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 [...]
TeleFlip: TeleFlip has always been a favorite way to send ‘free’ texts via email: ‘phone number’@teleflip.com. They still offer that service which they now call FlipOut, but they are also trying to turn their technology into a working business. I haven’t been able to test the new service yet (shown at DEMO), which is supposed [...]
There’s a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your iPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari. The two-step trick is even simpler to the one used in the past to gain access to [...]
As you know, AT&T is the exclusive carrier for Apple’s iPhone, which means they can pretty much jack up the prices of service to whatever they damn well please. Right now, AT&T is charging 20 cents per text message you send or receive. Let’s do a little bit of math.
One text message can’t exceed [...]
“How could detectives be so naive as to think I sent out hate messages against the Kikuyu, through a Kikuyu, yet I’m even married to one?’ That must have been the question in Emmanuel Siundu Waya’s mind one sunny morning soon after he received a call from somebody claiming he had a letter for him.
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SpinVox, basedin Chile announced today the launch of the first voice-to-text service in Latin America, available to all MOVISTAR Chile subscribers on contract.
SpinVox converts voice messages into text and delivers them directly to the recipient as an SMS on their mobile phone. Subscribers not only see the full message content, but also the caller [...]
In Toronto, almost 1,200 people came together to play a giant game of capture the flag. Everybody was equipped with Wifi and communicated through SMS messaging throughout the event. Each team got different colored glow sticks so you could tell friends from enemies, but I’m impressed with the communication aspect of this, being able to [...]
