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...

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

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

Alyster is hunting for some assistance in Taiwan: Hi, can anyone recommend to me aggregator whom provide premium sms short code for taiwan urgently - thanks Any suggestions?

Clickatell (SMS Text News sponsors) were in San Francisco today at the RSA Data Security Conference showcasing their on-demand authenticator SMS service. For a while now I've firmly believed that this is the way to go. I used to have to carry around a SecurID card with me everywhere I went just in case I

I've been using Pingie for a while now. It's a really, really simple RSS-to-email and RSS-to-SMS service that is just genius. You can follow SMS Text News on multiple mediums — RSS (of course), web, Jaiku, Twitter — but if you're in America and you'd like text updates (standard rates apply), Pingie delivers.

Over at Mobile Industry Review (formerly known as SMS Text News), Ewan MacLeod has started to compile the Who’s Who of the mobile industry. An extract of the full list is below - see mobileindustryreview.com for the growing list. Patrick Smith, Joshua PR Sue Forbes, Motorola Good Technology Group Steve Ives, Taptu Rodrigue Ullens, Voxbone Nick Ris, MX Telecom

I was sent a note about this text service by SMS Text News reader, Alfie. The service, The Real State of the Union, will apparently turn your mobile handset into a ‘George Bush Lie Detector'. The President is due to do a State of the Union speech shortly - and it will quite

Sony have jumped ahead on the megapixel category with their latest handset, the C905 Cyber-shot. Of course, as Dan Lane (regular contributor to the SMS Text News podcast) points out, megapixels aren't necessarily indicative of photo quality per se. However if the C905 is anything like Sony's K800 or K850 series handsets, it'll

When I'm in the SMS Text News office, I generally blog with my Windows Vista machine — principally because it's got two 29.5" monitors and, thus, a lot of deskspace for Twitter feeds, browser windows, email, instant messages and so on. Other than that, I strictly use the Apple operating system for everything else.