Unicef launches free SMS number for Nepalese youths April 29, 2010
Unicef Tuesday launched a free SMS number for youths in Nepal so they could text in their views and comments on issues that concern them to the global organisation.
The number 4400 is a toll-free mobile text message service that allows users to send messages directly to the Unicef in Nepal, Xinhua reported.
The number is being launched in partnership with the popular radio show ‘Saathi Sanga Manka Kura’ (SSMK), a youth oriented radio programme run by Equal Access Nepal.
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Mobile phones to serve doctors in developing countries. April 26, 2010
“There are 2.2 billion mobile phones in the developing world, 305 million computers but only 11 million hospital beds,” said Terry Kramer, strategy director at British operator Vodafone at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona this week. That’s why Vodafone, along with the United Nations and the Rockerfeller Foundation’s mHealth Alliance have banded together to advance the use of mobile phones to better aid those in need of healthcare in the developing world.
The new alliance wants to guide governments, NGOs, and mobile firms on how mobile technology can be used to help save lives.
Already, mobile technology is providing …
Email This PostGOMOTEXT releases–one of its kind iPhone App April 20, 2010
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Email This PostVoters Can Report Fraud With Text Message System April 14, 2010
In an unprecedented effort to make the current elections in Sudan more transparent, voters there can report instances of election fraud through a mobile SMS text message system. The initiative is a joint effort by Sudanese citizen groups, mobile operators and the U.S. State Department.”Election monitors or citizens can text in any election-related problems: missing ballots, polls closing too early, acts of voter intimidation,” said Katie Jacobs Stanton, new media director at the State Department. “We want this to be a free and fair election.”Sudan’s first multiparty vote in 24 years started Sunday, even though opposition parties announced two weeks …
Email This PostPost via sms April 12, 2010
Australia Post has earmarked the system for outer metropolitan areas, outlining the changes in a 12-page brochure presented to councils, News Ltd says.
Door-to-door services would cease and residents would travel to “community hubs'’ where as many as 1200 post boxes would be located.
Swipe cards and pin codes would be used to open the boxes, which would be large enough to fit an A4 envelope.
Residents would be notified by SMS text messages to their mobile phones that they had new mail to collect.
Email This Post5 billion SMS/day April 9, 2010
Text messaging continues to be enormously popular, with more than 822 billion text messages sent and received on carriers’ networks during the last half of 2009—amounting to almost 5 billion messages per day at the end of the year. During the 2009 calendar year, there were more than 1.5 trillion text messages reported on carriers’ networks. Wireless subscribers are also sending more pictures and other multimedia messages with their mobile devices—more than 24.2 billion MMS messages were reported for the last half of 2009. That’s more than double the number from the previous year, when only 9.3 billion were reported …
Email This PostSMS system for rapid response to forest fires April 7, 2010
In a bid to cut response time to forest fires, the Forest Survey of India (FSI) — using satellite information from the University of Maryland — has begun sending out instant SMSes to forest staff and civilians when a forest fire is detected via the satellite.
This year, there have been above 3,000 forest fires, with many days witnessing more than 500 forest fires. And while there have been several fires in the hot forests of Central India, (Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Chhattisgarh), newer areas of wildfires have also emerged.
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Email This PostData Traffic Outstripped Voice Traffic Last Year April 2, 2010
Mobile data has been growing at a fast clip since the iPhone went on sale almost three years ago. But with the introduction of many more data-focused devices, the industry continues to break records.In a report released today, telecom consultant Chetan Sharma tallied up the financial statements of carriers from around the world to get a comprehensive look exactly what happened last year. For the first time ever, he said that on a global basis mobile phones were used more for accessing data than they were to make calls, and that global data traffic …
