Billions of Text Messages Ring in Chinese New Year (Reuters)

Grok Headline matches for Billions of Text Messages Ring in Chinese New Year (Reuters)

Chinese people to send 550 billion short
messages this year (AFP)

Chinese people to send 550 billion short
messages this year (AFP) 08/10/2004 01:51 AM
AFP - Chinese people are expected to send 550 billion short messages this year, doubling mobile phone operators' revenues to some 6.7 billion dollars, state press reported.

Text-Mad Britons Top Two Billion
Messages in March (Reuters)

Text-Mad Britons Top Two Billion
Messages in March (Reuters) 04/28/2004 04:46 AM
Reuters - Britons sent 2.1 billion text messages in March, thumbing an average of 69 million per day, according to figures released this week by telecommunications trade group The Mobile Data Association.

Chinese Couples Chicken Out of Rooster
Year Weddings (Reuters)

Chinese Couples Chicken Out of Rooster
Year Weddings (Reuters) 01/04/2005 11:19 AM
Reuters - Couples across China are rushing to get married in the next few days before the Year of the Rooster, chickening out of what they believe to be a jinxed time to tie wed.

Text messages, too

Text messages, too 08/30/2004 12:09 PM
Chicago Tribune Aug 30 2004 4:33PM GMT

Text Messages from God!

Text Messages from God! 09/16/2004 03:05 PM
SMS Media Group offers daily Bible verse on your cell phone with its Mfaith service. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

Short Text Messages In Mid-Air

Short Text Messages In Mid-Air 06/02/2004 06:39 PM

Feel Your Text Messages

Feel Your Text Messages 04/22/2004 08:00 PM
Researchers in Germany have developed a new system to feel text messages. It's almost as bizarre as it sounds. It's not quite braille for mobile phones. The idea isn't to translate entire messages but to give general feelings based on specific keywords, which are then sent to tiny fingertip sensors to indicate the general meaning of a message. Thus, it can be used to indicate a meeting between two people at a certain location by sending the message "you, me, location." Of course, the learning curve on this seems likely to make sure it's not used very widely. You need to learn to understand the tactile "melodies" it gives, you need to program it to understand certain words and associate them with specific tactile signals, and you need to tell others messaging you to use the specific keywords that set the thing off. And, of course, you have to wonder how many times you'll be in a situation where you can't just glance at the screen and get the point of the message instead of needing to read the message by feel. The researchers seem to recognize it isn't entirely practical - saying that it can be used for art-installations or for basic communications for those who are deaf or blind, rather than as a true replacement for basic text messaging. Still, it seems like one potential interesting use is moving more into the traditional haptics/feedback world, where it could be used to give people specific signals. For example, in a car, if a lane departure warning system senses the driver is drifting out of their lane, the steering wheel could return a specific "tactile melody" that would alert the driver to move back into their lane - though, again, perhaps a audio alarm would be more effective.

Text Messages in the Courts

Text Messages in the Courts 06/08/2004 10:40 AM

80,012 Text Messages In One Month

80,012 Text Messages In One Month 06/06/2004 04:47 AM
Slashdot Jun 6 2004 9:19AM GMT

Loophole lets 'Freedom' ring in Chinese
MSN bl0gs

Loophole lets 'Freedom' ring in Chinese
MSN bl0gs 06/22/2005 02:07 AM
Blog: MSN came under fire last week for releasing a Chinese-language version of its Spaces blog-hosting service that bans certain words...

Fingertips 'read' text messages

Fingertips 'read' text messages 04/22/2004 05:12 AM
A way to read text messages by just using your fingertips has been developed by researchers in Germany.

Text Messages Connect Protestors

Text Messages Connect Protestors 09/08/2004 06:30 PM
CBS News Sep 8 2004 9:56PM GMT

Text messages aid disaster recovery

Text messages aid disaster recovery 01/06/2005 04:28 AM
Text messages could soon be at the heart of a system to help people cope in the aftermath of disasters.

