Posts Tagged ‘sms’

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By David Chartier | Published: December 30, 2008 - 11:40AM CT
Ubiquitous microblogging service Twitter is once again making political news today with the announcement that the Consulate General of Israel in New York will hold a “Citizen’s Press Conference” today. David Saranga, Consul of Media and Public Affairs, will be taking questions about [...]

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by Robin Wauters on October 31, 2008
We don’t see it in our Gmail settings (yet), but Webmonkey reports that Gmail Labs has added a very useful opt-in feature for sending text / SMS messages to mobile phones using the built-in Chat functionality.
Turning the option on in your Gmail account settings apparently enables you [...]

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By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 20, 2008 - 01:14PM CT
It turns out that the typical American family is also the most networked, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In addition to having 1.34 children, a dog, and a white picket fence, the American nuclear [...]

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By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 09, 2008 - 05:05PM CT
Hate on the kiddies and their SMS speak all you want, but text messaging is taking off among the masses. AT&T has released data from two studies it recently commissioned, showing that both families and romantic partners are using SMS more and more [...]

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By ALEX MINDLIN
Published: September 28, 2008
In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average subscriber’s volume of text messages has shot upward by 64 percent, while the average number of calls has [...]

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Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
Texting while driving, or simply while crossing the street, is increasingly recognized as hazardous. “Texting automatically removes 10 I.Q. points,” one expert said.

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: September 19, 2008

LOS ANGELES — Senator Barack Obama used one to announce to the world his [...]

Via ARS Technica By David Chartier | Published: September 03, 2008 - 06:13AM CT
Twitter: it’s an extremely simple and social microblogging tool where users can post 140 characters at a time about what’s going on or in reply to someone else. While that might not sound ridiculous on its face, the service is sometimes written [...]

Via ARS Technica By David Chartier | Published: September 03, 2008 - 06:13AM CT
Twitter: it’s an extremely simple and social microblogging tool where users can post 140 characters at a time about what’s going on or in reply to someone else. While that might not sound ridiculous on its face, the service is sometimes written [...]

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By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: August 27, 2008
DENVER — The musician will.i.am, who produced the hit video “Yes We Can” about Senator Barack Obama, calls the Democratic gathering here the first “batonical” convention.
That’s not botanical, as in gardens, but batonical, as in baton and the passing of. The [...]