When my phone rings I generally cringe, not because I am hiding from anyone or expecting any bad news, I simply do not like to talk on the phone. Me personally, I would much rather get an email or text message instead of a phone call. Or even a Facebook message would be a better more »

Just before last weekend started, it was discovered that some people were able to login to others Facebook accounts due to some “routing problem” with AT&T. It seems that at least some users were able to login and view the Facebook account of total strangers. According to AT&T; “In a limited number of instances, a more »

T-Mobile announced it will allow its customers to place calls to Haiti for free and it would also waive charges on calls coming from the earthquake stricken country. The free calls will be retroactive to January 12th and continue through January 31st. Additionally, T-Mobile customers in Haiti will be given free roaming. President and CEO more »

In an effort to further give myself over to Google and make myself that much more dependent on Gmail, there has recently been a new feature released in the labs that should keep me (and other Google Voice users) locked in Gmail a little longer. That new feature goes along with the SMS to email more »

Google has just recently added a new, and what I would consider a welcomed feature in Google Voice — the ability to have your SMS messages forwarded to your email. The new feature is currently available and simple to set up. To do so, just login to your Google Voice account and click on the more »

By now, we’re all pretty much aware of SMS and MMS messages. We’re also probably aware of the drawbacks, such as the fact that you can never be sure that the person is going to actually respond to the text message. A new system is on its way that will solve the eternal question of “will they ever return my text, or are they too busy playing WoW to care?” as well as a few others.

The new system is called Mobile Enhanced Messaging is the next logical step in phone messaging from the text/picture/video messaging side. The most important feature is that you can have a conversation with more than two people, so there’s no more asking a bunch of people what they want in a single message, and relating each person’s response. The conversations can be through text, images, video, audio, and “other future content” which I assume must mean holograms.