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"Someone was following me and I just don't remember what happened. I just woke up in a basement. I'm scared."

Other messages have stated she was forced to do, "disgusting stuff" and that she is going to be moved to New York. Other details of the case are not public. So far only SMS messages have made it through, no calls have taken place. The article has not mentioned why the cell carrier hasn't pinpointed her location.

Google updated its SMS search tool to include live sports scores. Competing SMS search service 4INFO has supported this feature for quite some time. To get a sports score via Google SMS, compose a new text message and put a team name or college in the body. Send it to 46645 (GOOGL).

We tested it out by sending the text, 'Duke' in hope of getting the latest scores from Duke's men's basketball team in the NCAA tournament. It worked, they beat George Washington 74-61 on a game earlier today. However we'll stick to using 4INFO because its message back included more info, in this case a box score for the George Washington vs. Duke game.

PayPal has quietly launched a new mobile enabled version of its fund trading service (we hinted it was coming last month). Customers must first activate the mobile component of PayPal by heading online. After that you'll be able to send money and check your account status by texting 729725 (PAYPAL).

Security is obviously an issue, but every transaction with PayPal Mobile requires a PIN that you set up when activating the mobile features. PayPal will also come back and ask for confirmation via an automated call for each transaction. During the sign up process PayPal will call the phone number you set up to make sure it's you. It's automated and you need to input your PIN and if it matches what you put online your account will be activated.

There has been no official announcement yet and it appears things are still changing and slightly buggy (we had to hunt around a bit to find the right place to sign up). Currently the service is only for customers in the US, Canada or UK.