When AT&T switched to Cingular the price of sending a message dropped to 5 cents, but they started charging for incoming texts - also 5 cents. Assuming you send a message for every message you receive, this works out at about the same price as before.
AT&T came back online and phased out the CIngular [...]
I’ve been getting phone calls and text messages from aggregators across the country who can’t quite believe that, from 1st November 2008, Verizon will apply a $0.03 transaction fee on every outgoing text message through it’s network.
Effective November 1, 2008, Verizon will assess a transaction fee of $0.03 for every MT message processed on [...]
Metrolink officials Saturday put the blame squarely on the engineer of the train for the deadly crash that has claimed at least 25 lives. They say he ran a red light. But a group of local teenage train enthusiasts who knew the engineer well, doubt that he was to blame.
They called their friend professional [...]
In what air accident investigator John Hughes described in his report yesterday as a “serious incident”, the twin-engined Piper plane lost all on-board electrical power, communications and weather radar soon after take-off from Kerry airport on November 7th last.
He paid tribute to the initiative of the air traffic controller, saying the loss of all aircraft [...]
Can’t help checking your partner’s text messages on the sly? You’re not alone, with an Australian survey showing one in three mobile phone users are text message snoops, and the consequences can often be heart-breaking.
The online survey, conducted for telecoms service provider Virgin Mobile Australia, shows that women are more likely than men to [...]
The command line’s making a comeback, but the terminal window, keyword launcher and search box aren’t the only textual command interfaces’your cell phone has joined the party. More and more modern webapps let you interact with your data via SMS, updating and retrieving your information in the cloud on the go. You don’t need a [...]
Picture the following scenario: you’re driving your normal route to work, minding your own business. Then, out of the corner of your eye, you see that the car next to you started to slowly veer into your lane. You look over and see the driver next to you is busy texting.
How many times has [...]
Pizza Hut joined other pizza chains this week and launched a service that allows people to place their orders on mobile phones. Dominos was the first pizza chain to implement this service, followed by Papa Johns and now, Pizza Hut.
People can sign up for the service at PizzaHut.com and then add their mobile phone [...]
Do you ever go out shopping, to the pub or to the beauty clinic for your fortnightly waxing session and forget to put your Mac to sleep? I know I do, so I thought of a way to do it by sending a text message from my mobile/cell phone - well, technically we’re not going [...]
Apparently a Kawanishi woman was taking her well-being for granted during her daily route to work, as she collided with a man in a subway station whilst texting away at 8:30 in the morning. Subsequently, she plummeted a few feet down onto the subway tracks, only to be saved by a station worker who fearlessly [...]
