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Your table is ready – text message from ReadyPing
There is now an ingenious and brilliant service from ReadyPing that allows restaurants to text message their guests to let them know that they can be seated. To get started, the only thing the restaurant has to do is to sign up for an account. Then they will enter the guest’s name, party size and…
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Lenovo ThinkPad users can now shut down their stolen laptops via sms
Starting in 2009, Lenovo ThinkPad notebook users can use an SMS text message to shut down a laptop that has been stolen or has been lost. This new feature, called Lenovo Constant Secure Remote Disable, it was developed in conjunction with Phoenix Technologies to work with the ThinkPad’s BIOS. This new security feature allows a…
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Google testing SMS chat feature for online to mobile chatting
Google is testing a handy new feature for its web application of chat in the Gmail box of features. Users can SMS their existing Gmail chat contacts by opening a chat window and selecting the option to send an SMS. Once you enter their phone numbers, it will save the digits in your contact entries.…
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EU caps sms rates at 11 Euro cents from next July
We had mentioned the news about the concerns expressed by the EU on fluctuating sms roaming rates, they have finally come to groundbreaking solution. The EU is all set to make mobile phone operators reduce their roaming charges when visiting neighboring countries in Europe. Under plans due to be announced today, the cost of sending…
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New study says texting while driving equals drunk driving
An SMS can be your lifesaver and your debt trap in Sweden, with its swift banking transactions done over the mobile. However, that’s not the case here in the US; a new study is showing how dangerous texting can be while driving a car. It even goes as far as to say that tapping out…
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Text messaging makes you dumber
If the radiation and cancer were not enough, aul Saffo, a technology trend forecaster in Silicon Valley claims that sending text messages lowers your IQ – 10 points to be precise. “The act of texting automatically removes 10 I.Q. points. “The truth of the matter is there are hobbies that are incompatible. You don’t want…
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US Senator asks cell phone carriers to give sms users some slack
Taking a hint from the recently proposed cap on sms roaming costs by The European Commission, the US Senate Judiciary Committee is asking four top wireless carriers to justify the “sharply rising rates” they charge people to send and receive text messages. Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl is very concerned about the rising text messaging rates.…
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EU proposes to cap fluctuating roaming SMS costs
A Belgian woman on vacation in Spain received a bill for €18,889 ($27,119) from her operator for Internet surfing. She was billed at €9.68($13.7) a megabyte. When outside their country, exchange students, back-packers, brides, and bridesmaids on hen parties in Tallinn pay on average ten times for a text message—or SMS—than what they do domestically.…
