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Marketext launched 1-2-Text QUICK SEND, an easy-to-use service to provide clients with access to a quick and effective way to send SMS to global networks. www.1-2-text.com

Marketext has been providing SMS services through its corporate web page, but the exponential growth in SMS usage and overcome has challenged the company with the set-up of a fast and easy service.

The new solution will also provide clients the way to use the full application. The service is a customer’s opportunity to maximise both time and economic resources.  This new service is based on the Company’s expertise in SMS software, connections and Business Intelligence and user’s feedback and comments

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Chennai (IANS) A web portal is trying to make life easier for job seekers by providing vacancy alerts through mobile phones.

At a time when job portals are a dime a dozen, one from the Chennai-based Bharat Matrimony group, Clickjobs.com is offering the 'Jobs on Mobile' service.

The service, which was started in March, helps those registered with the service get alerts through the short messaging service (SMS) on their mobiles about relevant vacancies in their specific industry and sector of expertise.

Nigeria: Vat - Confusion over New Telephone Tariffs Efem Nkanga - Lagos
Confusion has continued to trail the adjustments made by mobile and fixed telecommunication operators to their tariffs as a result of the 100 per cent increase in the value added tax (VAT).

The Federal Government, for the first time since the introduction of VAT in 1993, recently adjusted upwardly the consumption tax rate from 5 per cent to 10 per cent.

This has directly resulted in higher prices of consumer goods and services across the country, while the increment also took its toll on telephone subscribers.

South Africa: SMS alerts police of armed robbery
A man suspected of armed robbery has been arrested after police were tipped off by an SMS sent to the newly launched Crime Line.

Sally de Beer, the national police spokesperson, says she is delighted that the Crime Line has caught its first suspect. The SMS informed police of the whereabouts of the suspect, who was then arrested in Rustenburg in North West.

Five other people have since been arrested for cable theft in Kwa-Mashu, Durban, after an SMS was received. The anti-crime campaign, where people can send information on suspected crime while remaining anonymous, was launched last week.