How often do you receive a text message from a number or short-code that you don’t know? If it’s a general “what are you doing this weekend?” and you don’t have the number saved, not knowing who you are texting back can be troubling… what if it’s someone you don’t want to communicate with??? (try PrivacyStar’s reverse lookup feature!) [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Last week, CTIA released their year-end semi-annual survey of the state of the wireless industry, revealing some interesting and some would say surprising results. For one, capital investment reached an all-time high in 2012; carriers invested more than $30 billion in 2012, accounting for a quarter of all wireless investments in the world. Active wireless [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →A few tidbits from the mobilesphere we found interesting this week: PrivacyStar’s new updated app featured on AndroidApps.com! ATT beefs up its 4G LTE in 15 new locations (including Mountain Home, Arkansas!) By the end of 2013, Informa estimates that 41 billion OTT messages will be sent every day, compared with an average of 19.5 [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →After announcing plans of the merger back in October, T-Mobile & Metro PCS have officially sealed the deal- with a 26/74 percent ownership split between the shareholders. The deal was approved by the FTC and Justice Department back in March and is expected to close by May 1. We have radically changed our business model and launched [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →An Iowa telemarketing firm made a BIG mistake last week after calling on who they thought was an innocent 73 lady… The telemarketer informed the “lady” that she was calling on behalf of “A Child’s Dream Foundation,” located in Iowa, to raise money for sick kids in Iowa, and that most of the money went to the [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Stephanie Eidelman of InsideArm recently posted an interesting article on the definition of “repeated or continuous contact by a debt collector”. First, she states the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act concerning harassment or abuse: A debt collector may not engage in any conduct the natural consequence of which is to harass, oppress, or abuse any person [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →It is no secret that we are and have always been big fans of the BlackBerry. We built our very first PrivacyStar app for the BlackBerry and have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new Z10, in hopes of it bringing the BlackBerry back. But while it has so far experienced promising sales numbers, [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here’s another great article on our humble but tech-happy hometown, this time from Arkansas Business, Conway: Arkansas’ Tech Job Magnet. Reporter Luke Jones talked with both Brad Lacy of the Conway Chamber of Commerce and our neighbor Rick Howe, CEO of Inuvo, on what makes Conway the place to be for so many technical jobs… [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →We love cool moms, and no mom is cooler than Jeana Tahnk of CoolMomTech! Jeana just posted a review on our reverse lookup tool and the Lookup+ iPhone app: How to get rid of unwanted cell phone calls? Lookup+ to the rescue. Does that 947 number keep calling but you have no idea who it is? [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Very proud of our customer support manager and Apple guru, Luke Irvin, for his team’s 3rd place win at StartUp Weekend Little Rock last weekend!
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