Trade Secretary, Peter Favila has proposed adding a tax on text messages to help compensate income losses from proposals to end sales tax on oil products.
Favila told GMANews in an interview that imposing a tax on SMS could make Filipinos shift their focus on endeavors that are more productive. “Texting is also a source of negative reason…(and) it makes people more cynical,” he said in an ambush interview shortly after the weekly press conference of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.
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After stopping their unlimited texting service called UNLITXT, TXTPower filed a letter-complaint to NTC (National Telecommunications Commission) via email last December 18 to bring back UNLITXT. Surpisingly yesterday, Globe brought back UNLITXT. But this time, they offered only UNLITXT20. No more UNLITXT40 and UNLITXT80. That is according to 2977 text advisory:
Globe Advisory: Ang Globe Unlitxt All Day 20 ay available na! Enjoy 1 day unlimited texting for only P20. Just text UNLITXT20 to 2870 to register. Til 1/20/08. No free advisory? Reply STOP
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A friend told me just this morning that Globe’s UNLITXT services has ended. So I went to TxtPower’s website and found out that it is true. According to the website:
For the second time this year, Globe Telecom stopped its unlimited texting service without any public announcement.
At a time when we expect a deluge of Christmas greetings through text, subscribers are now forced to avail of a so-called Sulitxt15 service that gives 100 text messages for P15.
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If Yahoo SMS Messenger was initially available to Globe and Smart subscribers, SUN Cellular also 
developed a similar service called iMessenger, where IM users can login and chat via SMS. Good thing about their service is their availability, not only to Yahoo users but to MSN, AOL and ICQ users as well! Its been here since January 2006.
To start using the service, just type IM and send to 2746.
To login:
LOGIN YAHOO yahooid password
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I know this may come late, because this particular Yahoo service started somewhere between late 2003 and early 2004, but its only now that I’m starting to appreciate it. If you are always on the go and don’t want to miss a single message on your Yahoo Messenger (YM), then you must use Yahoo SMS Messenger. All you need is an SMS-capable phone and you’re good to go!
To login, type
in yahooid password
and send to 62580 (for SMART subscribers, Php 2/text), 2258 (for GLOBE subscribers, Php 2.50/text). (more…)
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A few maid-related jokes were already being passed around on cellphones long before Sossy Inday’s fame. Those text jokes were not consistent, meaning they portray different kinds of maids or nannies. One of them is a stupid-type,
Amo: Inday pakilatag naman
ng comforter sa kama.
Magsisyesta ako. (after 15
mins si inday
pinagpapawisan) Inday: Koya
nakalatag na po yung
komporter sa kama. Isinama
ko na rin ang MAWS at
PRENTER. (more…)
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Before Inday, there’s already this fictional character Ederlyn, who appeared on several text jokes and invaded the texting community. Some people find her text jokes hard to understand, especially the first one that went like this:
Ui, invited tau s bday party
ni ederlyn 2m ng 6pm.
CnO b un? Kilala m b?
FinOrward lng skn e.
Hahahahahaha. Kulet. :)
At first, you won’t really think its a joke, but rather a wrong-sent text message. But after you receive the second one, (more…)
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Finally, TxtBuff SMS plugin is now available for download. It allows you to display the latest SMS quotes and text messages from TxtBuff on your website. You can choose to display only from a specific author, a category, or just the latest text messages in general. You can style them with CSS too!
Download the official TxtBuff SMS v1.0 from Wordpress plugins.
Instructions:
- Extract all files from the ZIP file and then
upload the whole folder to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’
- Activate TxtBuff SMS plugin by going to the admin area of your WordPress blog and click on the “Plugins” menu. Click on “Activate” for the “TxtBuff SMS” plugin.
- Visit the plugin’s options page (located at Options > TxtBuff) to set your preferences.
- Select SMS Quote Source. Choose from the following options: latest quotes in general, from a specific author, or from a specific category
- Number of quotes. Specify the number of text messages to appear in the plugin
- Maximum characters to display. Long text messages will be chopped off at the number you specify.
- Appearance. Customize font size, colors, etc by editing the CSS code.
- If your theme is widget compatible, visit Presentation > Widgets and drag “TxtBuff SMS” widget to where you’d like it to display. If your theme is not widget compatible, edit your theme’s sidebar (see the WP Codex for help) and add <?php txtbuff(); ?> where you would like the output to be displayed.
Note: This plugin requires at least Wordpress 2.0, tested up to 2.3
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Text messaging started way back when GSM mobile phones were first introduced in the market. It was quickly adopted by the tech-savvy teenagers, overtaking older technologies such as pagers and voice calls. As the number of internet users increased, people have learned to use email and instant messengers (IMs) and improved the way people communicate online. But with the rise of all these new technologies, text messaging still stayed.
Obviously, the main reason why it was preferred more than making voice calls is because of the cost. It only takes 1 peso to send a 160-character text message but a 1-minute voice call costs 8 pesos already. (more…)
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