As consumer spending rises, and as people feel better about the stability being shown in the jobs market, this holiday shopping season is shaping up to be fairly solid. And online retailers are hoping to get in on the action come the Monday after Thanksgiving. Cyber Monday is the biggest online shopping day of the year, and now you can stay fully alerted to hourly and daily deals with a little help from your cell phone. SoundBite sent me a press release about this service (which I do not intend to use):
Americans send 50,000 text messages per second. Ninety-five percent …read more

I’m not sure how many people were probably aware but you could use Outlook to send and receive SMS notifications right to your computer. The service was provided by a feature called SMS Link. It worked fairly well, although I had some general user functionality issues I think could have been improved.

Microsoft has announced via email that they will be discontinuing this service on August 26, 2009.
Microsoft’s SMS Link service will be discontinued effective August 26th, 2009.  Once this service is discontinued, current users will no longer be able to send SMS messages through Office Outlook 2007 using SMS …read more

I came across a post from a friend of mine where he was talking about the speed at which some teens are able to construct text messages typing with just their thumbs. He was even more impressed because she was texting this fast on an iPhone. I’ve played around a bit with my friend’s iPhone and I can tell you, I can’t type nearly as quickly on the iPhone as I can on my good ‘ol PPC-6700 from Sprint.
In the post he shares a link to a clip from The Tonight Show where a morse coder and a texter went …read more