SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 08 / 30

Westminster Council's campaign to cut off mobile telephone numbers used by prostitutes could go badly wrong, according to The Inquire

A new survey by Norway's dominant telecommunications company Telenor revealed that mobile use by children is enjoying explosive growth, reports Aftenposte

Finland knows what to do with Nokia Phone

Pantech&Curitel’s new game phone adopting innovative design was opened to public Monda

On eve of the Republican Convention, mobile community Upoc Networks announces the upcoming marriage of a couple who met via text messaging on its mobile community service, Upo

City leaders of Huntington Beach California adopted an ordinance, which takes effect September 15, that bans all cell phone use in libraries, including talking, text messaging and ringing tones of any kind, reports The Associated Pres

Finns, Norwegians and Danes send a lot more SMS messages and talk considerably more on the mobile phone than the Swedes, Nordic telecoms operator TeliaSonera told the Finnish News Agency STT Friday, reports Newsroom Finlan

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Protesters and police put on a Broadway show Sunday night, with rallies and mass arrests throughout the theater district where Republicans had gathered for a night on the town, reports Scripps Howard News Servic

In yet another case where text messaging is being used as evidence in court, The Associated Press reports on a Washington National Guard soldier, Sp

A mobile phone system allowing users to help find missing children scored its first success Sunday in Jeonju (South Korea), 100 days after the system was introduced, according to Digital Chosunilb

A new law due to be debated in the Australian Senate today, allows many new government bodies to access private e-mails, voice-mail messages and SMS messages, reports The Herald Su

The highly modern Singapore Air Force is plagued by migratory egrets that appear between September and November, causing fighter planes to crash if sucked into the jet engines, reports Spacewa

Figures released by Telstra today show that more than 97,000 SMS messages and 90,000 fixed line phone calls have been made to Greece by Telstra customers since the start of the Athens Olympics, according to IT New

European Game & Entertainment Technology, a Finnish supplier of digital gaming solutions, has delivered MMS mobile scratch cards to the Swedish national gaming operator, Sperospe