Treasuremytext 2.0

Treasuremytext is a free online service that allows you to forward any SMS to them for archiving. They have numbers setup in several countries for the service where you can forward your SMS. Forward any text and the message immediately shows up on their site. You can save memorable tweets, jokes and other messages you want to keep. There are no limits and Treasuremytext don't make any additional charges on the messages you send. Archived messages can be public or private. Treasuremytext also gives you your own URL and an RSS feed for your archived messages.

Ask.com Mobile free Service

Search engine, Ask.com, has launched a new and free mobile service that enables users to search the Web on any Web-enabled device including mobile phones, Blackberries and PDAs.
Ask Mobile Content, the new service has a special interface developed specifically to save mobile users significant keystrokes while surfing the Internet on their mobile devices.

Information Utilities for your Mobile Phone

A host of useful mobile utilities including a Spell Checker, WordNET Dictionary, UK STD Codes, Crossword Finder, Websters Dictionary, Mini Thesaurus, Bible Dictionary, Abbreviations, Stock Quotes, UK Highways Traffic Information and POP Email client are available via a simple WAP connection at MobileQueuery.com. In other worrds there is no application to install all you need to do is bookmark the applications URL in your mobile WAP/WEB browser and you will be able to access the information you require.

Scream when your Mobile Phone is Stolen

A new service from security experts at Remote XT delivers a high-pitch earpiercing sound to your mobile phone when it is reported stolen and a meesage on the phones screen displaying "This phone is stolen".

The phone becomes automatically disabled, with contact numbers, texts, images and emails removed, even if the SIM card is removed rendering the phone useless.

The service works on all mobile carrriers which makes it easy to deploy anywhere.

SMS a Condom

Another use for SMS on your mobile condomtext.com will then send your condoms in a plain envelope
straight to your address. No questions. No Que. No Hassle. Launching on October the 6th.

Create your own Videos to watch on your Mobile Phone for Free

MyMobileClips is a free service that gives the user the option of converting Google Video / YouTube files to 3gp directly over the net. You can also give it a direct link to any link on the web or upload a video from your computer.
It gives you 2 template sizes Large - 176 x 144 which is for Series60 (S60) devices and a Small - 128 x 96. You type in a password and thats it.

To upload a Google or Youtube Video:
1. You get the url from google video or you tube.
2. You go to the correct upload section
3. Paste the url to the video in the box, and click upload.
4. Check back in a few minutes and your video should be done.

You video link will be available for download 24 hours from conversion.

The videos you upload have a 50MB size limit, but for a free service it works great.

Mobile RSS Reader ++++

Hubdog combines a streamlined RSS reader, a podcast player, a unique media search engine, and channels that can be shared among community members.
Hubdog is the first social media news aggregator for pocket pc and desktop PC. It allows you to download news, radio, music and video podcasts, blogs and any RSS feed onto your pocket pc so you can read, listen or watch it at the time and place that best suits you. Best of all it is for free.

PayPal using Text2Buy in the UK

PayPal has expanded its Text 2 Buy service in the UK to include magazine subscriptions and consumer electronics. The rationale is that: “Readers will always have a mobile close by when they’re leafing through a magazine, and the phone can immediately connect the printed page to the wider digital universe in a very personal way,” said Andy Schachtel, president of Mowave. “This service is an important step in introducing consumers to the potential of mobile commerce.”

MiniFiz - Moblog (Mobile Blogging) for girls

When you connect to www.minifizz.com or via a WAP site on your mobile, you first create your own avatar (your Popp’s) and style it as you like with actual clothes and accessories adapted to the Popp’s. Then you start sharing with other members of the community via your FizzBlog or on the Forum.

Stay connected with other MiniFizz members through your FizzBlog. Share your mood, pictures, projects, passions… And comment or answer on so many different topics. Interactivity is a must for girls!

The Community is constantly animated with games, quizzes and contests and you can win many prizes of which the actual clothing and accessories of your Popp’s !

