Let’s take a healthy sodium dose here, but London’s Sunday Times is alleging that Facebook has admitted to reading users’ text messages. They supposedly read the private SMS messages of users who downloaded the Facebook app on their smartphones.
Farming cows is a thankless task; keeping track of their fertility sounds funny, but it’s what keeps meat in your burger and milk on your cereal. Fortunately, mobile technology means that cows can now drop their farmers an SMS when they’re feeling frisky. That’s right. Bovine sexting has arrived.
A report out of the UK suggests that mobile carriers ‘lost’ something in the region of $US13.9 billion in SMS charges due to the rise of instant messaging services on smartphones. It’s left me wondering: What relevance do mobile voice and SMS charges have in an IP world anyway?
That thing you’re worried is going to happen to you ever single time you walk down the street while texting? It just happened. To someone else! Laugh away.
Tragic news today reported in a hard-hitting Onion exclusive. A teenage girl, capable only of texting and rolling her eyes sarcastically has been declared legally brain-dead and will be euthanased by her parents. Using this case as precedent, bodies are sure to be stacking up, judging by what I see on the subway every day.
Nokia got busted by ACMA today to the tune of $55,000 for sending out spam SMS to customers. Ouch!
There are a lot of sad sites at CES. But Robert Sanchez telling an empty room about his plans to sell a patent that details delivery of URLs via text message for $US60 million has to be one of the most desperate.
Next time your date cancels by SMS, be suspicious. Because a new study suggests that people lie more often when they communicate by text compared to face-to-face conversations or speaking on the phone.
You had better hope the gent who discovered this WinPho security exploit is the only one who knows how to do it: this video shows just how easy it is to permanently ruin a WP7 handset.
I love it when old people try to understand the inner workings of the teenage brain. Like if they think hard enough they’ll figure out why little Amanda sneaks out at night. Please. Kids are kids! So parents, just understand that you’ll never understand the advanced and possibly unreal sexting terminology of your kids.
