Wired on how relief workers in and volunteers are using social networking tools to aid relief efforts in Haiti, suggesting that something new and unprecedented is happening in humanitarian response. Relief workers in Haiti received an emergency text message Tuesday about a collapsed school, with children still alive in the rubble. A search-and-rescue team on the scene, however, couldn’t find the ...

A woman whose partner lost his NSW property to bushfire has attacked the Rural Fire Service's new emergency warning text message system for failing to provide enough details about the approaching blaze. The Australian reports. Ms Jackson and Mr Liepin received an emergency text message from the RFS at about 6pm on Thursday, saying: "Immediate threat to Tinderry Rd, Jerangle Rd, Calabash Rd. S...

As of this week, callers can now text their requests for fire, police, or ambulance, to the emergency call center in Black Hawk County, Iowa -- both a nationwide first and a definite improvement for deaf and hard-of-hearing residents who have thus far had to rely on TDD devices. Unlike voice calls, however, the 911 operator can't get your location from a text message, meaning that the caller ...

Automated voice to text message service 'transcribed' by Philippine call centres

Clickatell's text messaging service is used by more than 8,000 business customers across the globe. Below is one example of how Clickatell has been used successfully for UK's National Health Service (NHS), allowing people needing healthcare information to access it via SMS. The SMS-based service allows subscribers to access a wealth of health information via text message. Users can creat...

Right Mobile Phone, an online mobile phone retailer in the UK, recently conducted a survey of 3,138 British people to find out how their mobile phone impacted the emotions they feel over a given day. Here are some of the results: 71% say using their favorite song as their alarm clock, versus the system default or

Optus announced today the launch of its Voice to Text service. Optus Voice to Text will allow Optus’ mobile customers to convert spoken VoiceMail messages into text and receive them as a text message on their mobile phone.Continue reading...

Beyond160 lets you send an SMS with more than 160 characters, the limit CDMA users have on a text message. With this app, users can type unlimited text messages on their Verizon, Sprint, Alltel, U.S. Cellular, etc. BlackBerry devices. Purchase Beyond160 for $3.50 (normally $6.99). © BlackBerry Cool for BlackBerry Cool, 2009

If you are in or near mobile, then chances are you are around a lot of voices. All of these voices vie for your attention - whether its a call, text message, music and multimedia, and even the vibration of something happening towards the former three items. Its because of this personal and very immediate stimuli that mobile has been a disruptive technology for so many people. Its introduction to l...

AT&T has launched a new service that will transcribe voicemails to text and then deliver them to a user's handset via text message, email or both. Users can respond to or forward voicemails via text, email or voice and ...