SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2003 / 11 / 18

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This sounds so coo

A must read, Clive Thompson's article for the The New York Times Magazine, entitled Remote Possibilites, which looks into some of the many (weird) ways today's mobile phones are used:

-- As teleportation devices : Wiring your house so that it can be remotely manipulated by mobile phone -- turning kitchen appliances on and off from the supermarket, for exampl

Residents of Kuala Lumpur can now notify the police via the short messaging service (SMS) when they are away for the Hari Raya so that the police can patrol their houses, according to Utusan Malaysian Onlin

The venerable Britannica Concise Encyclopedia is now available as a mobile software program for a variety of mobile devices, reports InfosyncWorl

"The emergence of cyber-bullies has coincided with what Glenn Stutzky, a school safety violence specialist, calls the rise of the "always-connected" generation -- teens who have grown up with computers and the Interne

Two telemarketing-industry trade groups have asked federal regulators to shield companies who accidentally call cellphones due to the onset of number portability, a potential back door to wireless telemarketing, according to the WS

An inmate who used a jail telephone to impersonate Hollywood executives and dupe Nextel Communications out of more than 1,000 cell phones was sentenced Monday to more than 11 years in prison, according to 1010Win

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