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A civil rights advocate is using text messages to alert residents when the local Sheriff conducts one of his infamous immigration sweeps. BloggerNews reports. The Sheriff calls the sweeps crime suppression actions, but to most civil libertarians, law professors and critics, it’s simply an excuse by a reputed racist with a badge to abuse minorities. Ms. Guzman said her text messages are part of an effort to protect folks from becoming victims of racial profiling by sheriff’s deputies and posse m… Continue

More consumers used their mobile phone to make purchases and compare prices on Black Friday than ever before, according to data reviewed by Dow Jones, reports mocoNews.net. Some amazing numbers: -- PayPal said mobile payments surge nearly 650 percent, compared to last year. -- Mobile searches jumped to about 200,000 this year from 5,000 on Black Friday in 2008. More at Textually Continue

Blackbetty, a mobile book publisher, presented mobile books at this year's book fair at Frankfurt a couple of weeks ago. Blackbetty's books may be downloaded free of charge via Bluetooth. Samples of well known authors and complete books are available for download. Visitors may select their favorite book at a touch screen terminal. Afterwards they simply download their chosen content to their mobile phone by ubiquitously available Bluetooth. No additional hardware or software is needed to read t… Continue

Now, you don't have to make rounds of the municipal office or go on-line to find out about your property tax bills. Help will be available on your mobile through an SMS, repors the Times of India. "The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is launching a new system in which citizens would get details of their property tax bills through an SMS service where you mention your property number and sms it to 54646. More at… Continue

Investors at the Nairobi Stock Exchange will now lodge their complaints and queries on shares and transactions at their convenience. Capital Business reports. The new service will make the stock market more approachable for investors where they will be able to get information of how the bourse operates or even raise issues they may have. Complaints and queries are lodged by sending a message, via Safaricom and Zain, to 8485 at Sh10 per message. More at… Continue

he Health Ministry is introducing an SMS-based system to notify patients of their appointments to reduce queues at hospitals. Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the pilot project had been implemented at the Mamodiah Outpatient Clinic here. The queue management and appointment reminder would also send out an SMS when there are five patients before their turn. More at TheStar Continue