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What can I get?
You can choose to receive information on one of the following categories. astro currencies love match lotto news trivia weather sport jokes country fun tv movies religion names gossip manual compatibility
How can I get it?
A premium SMS rate of R2.00 (incl. VAT) is charged for each SMS sent. NB NOTE: INFOtext is NOT case sensitive, please leave a space between Keywords and Parameters and DON’T use any punctuation, for example: astro leo love OR ASTRO LEO LOVE
Get SMS updates on what’s new on iNFOtext
To receive free sms updates on what’s new on infotext and other iTouch products send the keyword info. To stop receiving these at anytime, send infostop.
Astro
For your daily horoscope reading, send astro „your star sign‟ love or astro „your star sign‟ fortune and find out what the future holds for you.
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E.g. astro leo fortune (If love or fortune is not requested, the reply will default to love.) Your reply will look as follows: LEO FOR: Open yourself to new things and keep an eye on the opportunities that come your way.
Compatibility
To find out your astro love compatibility between you and your partner, send the keyword compat followed by ‘starsign1’ then ‘starsign2’ The reply will be a calculation of what the compatibility will be. E.g. campat leo pisces Your reply will look as follows: Compat: Leo, Pisces: 20% Worlds apart. You‟d make good friends but may never learn to be patient with each other‟s differences.
Country
To find out more about a country, send country followed by the „country's name‟. To find a country’s time zone, send country followed by zone followed the „country's name‟. E.g. country india country zone india
Financial
Financial Information is divided into 6 categories: Currencies, gilts, metals, shares and unit trusts. To get the latest prices sent to your phone, send one of the following keywords followed by the ‘name’ or ‘code’. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CODES CAN BE FOUND ON THE FINANCIAL PAGE OF BUSINESS REPORT. Keyword shares or sha unittrust or ut currency or cur Gilts or gil Metal or met Parameter 1 ‘share name’ or ‘code’ ‘unit trust name’ or ‘code’ australia, belgium, britain, canada, denmark, euro, france, germany, hong kong, italy, japan, new zealand, singapore, spain, switzerland, usa, zimbabwe, seychelles, tanzania, mauritius, malawi, botswana e168, e170, e172, r147, r150, r153, tk01 gold, palladium, platinum, silver, tael
E.g. share telkom or sha 6997 (easy option) Your reply will look as follows:
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TELKOM SA LTD, Code 6997, Buy 41.00, Sell 41.10, Last 41.00, Vol 1672813, Hi 41.50, Lo 40.55, Mov 0.50, Last traded 08-07-2003 14:15
Fun
To receive funky fun SMS’s, send one of the following: These are random, and you will receive a different reply for each request. Keyword insult or ins (easy option) strange or str today or tod joke thought or tho wacky or wac scrambler or scr pickup or pick sex naughty or nau gossip or gos celebrity or celeb proverb or prov inspirational or insp cool moviequote handy or hand sextip dating or dat love or luv pet beauty or bea parent of par bumper or bum murphy or mur spiritual or spi fortune or for tarot or tar tealeaves or tea dice ugly Description Insults Strange but true facts Today in history Jokes Though for the day Weird and wacky words and what they mean Word Scramblers Pick up lines Strange sex facts Naughty jokes Hollywood gossip Celebrity birthdays Inspirational Proverbs Inspirational quotes Cool quotes One liners from your favourite films Helpful tips for everyday life Sex tips to use on your lover Tips to help you get a date! Tips on love Tips on pets Beauty tips for women Helpful tips on rearing children Cheeky bumper sticker sayings Funny human laws Spiritual quotes Fortune cookies Tarot readings Tea leaf readings Two numbers between 1 and 6 Ugly quotes
For celebrity birthdays, send the date of your choice after the keyword to see which celeb shares your birthday… if no date is selected, your reply will give you today’s date E.g. joke Your reply will look as follows: Daily Joke: Q: What do you have if you have 100 rabbits in a row and 99 step back? A: A receding hare line.
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Lotto
Send the word lotto and find out if you’ve won!! Send lotto plus to get the winning no’s for lotto plus. Send lotto quick and we’ll send you 6 random no’s to win with… Or, send lotto followed by ‘your star sign’ for your astral lucky numbers… E.g. lotto leo
Love Match
To find out you and your partner are well matched, send the keyword match followed by ‘name1’ then ‘name2’ The reply will be a calculation of what the match will be. E.g. match john jill Your reply will look as follows: 29%: This relationship has as much chance as Britney and Prince Wills. Forget it!
