May 26, 2012

New Year SMS peak

some people are addicted to SMS

I filed a story today about Optus expecting a record number of text messages to be sent in Australia on New Year’s Eve. I thought it was one of those quirky yarns that people would be interested to read. Optus expects customers to send a record 57 million text messages and make 67 million mobile [...]

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Google Voice SMS

Google Voice SMS

I mentioned on October 4 how I’d managed to sign up for Google Voice (USA) from Australia, but didn’t know what to do with it. Well, thanks to the assistance of regular American commenters Sue and Delmer, I’ve at least been able to play experiment with it. Delmer from Ohio left a voicemail on my [...]

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Text messaging

some people are addicted to SMS

I use text messages sparingly. Usually it’s when I want to reach someone urgently (quicker than email), but I don’t want to disturb them or I know they can’t be disturbed. Sometimes I SMS staff if they’re out of the office on a job. Many people are addicted to SMS though. My 15-year-old daughter sends [...]

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Yakedi! and Frog CMS

Yakedi! free SMS

I haven’t written much tech/web stuff here lately and I don’t plan to change that. I still experiment with various so-called web 2.0 services and site design, but nothing has really grabbed my attention lately with two exceptions. Yakedi! is a free Australian service for sending SMS messages from the web. There are no strings [...]

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