Two articles discuss spamming to cell phones from the New York Times:
"Cellphone customers received roughly 4.5 billion spam texts last year, twice as many as in 2009, and remedies to the growing menace are few."
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"The Haggler revisits the subject of cramming -- the act of tacking on an unrequested service fee to a phone bill. Why, he asks, can't cellphone carriers do more to thwart it?"
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Also: "In airports, laptop computers get special attention from the T.S.A. Similar devices don't. The reasons are a mystery."
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NYT Technology Section (index to many tech articles):
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