It's no trick. (30 October 2008)

It’s hard to imagine not text messaging… and why wouldn’t you? It’s fast and to the point. No obligatory nice-ities. No fluff. Sure “Crackberry’s” have paved the road to instantaneous gratification. But unlike email, with text messaging no full words required, let alone full sentences. Soooo, in addition to the elephants, just another reason why it’s so cool (although admittedly the elephants are indeed a tough act to follow)…

South Africa using cell texts to combat HIV

Project Masiluleke of South Africa is taking advantage of cellular technology to disseminate information about HIV. Trial runs of the free text-message service showed that calls to care centers rose 200%. (BBC, 24 October 2008)

Text messaging, saving the world one text at a time.