SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2003 / 08 / 22

During last week's massive power blackout in the Eastern US, mobile phone service was unavailable for many -- but according to this article, text messsage services remained largely functional:

"Even when phone calls fail to get through, text messages can make their way over the network

Tech design guru Jakob Nielsen's latest column, Mobile Devices: One Generation From Useful, explores usability factors in mobile devices:

New mobile devices show a huge improvement over previous generations, but they're still not good enough to score a real wi