Mobile Stew

The self-destruct sms service launched by Staellium over the weekend is proving to be popular with thousands of people subscribing so far.  I find this very impressive considering that each message costs 50p and a user has to sign-up for a minimum of ten messages. 

To use the service a small application has to be downloaded to the phone.  Messages that are then sent via the service are destroyed 40 seconds after being read, although for legal reasons a log of the message is kept on a secure server.

Apparently the Ministry of Defence is interested in using the system.  Other potential uses could be for sending username and password reminders.  If the time before deletion could be extended then the system could also be used to send vouchers and ...