Pankaj Shah and Zaw Thet are launching 4iNFO. This is a very cool SMS service that i have been beta testing for the last month.
Essentially you can SMS a information request (like “weather new york”) to 44636 (4INFO) and get back an SMS with your information. i’ve tried this for flight times, movie times, yellow pages look-ups, stocks, and more.
they even have an undergrad feature called “shot” that will SMS you back a random shot (if you happen to want to impress people at a bar)…
Google has been doing something along these lines for several months:
http://www.google.com/sms/