8 trillion SMS were sent last year by the 6 billion mobile-phone users world-wide! SMS is the world’s biggest form of written communication, in terms of users. The first SMS was “Merry Christmas” sent in December 1992 by the British engineer Neil Papworth from his computer.
Loop Mobile launched a live traffic SMS alerts service, directly sourced from the Mumbai Traffic Police control room. To subscribe, send a message SUB TRAFF to 53535 or dial the USSD code *888*8#. It is charged at Re 1 per day for prepaid and Rs 30 per month for postpaid users.
EboBirthday is an Android app that maintain birthdays and anniversaries by sending sms and emails to your friends with multiple themes with different layout. It can be auto-synced with the contacts’ notes and grab birthday data from Windows Mobile, Facebook, CSV, Phonebook etc.
SMS2Gmail helps you to forward SMS and call information to Gmail account. This application allows you to forward your SMS messages and missed calls to a user defined gmail account, and you can activate it remotely and can sends both phone number and name of SMS sender.
Cyber criminals are launching sophisticated attacks on U.S. wireless consumers. According to Cloudmark, financial fraud and spam via SMS texts is growing at a rate of over 300 percent year over year. There are over 20 unique SMS attacks with thousands of variants on each attack.
