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Beijing, Feb. 26 (ANI): Chinese authorities have punished hundreds of people in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for spreading rumours and separatist content through text messages during the Spring Festival holiday. Two persons were detained on Feb 20, while the rest received administrative punishments for sending illegal text messages, according to a statement released by [...]

Mobile money applications are emerging as potent financial tools in rural and remote areas of the globe, allowing people with no bank accounts to get paid, send remittances or settle their bill. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Gavin Krugel, the director of mobile banking strategy at GSM Association said “We see it [...]

GOMOTEXT.COM, a leading provider of mobile messaging and marketing solutions, today announced the release of new feature packs for  their Mobile Marketing Campaign Manager Software. “GOMOTEXT will soon be releasing its iPhone App, that will allow users to manage all their campaigns using the iPhone. This release will make Campaign Manager, one of the only [...]

How many of us had thought of this before—learning a language through sms!  The BBC World Service Trust, an international charity arm of the broadcaster is running this service in Bangladesh one of Asia’s poorest nations. Mobile phone services began in Bangladesh just over a decade ago and there are more than 50.4million users. The [...]

So, for any of you who had doubts about the future of SMS, given the rise of Facebook/Myspace/Twitter and most recently Buzz, these are the hard core facts as shared by Clickatell. Today, there are roughly 4 mobile phone users world wide for every 1 computer user. When looking at the numbers, it is clear [...]

American teenagers send an average of 10 text messages per hour they are not in school or sleeping, according to research by The Nielsen Company. By analyzing more than 40,000 monthly U.S. mobile bills, Nielsen determined American teens sent an average of 3,146 texts a month each during Q3 2009. Their tween counterparts (ages 9-12) [...]

Being a mother you can imagine the excitement when I came across http://text4baby.org/. A free site, where moms and moms to be get FREE messages each week on their cell phone.  Registration is easy and can be done online by texting the word BABY (or BEBE for Spanish) to 511411. Enter your baby’s due date [...]

As part of our ongoing commitment to provide the clients with the best user experience possible, GOMOTEXT is pleased to announce the release of a new feature pack FP2 for Campaign Manager v4.0 This pack includes some of the features requested by our resellers over the past few months. These new features need to be [...]

Authorities in China‘s troubled north-western region of Xinjiang have punished residents for spreading rumours and “splittist” content via text messages, within days of turning services back on, according to local media. Officials cut off the internet and short message services across the region after inter-ethnic violence in the capital, Urumqi, left almost 200 dead and [...]

A new study out today irresponsibly suggests that laws banning cell phone use while driving have zero effect on the number of crashes on our nation’s roadways. At this early stage in our work against distracted driving, no one should be discouraging strong nationwide efforts to make our roadways safer. When it comes to distracted [...]