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Tag: sms

  • Mobile roaming

    Some of my late mother’s friends, on hearing of her passing, took to texting her on her mobile with tributes and messages of how shocked they were and how much they would miss her. I kept her mobile, an Phone4, for a few days before I passed it to my sister, who’ll be keeping it…

  • A good reason to localize: two killed over sms error

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Maybe rednano should try scare tactics. Localisation could have saved the lives of two people in Turkey (via Gizmodo): The surreal mistake happened because the ex-husband’s cellphone didn’t have an specific character from the Turkish alphabet: the letter “ı” or closed i. While “i” is available in all phones in Turkey—where…