Tag: Messages
Would you pay real money to message UK celebs on Facebook? Because now you can!
How much would you pay to get the ear of one of your favourite celebrities? Facebook are banking on it being a pretty penny, today beginning the roll out of their pay-to-message-celebs program to UK users too. Launching initially in…
Users of Bebo have sent their messages into space
Of all the people in the world you’d like to have communicating with alien leaders in a potential “first contact” scenario, would Bebo users really be the #1 choice? Well, that’s what’s happening, as the social networking site’s users’ suggestions for images and text to send into space as part of its ‘A Message From Earth’ project have been… sent into space.
501 messages from Bebo users – including photos of Richard and Judy and pop band McFly’s opinions on Cheryl Cole – were sent off from Ukraine’s National Space Agency yesterday in a fantastic waste of everyone’s time. Here’s Bebo’s sensational illustration of how sending messages into space works:
The messages will take a shade over 20 years…
U SND 200 MLN TXTS 2DAY, INNIT
Incredibly, the number of text messages us lot in the UK send is continuing to rise, according to the Mobile Data Association.
The MDA reckons we’re burning through our free text allowance at a rate of 200 million text messages a day, which, by my maths, is nearly four texts per person every day – a rise of 30% over the number we sent last year…
These are the engravings Apple doesn’t want on your iPod
I’ve never actually considered the fact that Apple might reject some of the messages customers ask to engrave on the backs of their iPods, or that people would be stupid enough to ask for some of these things.
Luckily this website has popped together a list of some of the messages Apple has denied, including ‘10,000 stolen tunes inside’, ‘cocaine…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 25-July-07: QANTAS, SMS, iPhone, Suda51, WoW
– QANTAS to offer in-flight internet and laptop power in new Airbus A380s planes (Daily Tech)
– Text messaging turns 15 years of age this year (Engadget)…