Going Mobile - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 313

Finding your phone number and phone e-mail address
Sure, you know what your phone number is, but your cell phone service
may have neglected to give you an address to which your phone can be sent
mail. he Internet to the rescue! To see the e-mail formats for various cell
phone companies, visit the following URL:
networking.ringofsaturn.com/Telecommunications/mobile-phone-emails.php
his site has the proper format for mail addresses for dozens of cell phone
companies. hey're all built around your phone number. For example, a
Cingular address looks like this:
[e-mail]
You may have to do a little experimenting with this one to ind out which
address works for you—many carriers have multiple addresses listed. If
none of them work for you, or your cell phone company is not listed here,
try Telelip at telelip.com. Telelip lets you send messages using a single
number format. he irst 100 messages per month are free.
Now you have two ways in which you can receive information on your
phone—by phone alerts and by phone messages. Let's take a look at the ser-
vices that go to your phone, and then the ways you can make e-mail alerts
go to your phone.
Services that go to your phone
Many sites ofer cell phone services that work like this: you send the ser-
vice a brief message, and it sends you a brief snippet of information. Even
Google has a phone messaging service like this. It can be useful, but not for
trapping information.
In the case of information trapping, Yahoo has an excellent service. And
other sites do as well—it's just a matter of knowing where to look.
Yahoo Alerts
As with practically everything else in the Yahoo Universe, you need a Yahoo
account to use Yahoo Alerts (alerts.yahoo.com).
Once you have the account and you've logged in, notice that you have a
huge number of alerts from which to choose. You can get alerts on auctions,
breaking news, stocks, sports—even missing children. Pick a category and