SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2003 / 11 / 10

The Washington Post has an interesting article on MLotto and how companies plan on using them for advertising as well as the legitimate fear voiced by consumer advocates, that once a customer uses a code "to snag a coupon, that cell-phone number could go on a list and be sold to telemarketers, making the cell phone just another target for junk solicitations

Mobile phone users will this week be able to play lottery and gambling games anywhere they can receive a signal as T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile phone arm, launches the UK's first lottery games on mobile phone

I have to admit, I'm somewhat embarrased to be posting this, but here goe

The number of mobile-phone users in China is expected to double by 2007 to 500 million from a current 250 millio

According to the Straits Times, Islamic preachers with poster boy looks and pop star styles are winning legions of fans in Indonesi

Aloysius Choong for C/Net Asia, has a must read article on a new SMS terminolgy and trend: IMP

Aloysius Choong writes about the way he grew up, in a mediated, multimedia, and interactive environmen

In yet another crime prevention scheme, The Bromley Police Station in south-east London has just launched a new text alert system for cab drivers, giving them descriptions of suspects or getaway vehicles, soon after the crim

Just a reminder really, to be careful on the roa

A Sydney-based IT company, Itaba3, offers a service that makes it possible for any merchant, including the self-employed, to accept and process credit card payments using any mobile phon

The push-to-talk arena just became a bit more crowded and a lot more competitive thanks to the debut of Kodiak Networks , a technology vendor with some high-profile backers and an innovative take on the instant-chat phenomenon that Nextel Communications In

Not something handset manufacturers will want to hea

have to apologize for posting yet another explosive Nokia battery story, but this time, a Belgian consumer organisation, Test-Aankoop, is claiming that three of Nokia's batteries (BML-3, BMC-3 and BLC-2) are not protected against short-circuitin