Author Archive | Ewan

An appeal to raise £1.6 million to buy a portrait of the English poet John Donne has been launched by the National Portrait Gallery in London. The 16th Century picture, regarded as the most important painting of Donne, has been privately owned for 400 years. Current Poet Laureate Andrew Motion said the painting’s "innate qualities" [...]

(I-Newswire) – ( Singapore, January 26, 2006 ) Singapore – based technology company Bubble Motion has launched its revolutionary Voice SMS technology ‘BubbleTalkâ„¢ with Hong Kong CSL Limited. BubbleTalkâ„¢ – the first voice sms technology in the world – is now available to CSL’s customers. BubbleTalkâ„¢ enables customers to record what they want to express [...]

Sandakan: Modern technology at the palm of the hand is said to be the main reason behind the decrease in the sale of printed festive greeting cards for the Hari Raya, Christmas and Chinese New Year celebrations. Shops selling greeting cards could only moan at the gradual loss of sales over the past few years, [...]

The trial of a new bushfire warning system on the Eyre Peninsula this week has been heralded a success by the system’s creators. The system sends out warning messages via a number of mediums, including SMS, email and landline phones. Link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200601/1556518.htm?eyre

Meteor has already received thousands of votes from enthusiastic fans, however the countdown is now on and with only three weeks left to vote for your favourite band or artist it’s time to get texting! Text voting is open to customers of all Irish mobile networks and will be charged at standard text rates. Meteor [...]

Ken Fargher, technical director of Parity Software explains that Joburg.co.za is a marketing initiative comprising an interactive website including weekly online newsletters developed and managed by Parity Software. Joburg.co.za was launched in February 2005 and has since achieved a subscriber count of over 180,000. SMS Cellular Services (SCS) has recently partnered with Parity Software to [...]

To ensure privacy, Kryptext wraps text messages in 128-bit encryption. Before using Kryptext for the first time, the user is verified by various methods like the unique number code of the mobile phone and password protection. Users can also set up Kryptext on their desktop to send secure SMS from their PC. Link: http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/01/27/Kryptext-SMS.html Now, [...]

Some years back there was much discussion in the media about a Muslim man said to have divorced his wife via SMS (short messaging service). And that the religious authority was said to have recognised the efficacy of SMS as a means to communicate a Muslim man’s utterance of divorce. Link: http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=12819 In the above [...]

The boys at iTAGG are going in for a bit of textual healing this Valentine’s day with the launch of a new service enabling would-be cupids to send anonymous romantic text messages to their chosen Valentine or to send ‘fake’ valentine’s messages from their favourite celebrity. Users text the word ‘valentine’ followed by the name [...]