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Txt to save power

One free power saving tip arrives on your cellphone each day. This is one way to keep people engaged and informed.

Free text POWER to 3642 and get FREE power saving tips direct to your mobile.

[Via Powersavers: Get free powersaving tips straight to your mobile!.]

If you txt that number you’re added to a distribution list — which isn’t very clear from the quoted section above. Once you send that txt, a reply lets you know you’ll now receive a maximum of one text message per day, and that you can send ‘Stop’ to be removed from the distribution list.

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June 22, 2008   No Comments

Novels at 140 per

A cellphone can traditionally handle 140 characters in each txt message. What can you do with that? In Japan, a lot:

Novels written and delivered on cell phones have been a huge fad in Japan, with 5 of the 10 bestselling novels of 2007 in the island nation originally composed on cell phones.

[Via Read/WriteWeb: Quillpill: Cell Phone Novels Escape Japan.]

What can you do with that?

June 20, 2008   No Comments