Protesters Using Text Messages to Plan
(AP)

Protesters Using Text Messages to Plan
(AP) 09/01/2004 05:18 PM
AP - "Multiple reports of provocateurs setting trash fires in midtown," read one text message sent to 400-plus mobile phones this week through a service called Ruckus RNC 2004 Text Alerts.

Text Messages for Critical Masses

Text Messages for Critical Masses 08/12/2004 04:37 AM
Political protestors are using a new tool that lets a person send a single text message to hundreds of mobile-phone users at the press of a button. By Daniel Terdiman.

China snoops on text messages

China snoops on text messages 07/02/2004 08:23 AM
Stamping out out 'false political rumours'

China to censor text messages

China to censor text messages 07/02/2004 05:04 AM
Mobile phone text messages are to be policed for undesirable content, raising fears of political censorship.

Billions of pounds wasted every year on
IT systems in the UK

Billions of pounds wasted every year on
IT systems in the UK 04/21/2004 09:12 PM
Computer Weekly Apr 22 2004 1:28AM GMT

Kumamoto Univ. fixes website after
finding messages in Chinese

Kumamoto Univ. fixes website after
finding messages in Chinese 04/16/2005 10:07 AM
Newsonjapan.com - Sat Apr 16, 10:43 am GMT

Text Messages Killing Radio Star

Text Messages Killing Radio Star 05/08/2004 05:06 AM
International editors and publishers at a meeting to promote newspaper readership caution that nontraditional communications, like cell-phone text messages, are beating radio, television and print media to the punch.

Pissed Off Customer Sends 10,000 Text
Messages

Pissed Off Customer Sends 10,000 Text
Messages 06/04/2004 08:57 AM

An angry Kiwi man sent roughly 2,580 text messages a day in May to protest his mobile company's decision to cancel its unlimited text messaging deal, for a total of 80,012 for the whole month. He got his point across, however futile it might be in the end -- while his current unlimited plan costs only $6.29 a month, after the rate hike the same amount of messaging would cost more than $10,000.
Read [AZCentral via PhoneMag]

Italy Uses Text Messages for Voting Info

Italy Uses Text Messages for Voting Info 06/11/2004 10:32 PM
In what it claims was simply an effort to boost turnout, the Italian government has sent millions of cell phone users text messages on voting procedures for this weekend's European and local elections.

Text Messages May Turn Up in Bryant Case

Text Messages May Turn Up in Bryant Case 06/06/2004 02:10 PM
AP via Newsday Jun 6 2004 7:07PM GMT

How to Recall Drunk-Dialed SMS Text
Messages

How to Recall Drunk-Dialed SMS Text
Messages 06/22/2005 02:41 AM

First Amazon locks down one-click buying, and now Samsung just got the patent for un-sending drunk SMS messaging. Here’s some info from cellularnews.com: “Samsung has been awarded a patent on a method of sending an SMS to a handset then being able to later send a “delete” command to the same phone to erase the SMS from the handset memory. The patent is apparently aimed at people who mass broadcast messages and accidentally include incorrect…

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Text Messages May Turn Up in Bryant Case
(AP)

Text Messages May Turn Up in Bryant Case
(AP) 06/06/2004 01:02 PM
AP - A few hours after NBA star Kobe Bryant had sex with a Vail-area hotel worker last summer, the woman exchanged cell phone text messages with a former boyfriend and someone else. What's in those messages could help determine whether the sex was consensual or whether Bryant is guilty of rape as charged. The judge himself said the content may be "highly relevant" to the case.

Germany Uses Text Messages to Fight
Crime

Germany Uses Text Messages to Fight
Crime 02/16/2004 09:13 AM
San Jose Mercury News Feb 16 2004 1:08PM GMT

Police get access to stored emails and
text messages

Police get access to stored emails and
text messages 05/28/2004 04:46 AM
Silicon.com May 28 2004 8:36AM GMT

Italian Gov't Sends Voting Text Messages
(AP)

Italian Gov't Sends Voting Text Messages
(AP) 06/11/2004 11:30 AM
AP - In what it claims was simply an effort to boost turnout, the Italian government has sent millions of cell phone users text messages on voting procedures for this weekend's European and local elections.

