Link: Helsingin Sanomat – International Edition – Home. Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen decided on Monday to back down from legal action against the late-edition tabloid Ilta-Sanomat for violation of privacy. On Saturday, the paper reported extensively on SMS messages Vanhanen sent to a woman. The Prime Minister was especially annoyed that Ilta-Sanomat quoted the content [...]

Link: UK Users Send 99 Million Text Messages A Day – Digital-Lifestyles.info. Britain remains in the grip of a texting mania as new figures reveal around 99 million text messages were faithfully banged out on little keypads every day during February. Most people insist that I must have it wrong when I tell them we’re [...]

Link: Australian IT – Things go better with SMS (Dorothy Kennedy, MARCH 28, 2006). LAST year, 130,000 SMS messages poured out of Coca-Cola Amatil’s 240-seat contact centre in Sydney, bound for the mobile handsets of the company’s 600-odd field workers. Contact centre staff did not use phones to send the messages, instead keying them into [...]

Link: juize – Now everyone can text for free. Q. How do I get free Text messages with juize? A. Install the juize application on your phone (it�s free) and then you can send text messages from within juize (we call them j-txt), to anyone else who has juize installed on their phone. Just thought [...]

Link: Dragon fires up cheap texts – Sunday Times – Times Online. DOUG RICHARD, the American software entrepreneur best known from the Dragons’ Den TV programme, is aiming to take a big bite out of the profits mobile-phone companies make from text messaging with the launch tomorrow of Hotxt. He plans to undercut the main [...]

Link: I Want Your Text – Text Messaging Is The Latest Technology For Hooking Up — New York Magazine. It was only a matter of time before New Yorkers started getting hot and heavy via text message. We’re a little late to the game (those cheeky Europeans, masters of hand-to-phone coordination, have enjoyed the sexual [...]

Link: Scotsman.com News – Scotland – Pray as you go to spread the Catholic Word via mobiles. The Roman Catholic Church in Scotland is about to score a UK first by urging followers to pray, protest and ponder via their mobile phones. The nation’s 270,000 active Catholics will be offered the unique text message service, [...]

Mobile texting to save the NHS £370 million a year | 24dash.com – Health It’s claimed today that mobile phone texting could save the NHS millions of pounds a year. If patients were texted to remind them to take their drugs and turn up for appointments experts at Imperial College believe that patient care would [...]

Tech Digest: Texting device for your home phone If you’re so antisocial you can’t even be bothered to speak to people when you’re calling from your home phone, BoysStuff is selling just the gadget for you. The £19.25 Magic Messenger, which lets you send texts using your landline, means you may never have to bother [...]