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Everything is big in China and so is the SMS spam. According to Nanfang Metropolis News, Focus Wireless, a subsidiary of US listed Focus Media, is sending 230 million text messages every single day, with their “largest SMS spam subsidiary” from Zhengzhou being responsible for 200 million SMS sent per day. Or to put it in other words – a single company sends 80% of all Chinese SMS spam!
I don’t buy Focus Wireless’ VP Ji Hairong words that the company’s loosely controlled subsidiaries may be responsible for the spam. It’s their company and they should get their things together. I don’t know is that a lack of appropriate laws or what, but they should be stopped.
To put numbers in different perspective. Focus Wireless is sending more SMS spam per day then there are people living in Germany, France and UK combined! If that’s not enough for the prison sentence, I don’t know what it is…
[Via: CellularNews, image from MobileNewsPicks]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
