SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 05 / 17

An entertaining press release from Sendo, a British mobile phones supplier to Network Operators around the worl

"What a shame to wake up in India under foreign rule!" says one of the text message sent by opponents of Gandhi, in a campaign against her becoming prime ministe

The Red Ferret Journal reports on yet another general mobile "Ask Experts" service, Kwickee Bitesiz

The Scotsman counts the weird and wonderful ways to ensnare a mate, amongst which is a practice reffered to as jam texting, first written up in 2002 - but hasn't made the papers in a while - which conducted from a car while waiting in traffic, enables a mobile user to text someone interesting-looking in a car nearb

Chess may be the proverbial game of kings, but the World Chess Federation has now sanctioned it as a game for mobile phone users, reports the International Herald Tribun

AirTel in India has unveiled a prototype of a coin-operated public telephone that will enable users to send SMS and e-mails to any mobile phone or mail ID, according to an article in The Telegrap

Starting this week, mobile phone users in Vietnam can order legal documents by text messaging and have them faxed or e-mailed back to them thanks to a new service called Vietlaw-SMS, reports Vietnam New

The Register reports on a Nordic survey which claims "84 per cent of 11,000 mobile users surveyed suffered warmth behind the ear or even burning ski