SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 03 / 31

A university has appealed for grandparents to take party in a study about mobile phone texting, reports ic Southlondo

This year's Flora London Marathon will be the most IT-enabled race in the history of the event, reports vnune

Interesting, from Slashdot

"La^2 writes "The Austrian research company Salzburg Research did a field trial at the CeBIT 2004 that confirms the seriousness of the recently discovered bluetooth security loophole in the firmware of popular mobile phone

In what it said was a first for Europe, Spanish telecommunications operator Telefonica has unveiled a voice-activated mobile telephone for blind people, reports AF

This story is being picked up like wildfire - about a stolen GPS Siemens phone at CeBIT with new navigation technology - which enabled staffers to locate the phone and the thief [Engadget via InfoSync World]

Anil de Mello had the story last wee

Following Ringtonia's weekly listing of ringtone related domain names, here's a listing of SMS related domain names that have come up for sale and are available to the public agai

A weeklong anti-crime campaign will kick-off on April 3 in Abu Dhabi, requesting of the population to "extend their co-operation and support to the security agencies of the country in order to help the government combat crime for the national and public security", reports The Khaleej Time

This is the other article that made me wonder if it was an April Fool's joke or the real thin

This is the second article today where I have double checked the date to make sure it doesn't read April 1st - it doesn't, it's dated March 30, so I guess it's on the leve

Interesting insight on the Chinese cell phone market from Reuter

A Spanish citizen wrote this extraordinary letter to Tom Tomorrow about the Madrid train bombing of March 1