Italian Gov't Sends Voting Text Messages

Italian Gov't Sends Voting Text Messages 06/11/2004 12:44 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jun 11 2004 5:24PM GMT

China starts censoring phone text
messages

China starts censoring phone text
messages 07/03/2004 08:47 AM
Chicago Tribune Jul 3 2004 12:13PM GMT

China begins policing of mobile text
messages (AFP)

China begins policing of mobile text
messages (AFP) 07/02/2004 12:12 AM
AFP - China has issued new regulations on the filtering of mobile phone short text messages in a move that expands its censorship controls over wireless technologies and the Internet, state press said.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Fingertips
'read' text messages

BBC NEWS | Technology | Fingertips
'read' text messages 04/24/2004 06:22 AM
Fingertips 'read' text messages .. Read the article

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Ugly Email Messages: Beware the Text
Monkey

Ugly Email Messages: Beware the Text
Monkey 05/31/2004 02:00 PM
Text Monkey cleans up sloppy, over-quoted email text with one click. Text Monkey senses when quoted email text is copied to the Windows clipboard and cleans and reformats it automatically, or upon confirmation. [PRWEB May 25, 2004]

AT&T Supports 13.5 Million American Idol
Text Messages

AT&T Supports 13.5 Million American Idol
Text Messages 05/27/2004 02:03 PM
Love it or hate it, American Idol has at least one geeky claim to fame. It arguably was the major vehicle that introduced text messaging to much of the American public. AT&T says this season's show is even generating even...

Italian carrier blocks Vodafone text
messages

Italian carrier blocks Vodafone text
messages 06/25/2004 04:08 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 25 2004 8:33AM GMT

Bluehandle Ltd Announces the Release of
Textpa.com - Scheduled SMS Text Messages

Bluehandle Ltd Announces the Release of
Textpa.com - Scheduled SMS Text Messages 06/08/2004 02:59 AM
textpa.com is a web based SMS text message system that allows companies or mobile users to schedule text messages to be sent at specified dates and times. Primarily designed for Dentists, Doctors and other companies who need to remind clients of important appointments, renewals, events, releases or just general reminders, it is also available for general mobile phone users to take advantage of the service. [PRWEB Jun 8, 2004]

Iranian Election Text Messages Could
Backfire As Politicians Freak Out

Iranian Election Text Messages Could
Backfire As Politicians Freak Out 06/22/2005 02:17 AM
There have been plenty of stories about how mobile text messaging has played a role in recent elections in places like South Korea and the Philippines, among other places. So it's not really surprising to find out that text messaging has been very popular in Iran as well, which has a tremendously large younger generation. However, unlike in those other places, it appears that the politicians in question haven't quite learned how to adapt to the changing technology. Since most of the effort is against a particularly candidate, he's now now threatening revenge against anyone who sent SMS messages that were negative towards him: "I have the address and phone numbers of those who have slandered me (in the text messages)." The local judiciary is also making it clear that such messages are illegal and they'll prosecute those involved. Imagine if you had a similar situation in the US during elections where mud-slinging is encouraged? Given Iran's history of imprisoning bloggers and others who they dislike, this is, obviously, a serious matter -- but it's just a reminder that the things that we take for granted about open communications thanks to new technologies aren't quite so embraced in other parts of the world.

British university experiments with
telephone text messages to students
(AFP)

British university experiments with
telephone text messages to students
(AFP) 04/08/2005 12:29 PM
AFP - Staff at a British university are piloting a project to inform students about exam dates, changes to class times, and revision tips via mobile telephone text messages rather than traditional noticeboards.

Businesses Can Now Send Text Messages to
Their Customer's Cell Phones

Businesses Can Now Send Text Messages to
Their Customer's Cell Phones 03/26/2005 04:52 AM
SMS Media Group's web-based, SMSdelivery.net system is a mobile CRM platform that creates, delivers, and reports on text message campaigns in real time. [PRWEB Mar 26, 2005]
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