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 details online beforehand and you’ll need to set up a ‘favorite meals’list, which you can text to the shop. So texting ‘hammered’could lead to a large pizza with extra cheese arriving at your door. A regular order for a whole pile of pizzas could be “Boy’s Poker Night Order”, and so on.

Over 2,000 people have already signed up during a trial of the service, but right now Dominos is only testing this service in the United Kingdom, and if it’s successful they could expand it to the United States.

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 SMS in one month.

That makes 6000 text messages a day. Deepak Sharma aims to increase the number to 300,000 in the coming month. Deepak sends messages to all his relatives and friends, who fortunately, fully support in his endeavor.

His wireless operator, Airtel, sent him a 1,411 page bill. If Airtel’s rates are anything like AT&T’s rates, this man will spend the rest of his life paying off his text messaging bills.

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 to be out sometime this month, but they say it forwards your emails to your SMS inbox for free ‘ 5,000 messages for per month. Hopefully they have a good management tool, as email spam can fill an SMS inbox pretty quickly and receiving text fees still apply.

Peekamo: Founded just November 2006 and based in Toronto according to their web site, Peekamo says they are different than other web-based SMS free sites, as both the receiver and sender don’t pay for the message. How do they manage that? ‘ they say ad-sponsored messages, and using a protocol called short message peer to peer, (unlike the more common email-SMS method). When I sent a message from the web site to myself, it was sponsored by Sharp and had a link to Sharp’s web site www.moretosee.com. It’s still in beta, but is adding other social features.

Gizmo SMS: SIPphone has more than its fair share of sweet mobile services like the Gizmo Project, and earlier this month they also added a free web-based SMS service. The service works for dozens of countries and has a model ‘terms of service’ and privacy assurance sections. It’s not rocket science, but shows how these services are easy enough to create that they can be used to market the company’s other money-making solutions.

TxtDrop: TxtDrop founder 22-year-old Nate Kapitanski got some flack over his SMS MySpace widget and web service last year ‘ the site didn’t launch with privacy terms and didn’t have an About section describing the company or its goals. He says the whole thing was a learning experience which helped make the site much better. As a result he added a privacy policy, email blocking, limited the number of messages that could be sent per minute, and says your phone number is now hidden in the MySpace code. Kapitanski, who only works on the project part time, also recently released a Mac OS dashboard SMS widget and says he is working on a Vista text gadget that could be out as early as April. There still isn’t a clear about section, but if you email the info address on the site, Kapitanski will probably oblige you on details you want to know.

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 the phone to install unlocking cards or jailbreak. Fortunately, there’s a way to avoid this obvious security breach until Apple fixes it.

First, password protect your phone and lock it. Then slide to unlock and do this:

Tap emergency call.
Double tap the home button.

Done. You are now in your favorites. This seems like a feature, because you may want to have emergency number in your favorites for quick dial. The security problem here is double. The first: anyone picking up your phone can make a call to anyone in your favorites. On top of that, this also opens access to your full Address Book, the dial keypad, and your voice mail. More.

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 160 bytes of data since you can only send up to 160 characters per text message. A little math will show that 1 megabyte is equal to 1,048,576 bytes, or $1,310.72 dollars.

That math assumes you max out each text message you send. AT&T will charge you twenty cents whether you use all 160 characters, or simply write ‘K’ to your friend. Multiply $1,310.72 by 160 if you really want to freak out. That works out to $209,715 per megabyte.

Other fun: at $5 for 200 text messages you’re paying 2.5 cents per text message. At $15 for 1,500 text messages you’re paying 1 cent per text. All that makes $20 for unlimited texts’when are you ever going to send more than 1,500 text messages in a month seem like a deal, but clearly it’s not.

“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.

He agreed to meet the caller at a hotel on Moi Avenue, Nairobi. Little did he know he was beginning seven months of hell on earth. The caller turned out to be two smartly dressed men who identified themselves as policemen. One, Inspector Jeremiah Kiao, would be the lead investigator.

His accusation? He had sent out a hate SMS disparaging the Kikuyu and President Kibaki on December 30, 2007, the day after President Kibaki was declared the winner by the ECK chairman Samuel Kivuitu. He allegedly urged other communities to gang up and wipe out ‘the Kikuyu mafia’. More.

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 ID, so they can see at a glance who left the message, and then call or text straight back.

SpinVox was created by co-founders Christina Domecq and Daniel Doulton. They launched the company in 2003 and SpinVox services are already available in Europe, North America, Australia and Africa. As well as converting voicemail messages to text for SMS or email delivery, SpinVox has also developed a range of other services — enabled by voice to text conversion, including posting blogs; speaking a text or dictating a memo which is delivered to an email inbox. More.

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 organize and manage your troops through SMS.

Here is some video of the event.

Here is the official site in case you would like to participate during the next one.