Create a web & mobile universe of multi-facetted girls, with diverse interests, and not at all stereotyped as most services targetting girls are.

When connecting to Canal MiniFizz, a user will become a MiniFizz herself with the creation of her own avatar with her own looks (including piercing, tattoos) using « MiniFizz Popp’s » ; then she can share her life and her emotions with other members of the community in her « FizzBlog » , a web and mobile based blog. Posting an image by MMS or a live comment from wherever we are becomes so easy.

Cell Phone Data Eraser

Your phone contains private data that you may not want others to see like PIN's, photos, contact names and numbers. Before giving your phone to your little sister you might want to get rid of all this data and if you don't know how you can get step-by-step instruction at Wireless Recycling just by entering your phone model.

If your cell phone stores contacts and other information on a SIM card, take the card out. The SIM card doesn't necessarily store all the data on your phone, though. It may store only your phone book, while call logs, photos, memos, and other information might reside in the phone's internal memory.

To get rid of everything, you may need to employ multiple reset commands; and those commands aren't always easy to find in a modern cell phone's complex menus. Many of todays smartphones require you to enter ten different commands to delete all data, including text messages, phone numbers, call timers, and logs. But remember, if you want to keep the numbers stored in your SIM card, by all means remove it before you delete anything!

In a recent article published in the New York Times should get your attention to the dangers of not wiping out your phone data completely.

Personalized Mobile Games

You get to create your own free custom mobile Java game with images you upload from your computer. The game is a shooting game witten using Java Micro edition and the website makes it really easy to create your game using a 3 step wizard or a 5 step advanced wizard. It requires no knowledge of any kind of coding at all.
You either can download the game directly to your wap enabled phone or by email to yourself or to a friend.

Mobile Sign Translation Service

WhereIsHere.Net is a free community driven service whereby you take a picture of any sign or any written matterial upload it to the site with the specifications of what language you wanted translated to and let the WhereIsHere community try and and translate it for you. Once translated you would either recieve an SMS or WapPush of the translation.

It could be a very useful service in multicultural countries where people don't speak the native tongue and for tourists alike.
Hopefully the governments don't offer this as a free service so that they can make more revenue from parking fines !

Wireless Ckeck-In

Marriott International, Inc. a hotel chain has announced that it is trialing a mobile wireless check in system for their custumers. The system is using Microsoft’s Windows Mobile®-powered devices on end-to-end Intel Architecture and is being tested in Redmond Washignton Town Centre.

Source Hospitality.net
In a collaborative effort with Intel® Solution Services and Microsoft®, Marriott is working toward implementing a mobile wireless check-in process that is convenient and easy for guests to use. During testing, guests with Microsoft Windows Mobile-powered Smartphones–running the PocketPC Platform–can simply download and install Marriott’s seamless mobility software from Arrive.Marriott.com. Using the Internet, they can then connect securely to the Redmond Marriott Town Center hotel’s property management system and check in to their room while in transit to the hotel. Guests will also be able to change room types, receive welcome information and reconfirm their room rates. When they arrive at the hotel, guests retrieve their room keys from a conveniently located automated key dispenser in the lobby.

Critical to the test is innovative software developed by Intel Solution Services to Marriott’s requirements that enables guests to check-in while in motion and eliminates the need to restart the check-in process, even if the wireless signal is lost in transit. Information entered by travelers will be automatically restored when the signal is re-established. A future benefit of this project will also enable guests to check in from their office PCs and laptops.

Upon successful completion of the test later this year, Marriott will evaluate requirements for production development and a rollout plan for mobile wireless check-in at its hotels.

Fake Call To Look Cool

A new service that allows you to schedule a fake call at a specific time and date to your mobile number to make you look 'popular', or get you out of an uncomfortable situation.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting.

With "The Popularity Dialer", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that's one half of a conversation. Thus, you will be prompted to have a fake conversation and will easily fool those around you.

