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Did you know your text messages are plastered all over the internet?
Slashdot has a story on O2, Sprint and Boost Mobile allowing search engine spiders to crawl your messages. Any MMS messages that send the photo to the phone website are findable:
Google inurl:pictures.sprintpcs.com/share.do?invite= to see Sprint’s list.
So if it is private – don’t mms it!
Check to be sure your phone provider is blocking search engine spiders from making your mms searchable.
iPhone 3G arriving bright and early Friday?
ATT has said it would be opening bright and early at 8am to sell 3G iPhones. Now TUAW is reporting that Apple stores will also open at 8am Friday to begin selling the phones.
W00t! That means waiting inside an air conditioned mall instead of 100′ heat in Houston.
When I checked last weekend the Apple store had planned to close at 5pm and reopen at 6pm to sell phones. 8am seems like a much better option.
Apple’s website now lists 8 am as the selling time.
