Posts filed under “Mobile Life”

Twit, Plurk through SMS using Ping.fm and YM

With new social networking sites that followed Twitter, Plurk, and Jaiku, a social networker like me couldn’t help but wish that I could update all my services at the same time. Hellotxt.com and Ping.fm made it possible.

But what if I want to use my cellphone — particularly the text messaging service, since connecting to GPRS or 3G remains costly? Today, I learned that it is also possible with the help of Ping.fm and Yahoo! Messenger for SMS.

TXTPower rejects anew tax on text

Consumer group TXTPower says the proposed 20-centavo text tax is “an insult to the intelligence of the people and a slap in the face of people in the midst of crisis.”