SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2003 / 12 / 08

Slate has an interesting piece on cell phone jammers, picked up by Mike Masnick on Techdir

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A "Blind Text" dating game on an Irish an afternoon radio show - originally conceived by DJ Sonya Mac to amuse listeners stuck in home-coming traffi

Reinforcing it's drive to become a major participant in the mobile Internet, Microsoft's MSN Mobile service has launched a new 'fun' SMS based service, MagicTxt (functional intitially only on certain Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets), according to the Inquire

This article in IOL is about the the World Summit on the Information Society, opening in Geneva on Wednesday, "aiming to reduce the digital divide between rich and poo

This article in IOL is about the the World Summit on the Information Society, opening in Geneva on Wednesday, "aiming to reduce the digital divide between rich and poo

SMS Israel, a Jerusalem-based instant news provider has officially launched a subscriber service in North America, according to Israel 21

SMS services have boomed in Australia, with 4 billion messages sent every year, reports The Herald Su

Microsoft on Monday plans to introduce a “club” service for AT&T Wireless subscribers who own a Motorola cell phone running the software giant’s operating system, reports New

NTT DoCoMo has developed a test model of a cell phone that offers both its superfast third-generation mobile service and a wireless local area network Internet phone service, according to SiliconValle

By October 2003, China's cellular phone popularity had reached an average of 1