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Text Messaging Could Pose Health Risk
News The report points out that text or SMS messaging is especially popular with children, who could be harming themselves by holding the phone in front of their body as they type. Since the handset is normally held near to waist level for this activity...
[May 24, 2001, 11:30]
Text Messaging Takes To The Skies
News SITA is currently working with several airlines to introduce two-way text messaging by the end of this year, said the statement. This follows a trial of SITA's one-way text messaging service on board Singapore Airlines (SIA) aircraft.
[September 17, 2003, 11:25]
Text-messaging Services Face Capacity Crunch
News Logica has warned that spending cuts by debt-laden mobile phone network operators mean they will soon be unable to cope with text-messaging traffic. In what may be a sign of future difficulties for mobile phone users, the consultancy argued that...
[September 4, 2002, 16:00]
Text Messaging Is On The Wane, Warns Logica
News Logica has warned investors that the boom in text messaging is slowing down. Logica, a major supplier of text messaging software to the mobile industry, has benefited strongly from the explosion in SMS messaging.
[June 6, 2001, 14:50]
Text Messaging Made Easy
News Miranda claims that text messaging, which he describes as the defining characteristic of the mobile generation, has become the language of today's tech-rich but time-poor youth. Text messaging is an important revenue stream for mobile network...
[November 22, 2000, 11:27]
Text Messaging Lorry Driver Gets Five Years
News He had earlier described the act of text messaging while driving as "wickedly dangerous". The lorry driver accused of running down and killing a man while typing a text message was sentenced to five years imprisonment Wednesday for what was...
[February 15, 2001, 11:55]
Telemarketing Company Use Text Messaging Software To Boost Campaign Success
White Papers Fluent is pioneering the use of a wireless text (SMS) messaging software solution that delivers information to large numbers of mobile telephone users instantaneously. Direct communication continues to be essential in the telemarketing industry.
[February 16, 2006, 23:00]
Airline Launches In-flight Text Messaging
News Starting July, select Singapore Airlines flights will allow text messages to be sent via Short Messaging Service (SMS) to mobile phone users around the world. Apart from text messaging, passengers will be able to use the same platform for email...
[April 25, 2002, 9:47]
GPs Turn To Text Messaging
News The patient care messaging is functional and secure. Patients across the West London borough will soon receive GP appointment reminders and health information by text messages. To receive the text messages, patients will be asked to register their...
[November 24, 2006, 7:26]
Mobile Messaging: Part I - Voice Makes Room For Text, MMS
White Papers The market is still dominated by SMS (Short Message Service), the text messaging service first developed in the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) world in Europe and launched commercially in most markets in the early 1990s.
[June 30, 2006, 0:00]
Text Messaging Blamed For Pedestrian's Death
News A lorry driver was accused Monday of killing a pedestrian while typing a text message on his mobile phone. He denies that he was typing a text message just before the accident happened, so a trial will be held to rule on the issue.
[February 12, 2001, 14:50]
3jam Reply-All Text Messaging (BlackBerry)
Downloads 3jam is the only way to send a text message to any number of friends at once, have everyone know who got the message, and have the replies go to everyone.jam makes it fun and easy to coordinate and connect with people from any mobile phone using...
[December 15, 2006, 4:47]
SMS Messaging Hits The Nine Billion Per Month Mark
News Once GPRS technology is available, messaging will benefit from the increased data rates. SMS is very popular today, but people will soon demand multimedia messaging," said Strowbridge, who is confident that video postcards will be even more...
[October 5, 2000, 7:33]
Singaporeans Warned Not To Text And Drive
News Text messaging while driving is an offence in Singapore, a police spokesman has warned. He was replying to a letter from a reader who was in a bus where the driver, in full view of alarmed passengers, text messaged with one hand while driving with...
[August 29, 2003, 10:20]
McDonald's Takes Texting Off The UK Menu
News McDonald's has pulled the plug on a pioneering marketing push based on text messaging, but the move doesn't bode ill for such campaigns, say analysts. McDonald's decision to end the promotional push, one of the first to tap into text messaging, was...
[May 1, 2003, 12:04]
Pushing The Envelope On IM
News Already, instant messaging applications from mainstream software and media companies Yahoo, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft offer a long menu of communications tools that go beyond the traditional text-based instant message.
[July 31, 2001, 9:06]
Windows XP Messenger Takes Aim At AOL
News Microsoft this week will introduce a test version of Windows XP that significantly boosts the abilities of instant messaging software to provide text, chat, video, audio and telephony services. MSN Messenger is an incredibly popular technology that...
[June 4, 2001, 8:58]
Philips Brings Texting To Fixed-line Phone
News Dutch electronics giant Philips has launched its flagship fixed-line phone with text messaging support, and is set to make household phones even more like mobile phones in the coming months. The Onis 300, unveiled in Singapore last Thursday, is the...
[June 16, 2003, 9:32]
Wireless Users Pick Price Over Features
News As wireless carriers continue to promote advanced services like Internet access and text messaging, customers still care more about basic features, according to a recent study. Only 6 percent said that more enhanced services like wireless Internet...
[June 7, 2002, 7:32]
Gizmo5 - Powerful, Portable Messaging
Blog I mentioned recently that I use Gizmo5 for most of my text messaging. It certainly is nice to have only one messaging program running instead of three or more! This is in part because I like the interface, which is clean and easy to read, and in...
[April 2, 2008, 12:03]
