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Texas State Technical College, Marshall campus is about to become a new case study for intelligent use of 2.0 services. They’ve set up a Twitter account and it’s populated largely with updates about the school’s campus, such as openings, closings, etc.

I’m rather impressed with Poll Everywhere. Text polls, anywhere. Love it. Fancy trying it out? If you use the text option, here’s what it looks like: You can vote online — with that little plugin there — or via text.

This is rather interesting — reader ‘John’ posted the link to this in a comment earlier. It’s posted as an announcement on the Vodafone eForum: Hello everyone, Following previous discussions about Premium Rate Short Message Services, I’m delighted to announce that the bar we promised is now available.

Virgin Mobile-buzzd in agreement (USA) September 4th, 2008 11:04 am Virgin Mobile is now in an agreement with buzzd. Buzzd is a location-based cityguide and mobile social network to its WAP deck. Virgin Mobile and buzzd will enable users to: Broadcast and share local entertainment information

Schoolchildren should be allowed to use mobile phones in the classroom to boost education standards, according to researchers, reports The Telelgraph. Despite fears that mobiles and MP3 players are a huge distraction, it is claimed schools can get the most out of pupils by giving them full-time access to the latest gadgets.

Following the hoopla about the "first ever VP announcement by SMS" launched by the Democratic party, here's an interesting and thoughtful article by Justin Oberman for techPresident reminding us how mobile phones have been used politically before with a far greater viral reach and, in the end, impact.

Following the hoopla about the "first ever VP announcement by SMS" launched by the Democratic party, here's an interesting and thoughtful article by Justin Oberman for techPresident reminding us how mobile phones have been used politically before with a far greater viral reach and, in the end, impact.

Tutorial Thursday So many people have unlimited SMS text messaging plans on their phones these days that a lot of services, such as Twitter, are using them as a way to notify users of updates. By doing this users get a simulated push notification experience without needing to have a push-compatible device.

AwareSpot - get useful text message alerts direct to your mobile phone posted by Nigel in mobile tech, super useful AwareSpot is a new service that sends ‘relevant’ SMS alerts to your phone when something important occurs in your area. Like a traffic jam, or a community event.

AwareSpot - get useful text message alerts direct to your mobile phone posted by Nigel in mobile tech, super useful AwareSpot is a new service that sends ‘relevant’ SMS alerts to your phone when something important occurs in your area. Like a traffic jam, or a community event.