icTeesside – Confession by text Text messages sealed the fate of a stolen car’s proud owner who used his mobile phone to boast about his new wheels, a court heard. Dean Howard celebrated the purchase of a stolen Lexus by texting his mother: “You should see my new car… It’s a ringer,” Teesside Crown Court [...]

Scotsman.com Business – KeyPoint lures high-fliers and £5m funding Scottish start-up KeyPoint Technologies has lured a Silicon Valley high-flyer to Glasgow after he was impressed by its revolutionary texting software. The company, which is close to raising £5m, produces software used in PDAs, mobile phones and personal computers and is recruiting 60 staff in anticipation [...]

I was wondering why people were only emailing me at ewan@neoone.com and not ewan@smstextnews.com.  Turns out, super over-confident idiot that I am, I thought I knew our server IP back to front.  I didn’t.  I swapped a 2 for a 0.  Ergo if you’ve emailed me in the last week or so and wondered why [...]

Got this from my younger brother – it’s apparently doing the rounds with his friends. Link: juize – Now everyone can text for free. We’d like to give you a simple piece of software for your mobile phone. It will let you send text messages to your friends’ mobiles for free* And you don’t need [...]

So it’s a quiet day today.  I’m looking around for a daily fix of SMS news… guess what… nothing.  Nada.  The wires are quiet. 

So, what a difference.  You have the Chinese mobile phone companies fining companies hundreds of thousands of dollars for publishing misleading ads. Welcome to the UK where we effectively encourage it!  Mike at www.160characters.org has just posted this piece saying that ICSTIS, the UK regulator, has just issured an immediate halt to service providers abusing [...]

SEATTLE, Jan. 23 — Leading mobile entertainment provider, Blue Frog Mobile, announced today the launch of its innovative txtv service. The first service of its kind in the United States, txtv allows television viewers to send text messages directly to their TV screens. txtv broadcast partners share in messaging revenue. txtv has been successfully tested [...]

Check out Research & Markets latest headline stats noted here by TCM net. I still cannot believe that 9.6% of all mobile revenues in 2007 will come from us paying 10p to send 160 character messages to each other. 

Robert Garza, a 24-year-old Tahlequah resident, sends approximately 5,000 text messages a month to one person: his girlfriend, Kelli Odeneal. Excluding weekends, when the two are presumably together, that’s approximately 250 messages per day, five days per week. Link: here That’s a LOT of text messages to just one person.