Take note of the “New Feature: Text this to your cellphone” line above.
Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the “text this to me” feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a [...]
Posted February 28, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: catalog, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, library catalogs, scriblio, sms, text this to me, txt. 5 Comments.
Old instructions that connect the Mac OS X Address Book app to a phone via Bluetooth from O’Reilly and SillyDog. Once paired, the Address Book can initiate dialing, notify the user of incoming calls, and send SMS texts.
Bluetooth Texter SMS Widget, message2net, and BluePhoneElite all offer further tools to interact with your Bluetooth-connected mobile phone. [...]
Posted August 16, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: applescript, bluetooth, cell phone, mac, mac os X, sms, texting. 9 Comments.
College sports are big business, so recruiting student athletes is big business. The NCAA limits the times coaches and recruiters can call or visit athletes, but text messages are all fair game. For now.
The Chronicle of Higher Education explained in an October 2006 story:
Before Chandler Parsons committed to play basketball for the University of Florida, [...]
Posted April 26, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ban, college sports, communication, ncaa, recruiting, sms, student athletes, text messages, text messaging, texting. 2 Comments.
We’ve got OCR. We’ve got cameraphones. We’ve got web-based license plate lookup services. Amazon Japan has a fancy cameraphone-based product search feature. What’s more naive, imagining that somewhere somebody has a SMS/MMS-based license plate snooping and facial recognition services and fingerprint scanners, or imagining that they don’t?
cameraphone, civil liberties, facial recognition, license plate recognition, mms, [...]
Posted November 6, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: cameraphone, civil liberties, facial recognition, license plate recognition, mms, mobile technology, picture phone, privacy, sms, snooping. Be the first one.
I happened to stumble back onto the Pew Internet Report on teens and technology from July 2005 that report that told us “87% of [US children] between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.” But the part I’d missed before regarded how these teens were using communication technology:
Email, once the cutting edge “killer app,” [...]
Posted April 10, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: aim, aol instant messenger, communication, im, instant messaging, instant messenger, short message service, sms, Technology, teens, the death of email, youth. 4 Comments.
SMS to construction sign (at Engadget and Textually), and SMS to megaphone — for the armchair protester (at Textually and Engadget).
sms, integration, megaphone
Posted October 29, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink. Tags: integration, megaphone, sms. One Comment.
Though we imagine the Dutch to be a rather unexcitable lot, I did anyway, it turns out they have a history of getting rowdy at football games (yes, if this all happened back in the States I be calling it “soccer”). So it can’t be so much of a surprise that fans rioted again in [...]
Posted September 1, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: 5-0, agps, cell phone, cellphone, crime, engadget, feyenoord, football, gps, hooliganism, location aware, location aware technology, mobile, mobile phone, mobile phone companies, mobile phone numbers, police, police investigation, riot, rioters, rioting, sms, sms message, sms messaging, soccer. 2 Comments.
My friend Will was in meetings all day Friday, and there are few better times to have SMS messaging than in meetings. Thing is, I didn’t want to type on my phone’s numeric keypad when I had my computer in front of me, so I went looking for the details of this old hint that [...]
Posted June 28, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: aim client, aim to sms, email to sms, ichat, mobile text, send sms messages, sms, sms gateway, sms gateways, sms messaging, texting, web to sms. 28 Comments.