Manual
To have your own iNFOTEXT Easy Guide Manual emailed to your email address, send man followed by ‘your email address’. Or, you can send it to your friends email address… E.g. man youremail@youraddress.com
Movies
When requesting movies, you need to know which movie it is you want to go and watch. You can request either the venue or the times for a specific movie: Venues: Send the keyword movie followed by the ‘city’ followed by the ‘movie name’ E.g. movies ct spiderman
Your reply will look as follows: Bayside, N1 City, Grandwest, Blue Route, Canal Walk, Kenilworth, Long Beach, Tygervalley, V+A Waterfront, Cavendish Cineplex. Times: Send the keyword movie followed by the ‘venue’ followed by the ‘movie name’ E.g. movie bayside spiderman
Your reply will look as follows: Bayside, Spiderman, 10V, 120 minutes, Wed, 12:00, 14:30, 17:05, 19:45
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Schedules for the weekend and forthcoming week are only made available after 00h00 on a Friday morning.
Name definitions
To find out what you name means, send name followed by your ‘name’ To find a name by a meaning, i.e. you want a name that means ‘good’, send name followed by girl or boy, followed by the ‘name meaning’ Keyword Name Parameter 1 ‘your name’ girl boy Parameter 2 ‘name meaning’ ‘name meaning’
E.g. name philip name girl good Your reply will look as follows: NAME: Philip: Gender: Male, Root: PHILLIP, Origin: Greek, Meaning: Lover of Horses NAME: AGATHA: Gender: Female, Origin: Greek, Meaning: Good
News
To get the latest headlines sent to your phone, send news followed by the ‘type of news’ Keyword news Parameter 1 financial or fin (easy option) it corporate or cor international or int local or loc sport or spo entertainment or ent
E.g. news sport Your reply will look as follows: News: SOCCER: Germany beat Korea 1-0 to qualify for final. RUGBY: Lane says Tri-Nations places are still open. TENNIS: Venus thrashes O'Donoghue 6-1 6-1.
Nuus
Om nuus hoogte punte te kry, stuur nuus gevolg deur ‘tipe’ Sleutelwoord nuus Tipe sake beeld burger
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sport volksblad B.v. nuus sport Jou SMS sal soos volg lyk: Nuus: Geld die rede. Kerkorrel „het nasiebou gehelp‟. Son sal buitelanders nie sien.
Religion
BIBLE QUOTES Send the keyword bible to receive your daily bread. E.g. bible Your reply will look as follows: Bible: Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Matt 10:33 SHABBAT Shabbat is every Friday. Find out the Shabbat and Muslim prayer times for the 4 major regions in South Africa. (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth.) E.g. shabbat jhb Your reply will look as follows: Shabbat: JHB: Candle Lighting: Fri 28 June 17:09. Shabbat ends: Sat 29 June 18:01. Torah: Pinchas. MUSLIM PRAYER TIMES Muslim Salaah is daily. If a day is not requested for Muslim prayer times, it will default to the current day. E.g. muslim jhb Your reply will look as follows: Prayers: JHB: 26 June: Fajr: 06:25. Thoer: 13:15. Asr: 16:00. Magrib: 17:29. Esha: 19:15. Hanafi Asr time 2 hours before Magrib.
Sport
Send the relevant sport as a keyword e.g. rugby, cricket, soccer, motorsport, tennis or golf. Your 1st parameter will vary according to the category chosen.
Rugby
SPRINGBOK GAMES
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To receive live score updates for all Springbok games, send rugby sa Your reply will look as follows: RUGBY: South Africa 19 (2 tries, 3 pen) Wales 8 (1 try, 1pen). TOURNAMENTS Your keyword is rugby, your 1st parameter is the ‘tournament’ and your 2nd parameter is the ‘team’. You will receive live score updates when the respective tournaments are in progress. If there are no games being played you will receive the previous score + details of the forthcoming fixture. Keyword rugby or rug (easy option) Parameter 1 sixnations or six (easy option) Parameter 2 england or eng (easy option) france or fra scotland or scot ireland or ire italy or ita wales or wal Sa or boks australia or aus newzealand or new stormers or sto sharks or sha cats or cat bulls or bul reds or red brumbies or bru hurricanes or Hurr blues or blu highlanders or high crusaders or cru chiefs or chi waratahs or war westernprovince or WP lions or lion cheetahs or che bluebulls or blue pumas or pum eagles or eag griquas or griq sharks or sha
trinations or tri
super12 or sup
curriecup or cur
E.g. rugby sup cats LOGS & RESULT ROUND UPS These are offered for the Super 12, Six Nations, Vodacom Cup & Currie Cup tournaments.
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Keyword rugby or rug (easy option)
Parameter 1 (Tour) Parameter 2 (Log / result) super12 or sup (easy logs or log (easy option) option) sixnations or six result or res vodacomcup or voda curriecup or currie
E.g. rug sup log
Cricket
Send the keyword cricket and keep up to date with all the cricket action. You will receive up to the over results for all games involving the Protea’s.
