SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 04 / 21

Teaming up with the BBC, Trace a Mobil

We have reported before on companies in the UK, Australia and South Korea firing hundreds or thousands of employees by text messaging, but sacking a prime minister by SMS is a first!

South Africa's Independent Online reports that Swaziland's King Mswati fired former prime minister Sibusiso Dlamini last year via a text message on his cellphon

Here goes anoter gossipy story, but as you may have noticed, human interest stories related to text messaging are what I love mos

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo admitted to Malacañang reporters that she used text messaging to run the government, according to inq

Buoyed by an insatiable public interest in the Beckhams and other celebrities, Hello Magazine's website is celebrating its third birthday with soaring traffic and plans for new features including SMS celebrity update

Beginning this month, Cingular will offer customers throughout Alabama a new service that essentially puts management of personal account information in the hands of its wireless customers, according to a company press releas

The New South Wales Government has accused the Federal Government of blocking a trial of mobile phone jamming in the State's jails, reports AB

The reason people find mobile phone conversations so irritating could be down to human curiosity, say researchers in the UK, reports the BB

An interesting post on the advances in mobile ubiquity from blog pal Anil de Mell

Nearly one-third of kids in the United States have their own mobile phones, while 48 percent of European kids said they own mobile phones, according to a new study by TNS, reported by RCR Wireless New

At Milan Design Week, glimmering in a black warehouse, an Art Deco falling spiral chandelier had crowds of party-goers mesmerised as they sent text messages to the light and watched their SMSs trickle through the crystal strands like a luxurious ticker tape, reports Reuter