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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Andy Davies <dajdavies at gmail.com> wrote:
> After my wife took three hours to get to work this morning due to the
>  M5 being shut, I've built a Yahoo pipe that takes the Highways Agency
>  feed and filters it to be just the M5 traffic alerts.
>
>  I can set up the RSS reader on her phone to cosume the feed from the
>  pipe but was wondering if anyone knew a simple and free way of
>  converting the feed to text messages sent to he phone? (It'll only be
>  for a low volume of messages (less than one a day))

Post to a dedicated Twitter account via the API, and then follow, and
turn on SMS notifications for, the account. It could even be a
non-public Twitter account (ie updates are protected).

Tim