SMS technology may have revolutionised the world, but too much of texting could be damaging for your child.
Rebel Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Kabir Suman, whose sympathetic stand towards Maoists and outbursts against alleged in-house corruption embarassed the party, on Monday night quit the organisation and from the Lok Sabha.
The ban on SMS services on post-paid mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir was lifted by the authorities in Srinagar on Wednesday evening.The ban had been imposed by the authorities after separatist groups used the service to publicise their protest calendars.In a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in Jammu, a decision was taken to revoke the ban on SMS services in Jammu and Kashmir on all post-paid connections after reviewing the security situation.
The directions follow a report by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, which has seen a new pattern of transnational cyber-enabled financial fraud and investment scam, impersonating as stockbrokers and company executives.
As part of its 'go-green' initiative, HDFC Bank has started sending PIN, unique code number, for debit card holders through SMS instead of the practice of sending it by post.
Rajasthan Sr Secondary (Commerce) Results on SMS
The controversial SMS game introduced in the Indian Premier League, which evoked strong criticism for promoting to gambling, was on Tuesday discontinued with the games' inventors taking note of the apprehensions expressed by Sports Minister M S Gill and many former cricketers. Although no pressure was put for the game to be withdrawn, the organisers decided to stop it with immediate effect.
Job portal, Naukri.com, has launched a first-of-its-kind service for job seekers, which helps in forwarding resumes to any prospective employer through an SMS.The service 'Naukri ExpressCV' allows jobseekers registered on the website to forward their resume to prospective employers, free of cost.
Touch screens, slide-out QWERTY keypads, dual SIM phones and even a transparent phone will soon make their way into your hands from the LG stable in 2009.
The telecom regulator on Friday released a list of 40 "defaulter" principal entities, including large banks like HDFC Bank, SBI and ICICI Bank, that are not fulfilling the regulatory norms on bulk commercial messages despite repeated reminders. Hardening its stance on the issue, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) warned that defaulting entities should comply with the stipulated requirements by March 31, 2021 "to avoid any disruption in the communication with customers" from April 1, 2021. "As sufficient opportunity has been given to principal entities/ telemarketers to comply with the regulatory requirements and that the consumers cannot be deprived of the benefits of the regulatory provisions any further, therefore it has been decided that from April 1, 2021, any message failing in the scrubbing process due to non-compliance of regulatory requirements will be rejected" by the system, TRAI said in a statement.
Here's how you can get your class ten results on SMS.
As the terror drama unfolded in Mumbai, social networkers and bloggers rapidly posted pictures of the ongoing events and sent sms-es over phone to whet the growing hunger for information and reports of live unedited action.
BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi said the information is property of the Board and it should get appropriate share of revenue from it.
Yashasvi Jaiswal's not wasting any time, diving headfirst into practice sessions and showcasing his already impressive batting skills.
Unreserved railway tickets, which are bought by 16 million passengers daily in India, will soon be available through cell phones, thanks to a major IT initiative of Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). The CRIS official also announced that the IT-based unreserved Ticketing System (UTS), which began six years ago as a pilot project to dispense unreserved tickets through a wider and universal access to information technology, would be extended to 6,275 stations.
Karnataka class 12 results on SMS and the web
The number -- 676747 -- will also provide the status of train list. It will be valid all over the country.
The government said in an order that mobile internet services would be banned in Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa districts.
The service, which enables users to form communities and blog using their mobile phones and has a user base of 12 million, has received the investment from venture capital funds Helion Ventures and Charles River Ventures. The funds will be used to fund business growth, product development and increased sales and marketing, said Rakesh Mathur, CEO and co-founder of SMS GupShup.
Mahamandleshwar Swami Dharamdev said the yatra conveyed a powerful message of Hindu-Muslim brotherhood across the country.
Political parties in Mizoram have been using social media and mobile phones to woo voters, especially the youths, for the coming election to the 40-member state assembly to be held on November 25.
Around 2,500 personnel from police and paramilitary have been deployed in the district this year a day before the yatra, police said.
Over the last few days there has been a constant scrutiny over Facebook having access to your SMS. Buried within the latest update for Facebook's Android app is a feature that is causing growing concern among some users.
According to the developers of the application, it can be deployed in both GSM and CDMA networks and it will deliver operators the ability to increase revenues through opt-in advertising.
The new application -- SMS 2.0 -- has been developed over a period of two years and has initially been launched in India and Singapore.
SMS advertisements, which used to irritate cellphone users, could soon turn out to be money- spinners with a Bangalore-based firm claiming to pay those who willingly receive the messages.
The content providers -- TV channels, FM Radio stations, e-commerce companies and credit card majors -- have blamed the service providers and mobile value-added services (VAS) operators for the problem.
Train running information system will be installed at rail premises to facilitate dissemination of information about trains on real time basis.
The district administration in Shillong also clamped curfew in areas under two police stations in view of the 'serious' deterioration of law and order.
What is digital house arrest? It is a tactic cybercriminals use to confine victims to their homes and scam them, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Goa government on Friday told the legislative assembly that the Research and Analysis wing has been informed about the terror message, allegedly originating from Spain, which threatened to blow up Panaji and the coastal belt.
The British High Commission has announced this service for Indians travelling to the United Kingdom.
Short messaging services in Tibet has received a significant boost with China launching Tibetan language interface for the first time for mobile phone subscribers in the remote Himalayan region.
