StealthText: Self Destructing Text Message Service
Mike Slocombe
Digital-Lifestyles.Info, UK
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A UK company is introducing a "StealthText" service which sends self-destructing mobile phone text messages. Messages sent via StealthText will vanish after 40 seconds onscreen with the company, Staellium UK, hoping that the service will prove popular with business executives dealing in sensitive information.
We can think of a host of rather more dodgy applications for the service too - how about the thousands of people having affairs via SMS? The company is claiming that their 'Mission Impossible' style auto-destructing texts have already picked up interest from financial services companies, the Ministry of Defence, celebrity agents.
The Stealth Text service requires both sender and receiver to sign-up by texting STEALTH to 80880. This provides a link to download the StealthText applet via a WAP connection. Ten self-destructing messages will cost £5.
Users signed up to the service will receive a text notification showing the senders name and providing a link to the message.
Dec 12, 2005
Mike Slocombe
Digital-Lifestyles.Info, UK
____________________
A UK company is introducing a "StealthText" service which sends self-destructing mobile phone text messages. Messages sent via StealthText will vanish after 40 seconds onscreen with the company, Staellium UK, hoping that the service will prove popular with business executives dealing in sensitive information.
We can think of a host of rather more dodgy applications for the service too - how about the thousands of people having affairs via SMS? The company is claiming that their 'Mission Impossible' style auto-destructing texts have already picked up interest from financial services companies, the Ministry of Defence, celebrity agents.
The Stealth Text service requires both sender and receiver to sign-up by texting STEALTH to 80880. This provides a link to download the StealthText applet via a WAP connection. Ten self-destructing messages will cost £5.
Users signed up to the service will receive a text notification showing the senders name and providing a link to the message.
Dec 12, 2005
