All the stories tagged with: text message
Swedish postal service looks to SMS instead of stamps
03/07/2011, Sweden, the land that brought you the safest cars around as well as flat packed furniture, might soon pave the way for the future of postal service – the country’s postal service is mulling over the possibility of letting customers [...]
SMS thwarts suicide bomber’s attempt
01/27/2011, Egyptian officials might want to get a whiff of this news after blocking off the Internet as well as mobile phone services (that means calls and SMSes) from the masses – an unexpected and unwanted SMS from a telecommunications company [...]
Over 7 trillion SMS to be sent in 2011, according to research
12/30/2010, Ever wonder how many texts messages (SMS) are being sent every year? Well, according to ABI Research, the estimated number of SMS messages that will be sent in 2011 will be 7 trillion. The figures include other similar methods such [...]
FCC Proposes 911 Emergency Service To Be Updated To Support Texting
11/22/2010, The FCC has proposed some major changes to the 911 emergency service as it was stressed that the technological limitations of 911 can have tragic, real-world consequences. The idea is to bring the 911 service into the modern era by [...]
T-Mobile USA Sued For Blocking Text Messages
09/20/2010, Ez Texting, a New York-based company that helps businesses send marketing text messages has sued T-Mobile for allegedly blocking access to the T-Mobile network because one of their clients provided information on medical marijuana. Apparently T-Mobile cut off access to [...]
SMS to unlock in-game weapon for Splinter Cell Conviction
04/27/2010, Ubisoft has whipped up even more attention for its Splinter Cell Conviction game by unveiling a text messaging campaign that offers rewards to mobile marketing subscribers via a special in-game weapon. Relying on Twitter, Facebook and e-mail lists to get [...]
SMS your kitchen via Text Message
04/26/2010, Check out this futuristic kitchen concept known as Text Message that sees integrated mobile technology being included with a range of kitchen appliances, helping you operate them remotely via cellphones. For instance, you can always defrost your refrigerator before you [...]
Palm webOS Hacked Via SMS
04/20/2010, If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you probably already know that Palm is having a rather bad day at the office. Next up is news that Palm’s webOS can be hacked by merely using text messaging. This is [...]
