“The WSJ says that at Taliban checkpoints littered across the Afghan backroads and countryside, insurgents will take travelers’ phones and check contacts, music, and videos. If you’ve got songs or media they think disobey Islamic rules, they might do anything from breaking your phone over your head to making you eat your SIM card. Or […]
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“A new breed of messaging services and mobile Voice over IP clients like Skype are already eating into carrier revenues according to a new study. Commissioned by mobile infrastructure solutions provider Mavenir Systems, interviews with 31 mobile network operators around the world found that one-third of carriers are already seeing voice traffic and SMS revenue […]
“Ushahidi worked with Al-Jazeera to track events on the ground in Gaza via SMS messages, email, or the web. Events were then sent in by reporters and civilians through the platform and put into a Twitter feed entitled AJGaza, which gave the event a time stamp. By cross-checking with other sources such as Reuters, the […]
“Twitter users can now post photos by attaching them to simple SMS messages. SMS has always been an important part of Twitter’s platform, especially in places with low smartphone penetration. In August, Twitter made it possible to follow, tweet and view account info using only SMS. This small but important Twitter update keeps the simple social network ahead of […]
