Having trouble remembering that drunken text you sent out to your best friend, your ex or accidentally to your mom? Well, you better be careful, because it just might turn up on TextsFromLastNight.com. The creators of this website discovered the joys and embarrassments of the drunken text and in February 2009, decided to create a website [...]
Apr 26, 2009 – GOMOTEXT.COM, a leading provider of mobile messaging and marketing solutions, announced the release of a long-awaited “white paper” outlining a thorough framework for understanding the decisions, effects and challenges involved in implementing a Mobile Marketing Campaign The white paper can be downloaded by visiting http://www.gomotext.com/mobile-marketing-white-paper/ Read the complete press release at [...]
Two Pennsylvania pals, 29-year-old Nick Andes and 30-year-old Doug Klinger, have just been charged $26,000 on a phone bill in an attempt to set a text-messaging record. After 217,000 text messages and a whopping $26,000 phone bill, the two guys have seemingly succeeded in setting a monthly text-messaging record, although whether it will be recognized [...]
Thought movie hecklers were annoying? Well, if a new project takes off nationwide, prepare to be uber-annoyed by heckling via texting/Twittering projected directly onto the movie screen. MuVChat creator Rien Heald describes his Frankenstein-like creation to the Chicago Tribune as “a mash-up of ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000‘ and Twitter.” At MuVChat screenings (currently only in [...]
Recent charity drives to raise money following two natural disasters in Italy have been bolstered by money sent in through text messages on cell phones. “Help Now,”the campaign organized by daily Corriere della Sera and news program TG5, has seen donations sent in by so-called ‘thumb tribes’ or mobile phone users top or equal those [...]
AT&T and the union representing its workers are still in contract talks, but workers have published a song, with accompanying ringtone, called “Ready to Strike,” just in case. The song’s pro-labor lyrics include “Get ready to strike, get ready to walk the line” and “Protect my health care, don’t lower my wages / Realize, recognize, [...]
The new service allows users to find out the status and resolutions of cases using their mobile phone The Dubai Public Prosecution (DPP) has gone live with a new SMS service that can be used by the general public as well as lawyers and prosecutors to find out the details of specific cases. The SMS [...]
Police in Egypt have been deployed in large numbers to prevent a national strike by pro-democracy activists, reports the BBC. Police had orders to arrest anyone taking part, and a number of activists have been held in recent days.Protests appear to have been small, but about 100 MPs, out of 454, walked out of parliament [...]
This just in: Cell phone users in the States have warmed up to text messages. And boy, do we love to talk.Speaking at the annual CTIA keynote Wednesday, CTIA CEO Steve Largent told show-goers that the numbers of SMS messages sent by U.S. wireless subscribers rose to a staggering 1 trillion last year—or triple the [...]
