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Text messages delayed by Christmas surge
News O2, which was recently bought by Spanish company Telefonica, says the Christmas Day surge in text traffic was 30 percent larger than last year, leading to delays in some messages getting through. According to Telstra in Australia, while a record...
[December 29, 2005, 16:25]
Text messages go via satellite
News By next month, however, users of the company's SMS (Short Message Service) service will be able to trade text messages with any number of US mobile phone subscribers, an Iridium representative said. For now, Iridium's tens of thousands of...
[August 5, 2003, 9:09]
Text messages get mission-critical status
News UK companies are starting to rely on text messages more than any other medium to communicate mission-critical and real-time information to employees, partners and customers, according to a survey. The Mobile Data Association, an organisation...
[July 14, 2003, 12:03]
Text messages get speech treatment
News The "synthetic speech conversation" application will allow text messages to be turned into audio and sent to fixed line phones. BT has created a service, which it hopes will appeal to both businesses and consumers, that converts SMS messages into...
[January 8, 2004, 15:35]
Instant messages transform into text messages
News America Online announced an agreement on Tuesday that lets users of its AOL Instant Messenger program exchange text messages with Verizon Wireless TXT Messaging subscribers. This time, AOL will convert AIM messages to SMS (short messaging service...
[July 2, 2003, 8:47]
Malaysians enrol text messages for democracy
News Malaysians will soon be able to use text messages to verify voting information and book intercity bus tickets, according to official news agency Bernama. Users simply text message their identification card (IC) number to the election commission and...
[September 2, 2003, 10:20]
Text messages delayed by Christmas surge
Talkback The New Year's Day surge is largely caused by inebriated revellers wanting to send 'Happy New Year mum/dad/kids/etc.messages. We need a sense of perspective here. It's only mildly irritating if these are delayed so I don't see why a fuss needs to...
[January 4, 2006, 8:18]
Text messages aim to cut bus delays
News Bus operator Metroline will send text message alerts to its drivers that will allow them to speed up or slow down to maintain more even intervals between buses. The control centre then sends the text alert to the driver's dashboard.
[October 20, 2003, 13:40]
Text messages get speech treatment
Talkback I have thought to work on a project that converts the text message from the mobile into the voice message at the reciever end. I am a student of Masters of Computer Sciences. I need some details about the subject.
[March 12, 2004, 19:51]
China will censor text messages
Talkback Simple: I shall make a comment.the title here is just showing that it is with censor. How about the showing of George Bush and his cahoots with China. How about the showing of the panama canal, and why the Bush struck there and had the media...
[August 4, 2003, 1:30]
Malaysians enrol text messages for democracy
Talkback Bravo! Malaysia Boleh!
[September 3, 2003, 9:00]
Instant messages transform into text messages
Talkback I have a nextel and Now I dont know how to turn off getting my im's from being sent to my phone. Help if you could?
[September 4, 2003, 17:42]
China will censor text messages
Talkback hi i think this idea is great.because people around the world can keep in touch with there friends in china.as i do want to do that but i do not no where i can set-up an account like that.anyway this is a good idea.and i give 100% support.
[January 3, 2004, 3:01]
Instant messages transform into text messages
Talkback What about mac users without AOL 8.0 Plus? Will it become available on a mac?
[July 31, 2003, 0:06]
China will censor text messages
News About 10 million text messages are sent every day in Liaoning, while in China as a whole, the country's biggest service provider, China Mobile, has estimated that its customers sent 40 billion text messages last year.
[July 22, 2003, 8:45]
Italian carrier blocks Vodafone text messages
Talkback Have a nice day, have a nice day! well you can repay these companies by sending them a letter when its time for contract renuwal - thanks but no thanks, your unreliable service can get stuffed. That would show them who is boss, its the customers.
[June 25, 2004, 23:25]
Police use text messages to tackle crime
News Police forces in central Birmingham have today launched a text message alert system that will be used to crack down on commercial crime in the city area. Companies who choose to register for the scheme will be entered into a database and connected...
[September 11, 2001, 17:19]
News Schmooze: Labour surges to victory on text messages
News Which explains the real reason Labour won: instead of campaigning via email, they went for the real yoof market and sent loads of text messages. Text messaging ain't what it used to be, says mobile software company Logica -- a mere 50 billion were...
[June 8, 2001, 17:05]
Malaysians divorce by text message
News In India, text messages can be used to pair people up, but in Malaysia, messages can be used to divorce. It allows men and women to create a profile, search for dates and start conversations through SMS messages.
[July 28, 2003, 12:16]