Soccer
LOCAL To receive live scores for local soccer, send one of the following keywords: Keyword soccer or soc (easy option) Parameter 1 sa or bafana kaizer or chiefs orlando or pirates ajax leopards or leo stars dynamos or dyn arrows hellenic or hel cosmos or cos swallows or swa santos or san sundowns supersport or sup wits Zulu rangers E.g. soccer bafana or soccer wits PSL log To receive the PSL log your keyword will be soccer and your 1st parameter will be psllog E.g. soccer psllog PSL Result Roundup To receive the PSL results roundup, your keyword will be soccer and your 1st parameter will be pslres E.g. soccer pslres
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INTERNATIONAL To receive live scores and news for the English Premiership, send one of the following keywords: If there is no match on, you will receive news for the team of your choice. Keyword soccer or soc (easy option) Parameter 1 arsenal or arse (easy option) chelsea or chel leeds or lee liverpool or liver manchester or man astonvilla or ast everton or eve newcastle or new tottenhamhotspurs or tot blackburnrovers or black middlesbrough or middles charltonathletic or charlton Fulham or ful Leicester or city wolves or wanderers southampton or southam boltonwanderers or bolton birmingham or bir Portsmouth or por manchestercity or manc E.g. soccer liverpool BPL Log To receive the BPL log your keyword will be soccer and your 1st parameter will be premierlog or prelog. E.g. soccer prelog BPL Log Result Roundup To receive the BPL results roundup, your keyword will be soccer and your 1st parameter will be preres. E.g. soccer preres
Motor Sport
All grand prix’s will be covered during the season, which generally runs March - October. Keyword formulaone or f1 (easy option) Parameter 1 results or res (easy option) driver or dri constructor or con news
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E.g. f1 results F1 RESULT requests will include the following content: 1. Saturday Preceding a GP - Grid Positions will be available (+/- top 6 drivers + positions). These will be replaced by major withdraws or crashes that occur up to the halfway mark. 2. Half Way - Updates for top 6 drivers + time differences in seconds in comparison to the front driver. 3. End Race - Top six drivers + date + venue of next GP. F1 DRIVER requests will include the following content: Driver logs will be available within 30 minutes of the race and will remain available until the following GP. F1 CONSTRUCTOR requests will include the following content: Constructor logs will be available within 30 minutes of the race and will remain available until the following GP. F1 NEWS requests will be the latest F1news: Updated daily.
Golf
The four Majors (British Open, US Masters, US Open, US PGA), as well as the Nedbank Challenge, Ryder & Dunhill Cup are covered. The scores are updated during the course of the tournaments and at the end. Keyword golf Parameter 1 britishopen (no space) or british (easy option) usmasters or masters usopen or usop uspga or pga nedbankchallenge or ned rydercup or ryd dunhillchallenge or dun president or pres
E.g. golf usmasters (no space) Your reply will look as follows: Golf: 2002 US Masters, Augusta. Final Score: Woods P:-12, Goosen P:-9, Mickelson P:-8, Olazabal P:-7
Tennis
Results will be covered for the 4 Grand Slams, i.e. Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open.
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To get results, you will need to send either tennis women or tennis men The scores are updated at the end of play for a selection of matches and for the Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Finals. If you want to follow individual players, enter tennis and the ‘player name’ listed below: Keyword tennis or ten (easy option) Parameter 1 men women or wom hingis, venus, serena, anna, coetzer sampras, agassi, kuerten, hewitt, ferreira
E.g. tennis women Your reply will look as follows: Wimbledon: WOMEN: Day 1: V Williams bt O'Donoghue 6-1, 6-1. Seles bt Bes 6-0, 6-0. Henin bt Rippner 6-2, 6-7, 6-1. Coetzer bt Gubacsi 6-3, 6-2.
Trivia
Impress your friends with your vast movie or music knowledge. Send trivia music or trivia movies E.g. trivia movies Your reply will look like this: Movies: Bridget Jones's Diary - 2001: Actress Renee Zellweger gained a reported 25 lbs to play the part of Bridget Jones.
TV Schedules
Get TV schedules via SMS! You can get day or night schedules for SABC1, SABC2, SABC3, ETV and MNET. Send the keyword tv followed by ‘the channel’, followed by day (before 5pm) or night (after 5pm) E.g. tv etv day Your reply will look like this: eTV Thu (day): 1030 Madam and eve 1230 WorldNow 13 OprahWinfrey 14 RickiLake 15 Teletubbies 1530 Craze! 16 Dexter‟sLaboratory 1630 Craze!
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Weather
To receive the weather forecast, send weather plus the ‘city’ plus the ‘forecast’ The forecast available are today, tomorrow or 3day (If no day is selected, you will receive today’s weather up until 12pm and tomorrow’s weather after 12pm.) E.g. weather jhb tomorrow Your reply will look as follows: Weather: JHB JUN 27, TMP Lo 01 Hi 15, Sunny and cool, RAIN 0%, CLOUD 0%, WND (KPH) NW 8-16, 8-23 later, WARN None.
Help?
If you have any problems with the above, please send the word help followed by the category you require and we will SMS you on how it works. E.g. help weather Alternatively you can call the Vodacom call centre free on 111 from your cell phone for any assistance you require.
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