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North American cellphone users were expected to send 2.2 billion mobile messages, including short message service messages and multimedia messaging service messages, on Valentine’s Day, according to VeriSign Inc. The company said Valentine’s Day typically is the busiest day of the year for mobile messages, and the number of messages powered on its infrastructure increases about 40% on Feb. 14 compared with other days.
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MediaBRO 24/7
Fans of the reality show Big Brother will have the chance to watch live feeds of contestants, who are locked in a house together for several weeks vying for a half-million-dollar prize, on their cellphones. In the past, fans have been able to purchase 24-hour live feeds for viewing on their computer. The service is offered by MediaFLO USA and CBS Mobile. The companies will offer a dedicated Big Brother FLO TV channel with 24-hour live-feed activity from inside the Big Brother House. The first-ever winter edition of Big Brother, which is a fill-in for shows canceled due to the writer’s strike, began Feb. 12.
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Give me your best shot
Sonim Technologies said it asked attendees at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, to torture its new “indestructible” XP1 mobile phone, which is certified to withstand shock, water, wind, dust, dirt and extreme temperatures. The company, which is promoting the phone with its “World’s Toughest Phone Tour,” also is sending the phone to bloggers and journalists with an illustrated how-to-torture guide to test the phone’s durability. “If you’ve been watching the videos on YouTube, you’ll have seen the Sonim shot with a Glock 9mm by Mobil magazine and a Remington rifle by Metro, the largest paper in Sweden,” Bob Plaschke, CEO of Sonim said. “You’ll have seen the Sonim kicked around, pushed around, put in the oven, put in the freezer and still surviving. I’d like to invite you all to have a go and see if you can finally break it.”