The SMS widget is becoming very popular and Im getting many messages and also queries about the same. Ill make some clarifications about the same now. The Widget is completly free to use and we do intend to keep it free forver. This is our gift to the blogging community, which has helped us a lot, sharing their knowledge and experience. The widget is completely safe to use and your mobile number will never be revealed to the sender. Bloggers,...

Fellow bloggers and readers, Check out the widget on the right side of this post. You can SMS me directly from that widget. Type in your comments there and Ill get them on my mobile instantly. We are now giving away free widgets to bloggers and publishers. If you need a similr widget on your blog or website send a mail to prema@mobme.in with your mobile number and bog address. She will send you a customised widget for you. This...

According to Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM Standard), the size of each SMS is limited to 160-characters in order to avoid overloading in the standard forward-and-response operation of the SMS server. Larger content of SMS can be sent but they will be segmented over multiple messages, which lead to extra charges among the mobile phone users. Therefore Euzer Technologies Sdn Bhd has invented a novel and powerful SMS...

In an earlier post we saw how GSM networks are jammed when the SMS traffic increases. Now some smart kids can use this loop hole to attack GSM networks and cause service outage in targeted areas. This is very much similar to DOS (Denial of service) attacks in computer networks. Even though such a possibility exists, no one can bring down the entire service down. But its very much possible to bring down certain areas of a network,...

Most providers assign certain number series to certain places.  All the SIMs sold at a particular location at a particular period of time can be in the same series. With a little bit of research we can identify potential numbers in a location. Another method is to gain access to corporate databases, where customer numbers will be stored. Modern banks provide SMS alerts, and they are a good place to start looking. If you have...

SMS traffic is doubling in every two years. Operators used to see this as a new revenue source. Many companies started offering services around SMS. But this explosive growth of  SMS has started to created problems, mainly a degradation of the voice services. Every operators are facing service problems during holidays and festival seasons just because of the large volume of SMS messages that are being sent. During New year almost...

Voice SMS allows a subscriber to send the voice message to the other subscriber without talking to the recipient. The sender does it by dialing the recipient number in a pre-defined fashion/pre-defined by the operator. The network then routes the call to the IVR front end of the Voice SMS system. The sender then leaves a message in the Voice SMS system and hangs up the phone. The recipient is then sent an alert from the Voice...