Real Estate Appraisals on your mobile

If you are passing by a house and you want to know how much it is worth or home details just use "Zillow Mobile". Currently it’s still a Zillow Labs project and it may have some bugs but give it a try.

Google live traffic Maps on your Mobile Phone

Google has integrated a live traffic feed into its Google Maps for Mobiles application. The service allows you to choose a destination and have Google map out the route for you, and by selecting show traffic “highway traffic information is sent to the phone, with road conditions highlighted in three colors: — red for congested, yellow or orange for slowdowns, and green for smooth sailing”. It’s in “30 major US cities”, including LA, New York and Chicago.

SMS Alerts To Prevent Bouncing Checks

St Georges Bank in Australia is working on an SMS alert system that will give customers a chance to top up their accounts if the bank detects that they're about to become overdrawn. The point of the service is to help consumers and small businesses protect their credit records and reputations. "The key incentive," says Chief information officer John Lobenstein "is to avoid a payment that you intended to make not being paid, another party getting very annoyed with you, and potentially getting you a bad credit record."

They are hoping that this type of mobile alert service will appeal to customers who "run cash-flow tight." Which seems to make sense as these are the types of people that also seem to be on the go the most but would also want to be alerting about their money situations.

However, Lobenstein does point out that the SMS service is not aimed at avoiding dishonour fees as people who opt to receive the the alerts will be forced to pay a dishonor fee if their check or debit payment goes dishonored.

They estimate that the service will cost 35$ a message! What that is about I have no idea but it seems like a lot.

Dishonor fees and bad checks come with a 45-50 dollar penalty.

The service will be tested by users of its South Australia subsidiary, Bank SA, next month.

Rejection without Confrontation

I don’t think anyone could have predicted the massive scale of the ringtone business, even though it seems stalled now, but here’s another completely unlikely success story. The Rejection Hotline is a service for people being pestered for their phone numbers on the dating scene. You simply give out the hotline number and when they call….they’re let down gently.

So, a nice little idea methinks. But then check out the numbers involved. To date, it’s had over 77 million calls and is up to 2 million calls a month.

Moderati, a leading US ringtone provider, has launched a spin off product, the Rejection Ringtone. So just in case you get so flustered and give away your real number, so can still tell unwanted callers to take a hike.

SMS warning for the Lebanese

Several news reports have mentioned today that the Israeli military is alerting residents in southern Lebanon to impending strikes by, among other methods, SMS. Besides dropping leaflets and utlizing local radio, the IDF is contacting locals in the Tyre area by mass SMS telling them to leave the area. According to Textually, Israeli start-up Cellact has been offering the system in the region as a means of alerting residents to emergency events. This isn't the only use of SMS in the conflict so far, however. Swedish officials have used SMS to round up evacuees in Lebanon and tell them where to gather, as have the French.

Get an SMS from your washing machine

The Internet Home Alliance, an organization comprised of high tech companies such as HP and Microsoft as well as P&G and Whirlpool, have begun an eight-week pilot to test the concept of an intelligent washing machine. The mobile angle? The machine is tied into a home network that can alert you via SMS, as well as messages on the TV, that your laundry is done. Thus spake the managers of Laundry Time:

"To be conducted in Atlanta homes between today and early September, Laundry Time is built around a connected laundry solution that links a washer and dryer to a home network and sends text messages about the laundry's progress to a computer, TV and/or cell phone. This revolutionary technology enables consumers to manage the laundry process from remote locations such as a grocery store or soccer game, freeing them up to go about their day rather than forcing them to stay home to manage the process.

'Generally, most people tend to 'batch' their laundry -- washing and drying at the same time -- and they stay home during the hours it takes to manage the laundry process,' said Carol Priefert, Senior Product Development Manager, Whirlpool Corporation. 'Whirlpool research shows that the average consumer "batches" about six and a half loads one day per week, while heavy users may "batch" as many as 15 loads. Laundry Time will test ways to make it easier for people to manage the process remotely or while doing other things around the home.'

Isn't that what the buzzer is for?