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 [...]
My first few days of reminders from Google Calendar came via my carrier’s email to SMS gateway. After a few days, I noticed that the reminders were being sent from SMS short code 48368. Being of the adventurous sort (and having an unlimited SMS plan), I wondered if I could send a Text Message (SMS) [...]
For the second quarter of 2008, U.S. mobile subscribers sent and received on average 357 text messages per month, compared with making and receiving 204 phone calls a month. The new statistic is a clear indication that Americans have jumped onto the SMS text bandwagon.
In the first quarter of 2006, Americans sent and received [...]
Good news for junk food junkies - Dominos is offering pizza by via SMS. Just go to your phone and send a text message. Your pizza will then arrive from one of Dominos’470 outlets just as you’ve dozed off in the armchair.
There are a couple of safeguards. First, you’ll need to register your full [...]
This might be a new world record. A man in India has apparently found a way to send almost 200,000 text messages in a single month! Web News India reports that a gentleman from Ludhiana (India) found a unique way for getting his name registered in the Guinness Book of World Records. He sent 182,689 [...]
