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It appears that over the past few weeks, Facebook has widely activated a feature that allows you to text Facebook to update your status, message your friends, or send a poke on the go. You can opt to receive texts with status updates, messages, pokes, and wall posts from selective friends right when they happen. This is all part of a larger Mobile strategy that Facebook has begun to promote actively on its Mobile page. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/04/showing-its-twitter-envy-facebook-gets-serious-about-sms/ 5/4)

Greg Joswiak, the vice president of product marketing for the iPhone and iPod, later this week will testify before the U.S. Copyright Office against the practice of jailbreaking. According to a legal brief filed by Apple, legalizing the practice, as some would like, will lead to “copyright infringement, potential damage to the device and other potential harmful physical effects, adverse effects on the functioning of the device, and breach of contract.” Macworld/IDG News Service (5/1)