Some if not all bar owners have seen a drop in clients and a decrease in the incoming cash flow, with the implementation of new smoking bans. But cell phone companies are not doing all that badly.In fact, a new piece of jargon has entered the English language to describe the new phenomenon of smoking [...]
It would seem that in Pakistan, there is nothing you need to watch out for more than making a joke about President Asif Ali Zardari by SMS (Short Messaging Service). If you mistakenly, or just for fun, share with a friend one of the hundreds of derisory jokes about the leader floating around electronically, you [...]
U.S. National Texting Challenge by LG Texting competition is an LG’s hunt to search for the fastest sms texter. With successful live campaigns in US and Canada, the competition is now brought to Facebook in order to draw a larger audience. Are you the fastest texter? Prove it! Play the LG Texting Challenge, now on [...]
Pa++ern is a project by Japanese duo Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi that uses a special “esoteric embroidery language” to create custom embroidered t-shirts using Twitter as the control interface. The program uses sets of one character commands that instruct a sewing machine to excecute specific designs. Users can input these command codes via the [...]
President Barack Obama asked interested citizens from around the world to send comments and questions about his trip to Africa. According to IC Publications, over 5,000 Africans sent text messages to US President Barack Obama ahead of his speech in Ghana Saturday during his first visit to the continent since taking office. On America.gov you [...]
US President Barack Obama has invited Kenyans to send comments and questions via short message service (SMS) ahead of his speech in Ghana on Saturday. Ghanaians, Nigerians and South Africans have also been invited to air their opinions on a broad range of issues. Mr Obama will directly answer selected SMS questions through local radio [...]
Not only does Google want to organize all the world’s information, it also wants to make all that information available to everyone in the world. For the majority of the world’s population, that means making it available on a cell phone, and not a fancy iPhone or Android with a Web browser either. I’m talking [...]
Reports from Iran say that SMS text messaging services have been unblocked for the first time since disputed presidential elections. However, Iranian news agencies say there are still technical problems. Text messaging and social networks were widely used by protesters in mass rallies following the election. Defeated opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi this week called [...]
