SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 07 / 25

An Arcadia woman and her daughter were rescued Wednesday in the Olancha Pass (California) after family members received text messages asking for help, reports the Porterville Reporte

A cellphone is selling on the South Korean market for 86 cents (Won 1,000), (if my currency conversion is correct

A new technology enables entire rooms to be sealed off from mobile phone signals, ensuring that they will never disturb the peace again, reports The Guardia

China on Sunday said goodbye to 'dial telephones' when the last such unit was replaced with a  state-of-the-art wireless unit in a remote Tibetan village, the state media reported, according to redif

Mobile Voter is a nascent project, currently looking for project funding and contacts with people or organizations who put on large progressive events such as concerts and rallies, attempting to use text messaging to support Get Out The Vote campaign

The number of mobile phone users in Korea will probably reach 3

With failing newspaper readership, cartoonists are losing their audience, so the next big thing in the comics world is the small cell-phone screen, according to Randy Dotinga reporting from the Comic-Con International in San Diego for Wire

Police are at a loss to explain a 47 per cent increase in the number of women killed on Victoria's roads this year compared with the same period in 200