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10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment We're children of the internet and life without cut and paste is like living with one arm tied behind the back - especially when it comes to swapping the web's official currency: URLs. SMS/MMS… There's plenty that's great about the new iPhone, says... [14 Jul 2008]
SMS snitch pilot targets knife crime in schools
News Posters (see image below) urge children to text details of potential offenders, such as their name, nickname, school and year. Talks and/or workshops are also conducted in the target schools to ensure children are fully informed. [03 Jun 2008]
Domino's Pizza delivers SMS ordering
News One instance where the service is useful is where parents want to order for their children but they want to pay for it themselves. Hungry customers of Domino's Pizza are now able to place their order via SMS, building on the chain's internet... [17 Aug 2007]
India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life
Comment It's even had 53 children born in its ambulances. He sends the details to the driver by SMS and calls to double check. Then a snake-bite victim, and then an attempted suicide, before an accident in a railway yard. [05 Mar 2007]
Leader: The kids today...
Leader And the users they will be modelling their own future experiences upon will be their children and their friends' children. And it's not all 'happy slapping' and SMS bullying either, whatever you might read in the Daily Mail. [03 May 2006]
When does free really mean free?
News It's tightened up its code of conduct in relation to how suppliers can use the word 'free', due to fears that children are being targeted by unscrupulous or unclear mobile ringtone and wallpaper marketing. [28 Feb 2005]
RFID chips on kids makes Legoland safer
News Children entering the parks will be fitted with an RFID bracelet that can be tracked anywhere within its boundaries - meaning that should they run off and find themselves lost, the parks' staff will easily be able to track them down and alert... [24 Jun 2004]
Mobile guidelines to bar kids from adult content
News Children will be blocked from accessing chatrooms, online gambling, mobile gaming and adult websites via their mobile phones under new guidelines officially unveiled today. Mobile operators 3, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Virgin Mobile have... [19 Jan 2004]
Cyber cops get forensics code
News Just last month the Soham family police liaison officer Detective Constable Brian Stevens was cleared of 11 charges of possession and distribution of indecent photographs of children after the prosecution admitted a computer expert had made... [26 Sep 2003]
Industry outlines SMS implications of Euro-spam offensive
News Commenting on the evolution of spam, from faxes, to chat rooms, to email and now SMS, MessageLabs VP marketing David Kehoe said: "The concern with the 3G element is the ability to deliver graphical pictures and the fact that we are all concerned... [23 Jul 2003]
Schools use SMS to tackle truancy
News A survey of 50 schools involved in the scheme by unified messaging company Voice Connect saw an average reduction in truancy rates by two per cent and found it took 25 minutes to contact all parents of children absent that day compared to an... [28 May 2003]
Killer flu in Asia - internet and mobile networks play key role
News On Wednesday, the country's education and health ministries decided to shut down all Singapore schools until 6 April to ease fears among parents that crowded environments could heighten the risk of infection among children. [31 Mar 2003]
Mobile boffins giving out good vibrations
News Using the rubber phones angry girlfriends, for example, would be able to give their wayward boyfriends a remote 'slap on the wrist' while children will doubtless delight in buzzing each other relentlessly - and it doesn't take a great deal of... [25 Apr 2002]
The best of 'Reader Comments': More mobile health fears, BBC selling out and Orange network woes
Comment Our children and young people are exposed to enough advertisements without being bombarded with them when they are trying to revise for exams or do homework. It can take anything up to 12 hours for SMS messages to get to and from his phone but mine... [03 Nov 2000]
