Text Messages
Be aware: Your handset can spy on you
October 20, 2009A technique called cell site analysis can be used to track someone to within 10 to 15 metres, using cellphone masts to triangulate their position. GPS can give more detailed information, such as your altitude or the speed you are traveling at. If someone...
FWIW: Abbreviations increasingly used in text messaging, tweets..
August 18, 2009Messengers, chats, text messages, tweets and other online social networks have led to an increase use of abbreviations. Because the use of electronic media requires users to be brief, sentences are now being transmitted with five letters or less. Users...
The sound of Christmas: beep, beep, beep
December 24, 2006Sydney - Australia's biggest phone company expects to set a record and relay 22 million text messages on Christmas Day. The current record for text messaging is the 16 million sent on December 25 last year, Telstra spokesman Peter Taylor said Saturday...