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T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot Hitting Stores This Wednesday

A rumor saying that T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot is hitting T-Mobile’s stores starting this Wednesday, April 13th. The device was first revealed at CTIA last month. There’s not much to say regarding the device since there’s not much info can be gather.

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LG Mobile World Cup Ends with new Guinness World Records for Fastest Texting

LG hosted the first ever LG Mobile World Cup, which concluded yesterday with Young-Ho Bae, age 18, and Mok-Min Ha, age 17, from Korea as the winning team. The duo took home the title of LG Mobile World Cup Champions, and split the $100,000 in prize money, after beating out 24 participants from 12 other [...]

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O2 to send free twitter aleart via sms to its customers in UK

O2 today announces an agreement with Twitter which will allow O2 customers to receive SMS alerts from Twitter for free from August. The Twitter deal allows O2 customers to receive tweets from chosen friends, @mentions, and direct messages via SMS. They can also send and reply to tweets by text which will come from their [...]

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LG Kicks Off Mobile Worldcup 2009 for Fastest Texter

Are you very good in text messaging? LG has kicked off its annual LG MOBILE WORLDCUP to look for fastest texter. The annual festival kicks off with the first national competition in Indonesia that will culminate in the World Championship in the U.S. in November to find the world’s fastest texter.

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Bell to bring Twitter’s SMS service to Canada

Bell and Twitter today announced that Bell Mobility will offer Canadians full SMS (Short Messaging Service, or mobile text messaging) support for interacting with Twitter. Twitter is a communication network that enables users to send and receive text based posts of up to 140 characters (known as “tweets”). Updates are displayed on a users profile [...]

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kwiry Enables TiVo Scheduling via SMS

kwiry has enhanced its text messages service with a Shortcuts platform which include the ability to schedule a TV show recording on a TiVo DVR.  kwiry launched its Shortcuts service in August with Netflix and Amazon integrations.

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Samsung Mobile Xtreme Texting – Attempt to Set Guinness World Record for Fastest Text Messaging While Skydiving

On December 19, at team of 10 skydivers attempted to set the Guinness World Record for fastest test messaging while skydiving. The team used five different Samsung Mobile messaging phones with full QWERTY keyboards. The challange was captured in the air with two aerial videographers plus two more cameras on the ground.The entire team took [...]

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SMS money transfer receives consumer approval: Survey

SMS still rocks! Anam Mobile and TR2 Communications announced the results from a recent survey highlighted that user preferred sending money or adding credit to their phone, by sending a simple SMS (short message service).

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Data, SMS roaming charges soon to be cheaper

Governments in the European Union are set to regulate the costs on roaming charges of data usage and text messages. According to Mobile Industry Review, by citing Reuters, the EU Telecoms Commissioner has outlined the cost should be at 11 Euros cents for a roaming text message, compared with the existing average rate of 29.

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Lenovo Locks Out Thieves from ThinkPad Notebook PCs with SMS

Lenovo today announced plans to bring customers a new security defense against unauthorized data access on Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. The Lenovo Constant Secure Remote Disable feature lets users send a simple text message command via a cell phone to render their PC useless to unauthorized users when the notebook is lost or stolen. Lenovo’s Remote Disable [...]

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