SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2003 / 02

Wired report on a wireless service in Singapore (where mobile penetration is greater than 75 percent - it's 51 percent in the US) encouraging young citizens to talk about sex, in a «Sex in the Air campaign» initiated by Action for AID

Wired report on a wireless service in Singapore (where mobile penetration is greater than 75 percent - it's 51 percent in the US) encouraging young citizens to talk about sex, in a «Sex in the Air campaign» initiated by Action for AID

You have to hand it to the porn industry for continuously coming up with ingenius applications for mobile device

You have to hand it to the porn industry for continuously coming up with ingenius applications for mobile device

Mobile phone companies are turning to pornographic content in a bid to recoup the billions they have spent on third generation licence

With the huge success of blogging, emerges a new trend, to blog on the g

Text messaging is being used as a way to raise money, it's fast and easy and the (small) amount is charged directly to the donator's phone bil

In February, the excellent TheFeatur

On February 5, Nokia officially launched the N-Gage game deck, the first handheld game system to deliver wireless multiplayer gameplay both locally and over the global networ

Supafly is yet another cell phone game from Swedish company, It's Alive! the first game to mix virtual characters, wireless phones and the Interne

Pervasive gaming is the vision of Swedish company It's Alive!, meaning location-based games that surround you, 24 hours a day, everywher

On December 3, 1992, an engineer named Neil Papworth sent the very first SMS with "MERRY CHRISTMAS" on it, to his collegeagues at Vodafone in Great Britai

It's not just a fad, the new edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (the highest grammatical compendium of the English language) has included the idiom "SMS" as well as some helpful definitions : B4 (before), BBL (be back later), BCNU (be seeing you), CUL8R (see you later), HAND (have a nice day

If you have trouble deciphering a text message, check out transL8it!, the first SMS dictionary, launched last yea

This is not news, because it occured in 2002, but it's a wonderful example of how SMS can be used to promote a new movi

Mobile phones damage key brain cells and could trigger the early onset of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study conducted by researchers at Lund University in Sweden

Radiation from cell phones damages areas of the brain associated with learning, memory and movement, and could trigger the early onset of Alzheimer's diseas

A recent study conducted by Upoc and Frank

At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes in February, Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens announced that they are working on a standard for adding walkie-talkie features in mobile phone

Subscribers to Verizon Wireless were able to vote on the Most Valuable Player in the National Basketball Association's All-Star gam

West Midlands Police of Breat Britain launched a mobile phone text-messaging service for the deaf in July 200

Twelve students were accused of cheating during an exam at the University of Maryland by receiving the answers by SMS from friends outside the classroo

PC Magazine reports on a recent study published by Telephia/Harris Interactiv

According to an article in The Guardian, British operators who have been tracking mobile phone use of picture messaging since its launch last year, have identified the emergence of a new style of communication it calls "slanguage", a new form of slang based on a combination of visual, aural and emotional prompt

Two thieves have been jailed in Italy after being identified from a mobile phone text pictur

CamBlog (Camera Weblog) is a service that enables you to publish photos from your cell phone, mobile device or from your hard disk and store them onlin

On February 17, London initiated a new plan to ease traffic congestion which cripples the city, "bringing into operation the largest congestion charging scheme the world has ever seen", according to the Mayo