text message in comment and analysis
Through the fog... Predictive texting
Comment Text messaging, or short message service (SMS) as it is more formally known, could be about to go through another revolution. Its tx4u product is yet to arrive in our pockets but when it does the number... [22 May 2003]
SMS comes of age
Comment With premium-priced SMS messages customers simply find something they wish to purchase from a website, then send a text message to a specified number, including a product code, and moments later a reply... [01 Aug 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: the future of SMS, Siebel and open source .Net
Comment This represented the tenth month in succession for text message volume surpassing the billion figure. While the text message vendors are trying to keep the market... [29 Jul 2002]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.10.04
Round-Up News reached Silicon Towers this week of a young lad from Cheam Common School in Surrey expelled by text message, after the headmaster was unable to contact his parents any other way. The mother of the... [29 Oct 2004]
Why SMS will take some toppling
Comment Catching criminals has now been added to the list of things you can do in 160 characters or less, as the German police announced plans to quickly disseminate descriptions of wanted felons and details of stolen cars via... [08 Nov 2002]
Will IP unify communications?
Comment This could mean the ability to make a call, send a text message or an instant message (IM) to someone just by clicking on their name in a contact database. The DRC plans to add... [18 Feb 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 4.11.05
Round-Up The Round-Up hopes it is a two-part question which, first off, awards some points for spotting which one was written by the Romantic-era poet and which was the text message. While the Round-Up, as a... [04 Nov 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.05.05
Round-Up Continuing the football theme, Popa has become the latest person to suffer the misfortune of being sacked by text message, according to a story on Ananova. And on a tenuous level there were certainly... [27 May 2005]
Leader: Will we ever e-vote?
Leader On the one hand one of the drivers for multi-channel e-voting is the convenience argument - with people leading increasingly busy lives they would be more likely to vote if they didn't have to trail to a polling station but could do it... [05 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.08.05
Round-Up According to the survey, a shocking 34 per cent of respondents admitted to no longer sending postcards, favouring a text message instead. It's meant to sound like 'abroad', while also getting across the... [26 Aug 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Future messaging, the forgotten DB and Microsoft's open source AV spoiler
Comment In a more complex application, you can receive a text message from a mobile phone, send more instant messages to colleagues and then establish a conference between people at their desks and people on... [23 Jun 2003]
Nothing ruder than the Tudor
Comment So he sent her a tart text message saying: "Why are you late? He later approached a court to find out if the message had legal status. I replied with a rather crude... [06 Jul 2001]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.05.07
Round-Up The real icing on the cake was provided by the sending of the world's highest text message, which was sent to its original author, Motorola staffer John Barlow, who had won an internal competition. The... [25 May 2007]
The Bloor Perspective: the US pays for it online and MMS - winner or loser?
Comment It will be, they claim, the next killer app - stealing the crown of the traditional text message. Last week in the UK Orange gave details about its impending launch of a picture message... [19 Aug 2002]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.03
Round-Up Two weeks back the Round-Up brought you news of an Australian man who claimed to have been sacked by text message. Last weekend employees of the Accident Group were coming to terms with the fact that... [06 Jun 2003]
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