Michael Gracie 

A couple of burgers and salads, and a few soft drinks…uh, I’ve already lost the receipt (and I already threw the punchline out in the title anyway).
I grabbed lunch with Alex King earlier today, the original idea being picking his brain on some Wordpress stuff I’m tooling around with (as well as paying my respects [...]

Someone asked this question of Fred Wilson, and I am still looking for a solid answer myself. But I did do some digging.
I signed up for twitter, and did one post. I subsequently made my page private until I could figure the thing out. I installed the twitter plugin for this blog [...]

Pundits have been saying that mobile spam was right around the corner for quite a while ago. The purported presence of it in Europe and Asia aside, I haven’t heard much else about it. Maybe that is because I am a dumb American who doesn’t know how to type on that little keypad [...]

Blackberry, crackberry, smackberry – I don’t care what the brand or connotation is, you have to have a web-capable phone. Or at least a short-messaging plan. Why?
You know when you are away from your computer, you could miss one of those great stock tips that hits your inbox. Luckily for you, with [...]

Funny that China is a communist country, and yet all I ever hear is how rich everyone over there is getting. Maybe it is the massive flow of capital leaving the US, or maybe it is just that spammers have opted out of wired email punishment, and gone directly to mobile spam.
The Chinese are [...]

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Cell phone subscribers in the Phillipines have – it is the latest in SMS spam. While this article points out a number of different scams perpetrated by those who responded to [...]

I have heard this new acronym “SPIM” used in a variety of contexts. First it is spam over instant messaging, then it morphs into spam over cell phones, and now it is the combination of the two. I don’t know if we will ever learn what exactly “SPIM” is, but you can be [...]

South Koreans are about to receive less spam on their cell phones if their government’s plans take hold. According to this press release, fines for unsolicited cell phone calls, land-line calls, faxes, and short messages could hit roughly $30K per violation. The new opt-in only rulings don’t effect email, but don’t you fret. [...]

Once again, the big companies are at it. But this time, they get hammered. Turns out, a mobile phone operator in Denmark sent out a bunch of SMS spam, supposedly as “a test”. With MSNBC it was a “mistake”; with these guys, “a test”. Well they got fined, as they should.

SMS just won’t make it in America, if things proceed on their present course. The reason being, we are just to trusting to newfangled service providers. That should be a good thing, but those same service providers are often the ones using every means possible to get your business, even if it means [...]