SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 04 / 27

To help raise funds for The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign “Muscles for Muscles Week” is encouraging people to exercise their thumbs, Mike Grenville reports on this new SMS fund raising campaign in 160character

The Queensland Government has issued tough new guidelines to control the growing use of mobile phones by school students, reports New

SMS as an alibi

In Austrlia, a murder supect allegedly used mobile text messaging to create a false alibi - that he was with a prostitute while his family was being murdered, according to New

mCasino technology is intended to give casinos a way to keep customers happy -- read: playing and betting -- even when they're away from the tables, reports Daniel Terdiman for Wire

The Legoland theme park in Denmark has launched a wi-fi based kid-tracking system - developed by wireless application firms Bluesoft and KidSpotter - allowing parents to track the location of their children while in the theme park, according to DMEurop

Carlo Longino for TheFeatur

UK text messaging figures for March 2004 reached

A morse cellphon

British consumers can now send and receive text messages from their fixed-line home phones following the soft-launch of BT Text, according to newmediazer

AT&T Wireless is waving a white flag on the walkie-talkie front, according to TheStree

The cinema release a children’s movie called ‘TOOTH’ about a feisty tooth fairy is supported by an SMS text-and-win promotion, reports 160character

A judge in the Northern Italian city of Vicenza has banned two Italian young men - who abused their ex-girlfriends by telephone - from using their mobile phones, according to Prosperity