mobile phones with SMS facilities and can be used for teaching and learning. There are many projects of using SMS technologies in education as outlined in the literature review, but many publications do not provide the possible underlying technologies to implement...

Recent interest in university teaching has focused on interactivity in lectures and practical classes, and teachers in several fields have set up systems in which students can interact with the lecturer using mobile-phone-based SMS text messaging. This approach has particular potential in psychology, where students could use SMS messaging as a way of responding in simple psychology experiments ...

Methods We used SMS to collect symptoms and peak flow (PEF) meter readings from children with asthma. Digital PEF meters enabled data download to confirm validity of PEF data sent by SMS. Parents responded to 5 SMS messages daily for 7 days during baseline and for 14 days during a cold. Parents provided written feedback about the SMS-based data collection at the beginning (Q1) and at the end (Q...

In recent years, there has been considerable interest among people to use short message service (SMS) as one of the essential and straightforward communications services on mobile devices. The increased popularity of this service also increased the number of mobile devices attacks such as SMS spam messages. SMS spam messages constitute a real problem to mobile subscribers; this worries telecomm...

ion Phase Verification Phase Apps Permission Event Graph Conformance or counterexamples Policies Approach Overview Case Study: Geotag "Mark location of your photos" Case Study: Geotag "Mark location of your photos" Case Study: Geotag "Mark location of your photos" Case Study: SMS Replicator Secret A spyware that secretly forwards every SMS to another number. Case Study: SMS Replicator Secret A ...

Recently, we have seen an increased use and support of the Sound Description Interchange Format (SDIF), among which the integration of SDIF in widely used environments such as MAX/MSP (Wright, Dudas, Khoury, Wang, Zicarelli, 1999) and MPEG-4 (Wright, Scheirer, 1999). To follow and encourage this trend, we have added support for importing and exporting SDIF files in the latest version of the SMS...