June 2011
Android Apps: Chikka Text Messenger
(via)Price: free, Version: 1.4.2 (Market)
Description:
Chikka – Still the best way to send free SMS to the Philippines, now on Android.
March 2011
Android Apps: Walk and Text
(via)Works on any devices 1.5 and above, yes even on the G1! The features at a glance: – Full 80 character QWERTY keyboard! – The Camera preview is being displayed while you walk and text. Click send and share the text with any client installed on your device (Email, Text Message, Bluetooth, Facebook, Twitter Twidroid, Twigee, Gmail etc.) – You can change the background and color of the text you type or stop the camera while writing.
June 2010
Philippine wrestles with ‘Jejemon’ cyber-dialect
(via)The Philippines is wrestling with what authorities say is a language monster invading youth-speak in Internet social networks and mobile phone text messaging. The phenomenon has triggered enormous social debate, with the government declaring an “all out war” against the cyber-dialect, called ‘jejemon’, but the Catholic church defending it as a form of free expression.
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