Tag: MMS

Chicago has broken new ground by becoming the first city in the U.S. to accept photo and video messages at its 911 center. Cell-wielding citizens can now send images and video captured with their mobile devices to the dispatch, which feeds that information to the crime prevention center. If the images are deemed relevant and sufficiently useful, they are then forwarded to first responders and ...

We all know that we can't trust everything we read on the Web, yet when many of us get sick, we still tend to seek medical advice online before consulting doctors or health care professionals. Although some online sources do offer valid, fact-based advice, others can often misinform and mislead curious web surfers, who may suffer severe health consequences as a result. Rhys Morgan, a 15-year-old ...

Even though many of us are still baffled as to why teens feel the need to text while driving, and even though innumerable news stories warn of the potentially fatal consequences, the younguns just keep on doing it. Old-school, gory, scared-straight films like 'Red Asphalt' and the like -- screened in darkened drivers-ed classrooms across the U.S. -- may not be addressing the problem. So what's ...

Does anyone still buy paper movie tickets from a physical box office in person anymore? Maybe it's because we happen to run in tech-savvy circles, but we can't remember the last time we didn't purchase tickets online and print them out later at the theater's dedicated kiosks. Giving an unexpected present to the planet, both Fandango and MovieTickets.com have streamlined the process even further ...

Share We spend a lot of time discussing the various capabilities of smartphones and the apps available for them, but the truth of the matter is that not everyone has a smartphone. In fact, the vast majority of people don't. Fortunately, though, "dumb phone" owners don't have to miss out on all the fun, thanks to the versatility of SMS. The blog Make Use Of highlights several ways that you ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Mogreet mobile video firm focuses on MMS, particularly the development of text messaging and the incorporation of phone-to-phone video sharing. The company has now drafted Hollywood icon David Lynch to help share its new technology, as it has introduced a texting program through which subscribers can receive exclusive David ...

Guess what, iPhoners? You've finally joined the 21st century -- multimedia messaging (MMS) is officially live and functioning. Plug your iPhone into iTunes, run a quick update (it took us literally three seconds), and reboot your phone to get access to all the multimedia messaging fun that most other phones have had access to since 2003. You've seen the screenshots of MMS in action before, but ...

When AT&T claimed it was going to take a while to get MMS on the iPhone (partially because it had to be manually enabled for each account), the company wasn't lying, it appears. Many iPhone 3G and 3GS users are reporting that they're now able to send and receive multimedia messages, despite being nearly two weeks ahead of the announced September 25th launch date. According to our friends over ...

In a sign that AT&T may finally be inching its metaphorical head out of its collective nether regions, the company will be bringing the "far-out" technology of MMS (plain, old 'picture messages' to the rest of us) to the iPhone on September 25th. The date falls a few days past the end of summer, the initially projected time of release, but AT&T's Brad Mays insists the move was made only ...

The wait is over! Well, the wait to know what we're waiting for is over. The iPhone 3.0 update is coming, and honestly, it's not coming soon enough. We'll have to wait until this June, when the iPhone will get a major software update that will bring boatloads of new features to everyone's favorite multi-touch cell phone. Of course, many of these features, such as support for ...

If you get a pair of blindingly bright clown shoes in the mail a few days after a late night of drunken revelry that you don't particularly recall... well, we think we know what happened. A new service from Nike in some European countries called "PhotoiD" allows cameraphone owners to snap a picture of pretty much anything their little hearts desire, send it to a short code via MMS, and get a ...