I always enjoy reading of new developments with the use of SMS and Mobile. However three recent articles made me think a bit deeper than normal, these were not the normal SMS marketing stories that we read.
Korea Telecom Freetel is targeting pre-school kids in an effort to cash in on the mobile frenzy that has ensnared the nation. Eighty five percent of teenagers in South Korea own a phone, sending an average of 60 texts a day.Now the government has introduced legislation to try and stop children running up huge phone bills. Is there such a thing as “freedom of text”? A British snowboarder who fell down a rocky pit in Germany sent a text message asking for help. The snowboarder became separated from her husband and friends in the Alps, said police in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. The 35-year-old slipped into the pit but managed to text a friend to raise the alarm.
Sadly despite Two helicopters and mountain rescuers searching for the missing woman, she sadly died. Our thoughts go out to her family and friends. However the most provocative suggestion was to learn that Police are thinking of asking victims of rape to trap their alleged attacker into a confession using a controversial text messaging tactic. Senior detectives and prosecutors are considering the idea that rape suspects could incriminate themselves if their alleged victim tried to extract an admission of guilt via text message or in a phone call So-called “pretext” phone calls are used to try to get sexual attackers who are known to their victim to confess or incriminate themselves. The tactic is currently used in some US states and it is thought the measures could be adopted in the UK to improve the low conviction rate in rape cases. However, there is a question mark over whether pretext phone calls would be allowed under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. It is thought that British police forces would favour using text messages rather than phone calls, which are preferred in America. STUART