2025 1

Phone Rage and an OTP Flood

I called a few movers in Chennai, including “Unicorn Packers & Movers”, listed at 7015580411. He couldn’t understand what I said. I said, “We’re shifting to a house in Mylapore,” and he asked, “Shifting house where in Hyderabad?” (The reason became clear later.) It seemed I had the wrong number, so I said, “No, sorry, we need someone else,” and hung up. His phone rage began. He called back and said, “Why did you wake me up and waste my time?” From his tone it was clear I couldn’t say anything helpful. From the quality of my signal it was clear I couldn’t have a meaningful conversation. So I just put the phone down without cutting it. ...

2006 1

Create Google calendar events via SMS

Create Google calendar events via SMS. Just SMS 48368 (in the US) with a message like “dinner tomorrow 7pm”. 48368? GVENT?

2002 5

Multimedia Messaging Service

MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service. I take a photo, and send it by SMS. I take a video, and post it on my weblog through my cell phone. Nice.

SMS Weblog

An SMS Weblog. That’s a cool idea.

Receiving mail on a mobile

Several ways of receiving mail on a mobile phone.

NetXCell

I can send SMS via the Web through NetXCell. Neat.

The deaf use mobile phones

The deaf use mobile phones through SMS. Good idea.