PhoneBoy, other wise known as Dameon Welch-Abernathy (that's definitely Scottish descent, it must be!), has been kind enough to take some time out his schedule and answer some questions from SMS Text News. Although intimately acquainted with Nokia (Dameon's day job is technical writing for one of the Product Line Support groups inside of

SMS Text News contributor, James Whatley, was telling me the other day he thoroughly enjoyed using the new (beta) Nokia SportsTracker service. It's designed primarily for joggers who want to track their progress using their phone and it's GPS element. Unfortunately James forgot to switch it off on his train ride to London and

SMS Text News reader Olly has been giving a lot of thought to the platform vs browser phenomenon rapidly developing across the mobile industry (and, actually, the desktop industry too — I move friction free between PC, Apple, Nokia, iPhone, HTC). Take a read… - - - There's a weird, but not entirely unexpected, phenomenon

The Italian Supreme Court has ruled against Telecom Italia's attempt to fire an employee who sent more than 12,000 private text messages from his work phone. UPI via SMS Text News. "The Cassation Court overturned a 2002 ruling by a Naples tribunal that permitted the telecommunications company to fire the employee, identified as Carlo T., after he incurred more than $2,000 in text messaging ch...

There is nothing worse than standing next to someone who's phone is running faster than yours. It just isn't cricket and it's nigh on unbearable for me. With fellow SMS Text News contributors, James Whatley and Ben Smith this evening, I was the pauper in the corner. With a top of the range E90 handset. I was trying

In an effort to promote its highly touted ‘Comes with Music‘ service, Nokia, the leading handset manufacturer has now started placing special benches at various public places in the UK. SMS Text News reports via Music Radar. The benches are actually a clever advertising medium to promote their ‘Comes with Music’ service here in the UK. These benches are fitted with Nokia’s handsets and headph...

Lypp, the GEEENIUS conference calling service has just launched an Outlook plugin. It's really smart. Have a look at the screenshots showing how it works. I totally forgot they have a recording and RSS feed service. I think I might give this one a go for international SMS Text News podcasts. I'll talk

Nokia, Tampere University and the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired have created the Nokia Braille Reader. The Nokia Braille Reader gives the visually-impaired and blind a way to read SMS text messages via Braille. The app captures received SMS messages and brings them to the foreground for reading using Braille and tactile feedback. The app beeps when an SMS message is receive...

Ricky (from BlykWatch) here, I was going through my junk mail and picked this up. Free SMS Alerts when you are more likely to burn from the sun. It is a campaign from Teenage Cancer Trust and you can see full details about the campaign here. Here at SMS Text News we are a big

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