Archive for December, 2007

T-Mobile and Twitter
Friday, December 14th, 2007

Altnernageek, TechCrunch and others are reporting, and Biz is confirming, that T-Mobile is restricting/denying access to Twitter.

According to Alternageek, T-Mobile’s customer service department wrote:

T-Mobile would like to bring to your attention that the Terms and Conditions of service, to which you agreed at activation, indicate “… some Services are not available on third-party networks or [...]

A bug in the system, or why ISPs should use SPF
Monday, December 10th, 2007

I awoke this morning to see numerous emails in my personal inbox reading:

To: dewitt@gmail.com From: nnnnnnnnnn@vtext.com Subject: Stop texting me!

Now obviously I’m not spam texting anyone. Not via the phone, not via email. But Verizon runs an email-to-SMS gateway at text.vzw.com that allows anyone to send an email to [...]