Cool Cell Phone Uses

A few good uses of cellphone technology:

1. Reaching out to younger people to increase voter participating...

From News.com:

Music for America, a nonprofit advocacy for young-voter registration, will kick off a text-messaging campaign this June at concerts around the country...

...participating musicians will call on concertgoers with cell phones to get registered by punching in a word designated by the musicians and then sending it off using a short numerical code. Fans will receive a reply asking them to send their name and address to receive voter registration forms. They'll get an SMS (Short Message Service) reminder to vote on Election Day.

2. The London Borough of Lambeth is piloting a new email and SMS reminder service that will send a series of regular emails and text messages reminding users of deadlines for electoral registration, postal vote registration and election day voting. Read more from Textually.org.

3. Fox creates a new interactive game for cell phones inspired by 24, its hit television show:

From the BBC:

Taking the popular TV show, 24, and squeezing it into a mobile phone game sounds like a daunting task.

But as with so many big names from the world of TV and film, this is exactly what has happened to the real-time action series.

24 is making the leap from being a TV show to a game franchise of its own. Game versions for the main consoles are on their way.

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