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  • Charity text messaging

    Everything Everywhere suspends charity text skimming, but doesn't rule out complete stop

    EXCLUSIVE: 100 per cent goes to charity... for now 15 April 2011 15:51 GMT

    Everything Everywhere has has suspended, but not completely ruled out, taking a percentage of donations made to charities using text messages via the operators network.

    Speaking to Pocket-lint, Everything Everywhere stated: “Everything...

  • Orange predicts a white and texty Christmas

    Orange predicts a white and texty Christmas

    Network foresees a boom in MMS messages because of the snow 21 December 2010 12:38 GMT

    Vodafone recently told us how the snow at the end of November led to a massive boom in MMS sending, as people around the UK swapped pictures of their white covered streets and snowman efforts.

    And now Orange is predicting that with the snow...

  • Millions at risk from texting while walking

    Millions at risk from texting while walking

    Could you be putting yourself in danger? 20 September 2010 11:00 GMT

    Millions of people could be at risk from texting while walking along busy streets as they are oblivious to the dangers around them, according to new research.

    According to Dr Joanna Lumsden of Aston University, one in 10 mobile phone users...

  • Mitch Winehouse endorses SaferTaxi text service

    Mitch Winehouse endorses SaferTaxi text service

    They tried to make me go in a minicab - I said no, no, no! 17 August 2010 14:34 GMT

    There are some horrifying statistics surrounding unlicensed minicabs: 5000 British women are attacked each year by the drivers, but 20 per cent of the UK's female population still get in a taxi without checking whether they're licensed or not. It's...

  • Woman hires hitman via text message

    Woman hires hitman via text message

    7 to 9 years for being an idiot 24 November 2008 13:02 GMT

    A woman from Oklahoma plotted to have her lover's wife kidnapped and possibly killed, but used text messages to organise the crime.

    32-year-old Tonia Mullins is now facing a long spell in jail after conspiring with her lover, 26-year-old...

  • Zi Corp signs phone speech to text tech deal. Phones, Mobile phones, Mobile phone apps, Text messages, Voice recognition 0

    Zi Corp signs phone speech to text tech deal

    Partners up with TravellingWave for new possibilities in mobile messaging 30 October 2008 13:10 GMT

    Two mobile phone software developers have teamed up to improve the predictive text and speech to text tech that is currently available to phone users.

    TravellingWave and Zi Corporation have signed a non-exclusive integration license to effectively...

  • Brits sending 217 million texts per day. Phones, Mobile phones, Biz, Statistics, Text messages 0

    Brits sending 217 million texts per day

    Up 60m daily on last year 29 October 2008 17:22 GMT

    Perhaps it's because money is tight, but it seems more and more of us Brits are opting to send texts instead of calling our pals.

    According to the latest research by the Mobile Data Association, we have sent, on average, 60 million more text...

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