The concept of advertisements being “pushed” (sent) to the mobile phone is nothing new. By now, surely we have all have received atleast a few unsolicited advertisement/promotional SMS being sent to our mobile phones.

So far such type of “push” advertisements have been mostly SMS/MMS-based. I know of a “free SMS” provider in South Africa, called ‘Yo!SMS‘, which makes money by giving out “free SMS” but appending every message with an Ad (not sure if it is contextual, but it would be fair to guess it is).

So, it would be interesting to see how Google’s version of mobile phone-based advertising turns out.

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I visited their website, which says that the software, PhoneFile PRO, helps to recover SMS from the SIM card that have been marked as deleted. Whilst this might be able to recover a very recently deleted message, it possibly cannot recover older messages, simply because the SIM cards dont usually have that much capacity to store that many SMS (deleted or undeleted).

For more details, visit http://www.pipistrel.com/phonefile/1special.shtml.

This year’s event, held last Saturday (26th August) had 100 contestants from countries like Canada, Russia, Belgium; and Finland ofcorse.

Also just learnt about some other interesting contributions from Finland,

• International Wife Carrying Competition, where the “wife” to be carried can be one’s own, the neighbour’s wife or just anyone’s wife, as long as she is over 17; the prize being the wife’s weight in beer. The current world champion, Margo Uusorg, an Estonian, has won this event 5 times, with 4 different “wives”!
• Sauna World Championships

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I need a list of IMEIs, but in order to build such a list, I’d either have to [a] shell out 40 Euros/month, [b] own each and every phone there’s out there, or simply [c] ask your help.

My other alternative would have been to mass mail all my contacts, but since I am not at all in favour of that, hence this post. All your contributions are very much appreciated. Thank you well in advance!

The format of an IMEI is AABBBB-CC-DDDDDD-E. Where,

To kick start this list, here’s the IMEI for a Siemens C45, 350674-37-639805-1.
I understand that people might have concerns regarding the serial number part of the IMEI. You can just “XX” it .. like for example, mine would look like 350674-37-XXXXXX-1