Posts Tagged ‘sms’
SMS Snoop captures Tigers of the world
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on January 2nd, 2010
Thinking of pulling off a Tiger Woods? You’d best go through your thought processes a couple of times more with wives and girlfriends being all the more wary about your ‘good boy’ image, as they now have the help of SMS Snoop – an application that was specially designed and programmed to catch those who abuse cellphone technology by cheating on their spouse or partner via SMS. All you need is a momentary lapse of concentration, where your spouse can then install the application without you knowing any better, and each SMS sent out by you will also be forwarded to their cellphone. All data can be saved or retrieved at any time for future proof in the event of infidelity. We do wonder how long this game can keep up though – especially if one checks through the bill each month to see the SMS costs double.
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AT&T data outage in San Francisco?
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 12th, 2009
Reports are flying in -- using WiFi, we suspect -- that AT&T's having a bit of a data and SMS outage in San Francisco. Our own personal experiences confirm the data, although text messages are sending and receiving just fine. According to a tweet found by TechCrunch, customer service is saying it'll take anywhere from 24 to 48 hours to fix -- sounds pretty extreme to us, and unfortunately we can't get ahold of anyone to corroborate. Let's put it to you, Bay Area readers, how's that iPhone working for ya?AT&T data outage in San Francisco? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 27th, 2009
Sext. Sending pictures of your naughty bits through MMS. Oh, don't play coy. You already knew what it is, so let's just watch this educational video and learn about safer sext practices from some singing, underwear-clad people.
All joking aside, there really is a lesson to take away from the clip. Those silly oh-I'm-feeling-a-bit-naughty-this-morning pictures can come back to haunt you. Because once they're sent through MMS, emails, or instant messages, those snapshots are out of your hands and you're left wondering who might wind up seeing those pictures of you in nothing but lacy stockings.
So to sleep better at night, just watch who you send pervy pictures to, keep your face or particularly identifying characteristics out of the snapshots, and don't forget about clearing the EXIF data. That's all there is to it, so be safe, kiddies.
Coalition of carriers, manufacturers settles on voice standard for LTE
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 4th, 2009
As much fanfare and support as it's been getting over the past couple years, LTE's dirty little secret is that there's been no unified stance on how to ferry voice services over the technology; the concentration has been on data alone so far. Sure, the occasional carrier has raised concerns -- and a variety of solutions have been proposed, ranging from VoIP to repurposing legacy networks for voice alone -- but until now, voice has been an afterthought that everyone's been procrastinating on solving. Fortunately, a veritable who's-who of industry players from both the manufacturer and carrier sides of the fence have congealed this week to announce the One Voice initiative, which basically just hand-picks existing 3GPP-defined standards for voice and SMS services over LTE. Strangely missing is T-Mobile, one of the loudest voices in demanding a voice standard for LTE up until this point -- but considering that AT&T, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, and Vodafone are all on board along with Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and others, we think they'll have no option but to fall in line in the long term. For consumers, this means we can all breathe a sigh of relief that LTE handsets won't be arbitrarily compartmentalized by supported voice standard, so it's a big win any way you slice it.Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
Coalition of carriers, manufacturers settles on voice standard for LTE originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsBest Use of SMS Technology Yet Includes Boobs, Of Course [Nsfw]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on September 27th, 2009
What you are looking at here is a) a seminaked stunning blonde in transparent lingerie, b) a great ad for the new Axe Day and Night, c) the best use of SMS technology yet, or d) all of the above.
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It is pretty simple and absolutely brilliant: To launch a new deodorant in Uruguay, the Lowe Ginkgo agency in Montevideo created an incomplete ad. The ad showed a purrty neekeed girl in a suggestive pose. It didn't, however, show any of her naughty bits. Instead, it came with blank spaces and the following text:
To complete this ad send AXE to 2345 after 9 pm.
The message made a server to send a multimedia message to your cellphone with the rest of the ad, so you could admire the complete image. The Mad Men would be proud. [Direct Daily]
Silly Carmakers Don’t Think You Should Text and Drive [Cellphones]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on September 25th, 2009
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers are the latest to support a national law against texting while driving. Clearly, they haven't seen me: I can simultaneously eat Chik-fil-a, shift gears, Twitter, send email via iPhone and brush my teeth. Perfectly. [CrunchGear]
Tata DoCoMo launches per-character SMS pricing, and this headline just cost us close to a rupee
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on September 10th, 2009
Never mind "nickel and diming" -- Indian joint venture Tata DoCoMo is now rupee and paising (a paise is a hundredth of a rupee) customers who sign up for its new "Diet-SMS" messaging plan. Unlimited and ultra-high-allowance messaging plans are now commonplace in some parts of the world, but on the other end of the spectrum, Diet-SMS is actually a regression from the old practice of charging by the message -- you get charged by the character. The good news is they don't charge for spaces and characters are just a single paise each, which works out to about two-hundredths of a US cent at current conversion rates -- but still, the fact remains that a 160-character SMS costs Tata DoCoMo exactly the same to handle as a 1-character one. What's worse, you just know this is going to give rise to a new ultra-efficient shorthand notation that makes "LOL" look like a novella.[Via textually.org]
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Tata DoCoMo launches per-character SMS pricing, and this headline just cost us close to a rupee originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsDrunk Driver Caught Using Cellphone While Speeding, Fishtailing, and Running Red Lights [Cellphones]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on August 31st, 2009
Hookay. So we knew that texting while driving is stupid. But what about using your cellphone to take photos of yourself while driving. Drunk. Speeding. Fishtailing. Running red lights. Crashing against a police car. And with no driver's license.
Yes. That definitely goes beyond the general area of stupidity straight into the I'm a Bloody Moron, Please Shoot Me Dimension. It had to be a dumb Spaniard, of course, for this Euro-African country—alongside Italy and France—produces the biggest driving—and regular—dumbasses in the planet (I know because I was born there).
The 18-year-old driver—identified as J.C.R—was caught by the Spanish police while racing through the streets of the Northwest city of Vigo. The police noticed the speeding car at 2:50am. According to them, the guy was fishtailing, and running red lights while taking photos of himself using a cellphone.
When the police tried to stop him, the moron accelerated and tried to escape, only to be intercepted in another street. Then he tried to escape running and, when he realized he couldn't make it, he returned to his car, and crashed against one of the police vehicles that was chasing him.
Adding to this list of idiotic things, when the police tested his alcohol levels, he was off of the scale. In Spanish law, that means that you will get your driver's license automatically revoked. But then again—as the police discovered later—this guy doesn't even have a driver's license, so it's not that he's going to care about that. Not that he will need one in jail, anyway. [Yahoo! Noticias (in Spanish)—Thanks Mariló]
Study Finds that More than Half of Drivers Are Idiots (And Text) [Texting]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on August 24th, 2009
Seriously people, I stopped driving almost a year ago, but in my 18 years behind the wheel I never ever typed a message while driving. Unlike 52% of drivers worldwide, according to a recent survey.
So is half the world absolutely insane or is this survey—done with just a 2,881 driver sample—inaccurate? It seems to me like an awfully high number, but knowing that everybody has a phone now, I'm not surprised. If true, this is something a bill won't fix. It seems more like an education matter. And with education I mean "if you text while driving you may end up dead, you idiot." [PR Newswire]
Texting makes kids dumb — science fact!
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on August 13th, 2009
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Filed under: Cellphones
Texting makes kids dumb -- science fact! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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