At least it could if you’re as dim-witted as these two clowns. Nevertheless, this story should serve as a warning to all you unfaithful and pot-head mobile-fans. Always check to see if your SMS text message recipient is actually your intended recipient. Otherwise you could end up divorced or in jail.
India now has more than 200 million mobile phone users
See, it’s not just China who’s growing like crazy in terms of number of mobile phone users. As a matter of fact they may be the world’s fastest growing economy, but it’s India which at the moment gets more mobile phone users every month. After adding another eight million subscribers last month, Indian mobile phone…
Get $10,000 from YouNeverCall for calling your home from Moon
In order to get some press attention, YouNeverCall just announced their $10,000 prize award for the first cell phone call placed from the Moon. The new award is kinda cheap when compared with Google’s earlier announcement of $30 million in prize money for landing a craft on the moon by December 31, 2014. Then again,…
Tracking Zebras with GPS and mobile technology
Again, it’s nice to see mobile tech being used in the new innovative ways. Just a month ago, we posted how the technology is used for tracking the owls. Now, we have U.S. researches using social networking software along with mobile technology and GPS to track Zebras. The idea is to follow the interaction between…
Testing the limits of text emergency alert messaging
Although we’ve seen SMS being used to alert people in some regions around the world, we still have to see it used on a large scale — hopefully this is something that won’t ever happen. Still, if something (God forbid) happens, it’s useful to know whether and how will people be alerted via SMS. That’s…
Myanmar: Mobile phones as weapons of politics
While we refer from writing about politics, this piece is about misuse of the mobile technology. The best way to fight the opposition is to kill their channels of communication. That seems exactly what the Myanmar’s military government is doing with their latest move. Apparently, they’ve cut off the mobile phones of prominent pro-democracy supporters,…
Haunted Theme Park goes mobile; Announces Text2Scream attractions
Don’t you just love to see technology going way beyond the “geek realm.” Somehow, that makes me feel normal again. 🙂 Anyway, Pennsylvania’s Premier Haunted Theme Park, Shocktoberfest, recently announced the new Text2Scream attractions, allowing park visitor to interact with animated props in scare zones found throughout the park using their mobile phones. Once you’ve…
Numbers: China has more than 600 million mobile phone users
The Chinese bride pictured above is just one of more than 600 million mobile phone users in the “world’s fastest growing economy.” The latest figures from China are staggering — there are 40.56 million more mobile phone users than there were at the end of last year. This translates that Chinese mobile phone carriers added…
Math teacher assigns sexually-charged SMS text messaging homework
So, there’s this math teacher in Grand Prairie, Texas. He’s evidently a little wacky in the head and perhaps even a bit bored with his job. What’s a bored, and possibly sexually deviant math teacher to do? Well, MyFox Dallas reports that this guy assigned his 6th-grade math class a homework assignment in which the…
Horror: Children suicide bombers “work” for a mobile phone?
While on one side we love the mobile technology and the way it changes/improves our lives, on the other, we keep getting surprised just how misused it can be in the wrong hands. The latest news we caught is probably one of the worst case scenarios of misusing the mobile phones. According to UN, children…