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RSS text messagingText messaging to be worth $6.5bn within two years
News Mobile LifeStreams believes text traffic will be enhanced even further with two new messaging standards, EMS (enhanced messaging service) and MMS (multimedia messaging service), which will enter the market when networks adopt 2.5G and 3G networks. [13 Mar 2001]
Integrating Text Messaging Into the Healthcare Staffing Environment
White Paper Text messaging, known as SMS, has the potential to dramatically simplify and improve communications between staffing offices and their staff while reducing costs and improving business processes. This is accomplished by integrating text messaging... [28 Feb 2008]
Telemarketing Company Use Text Messaging Software to Boost Campaign Success
White Paper 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. [16 Feb 2006]
Push-to-talk: Is text messaging on the ropes?
News And while youngsters are keen on the blend of IM-style presence functionality and SMS-like voice messaging, the older generation that the text revolution has passed by are keen to get on the bandwagon too. [30 Mar 2004]
Mobile Phone Culture and the Love of Text Messaging
White Paper This paper explores mobile phone culture and its wider stakes by focussing on a phenomenon that was not thought initially to be at all significant in terms of the grand futures of convergent media, namely the history of the comparatively recent... [10 May 2006]
Mobile Messaging: Part I - Voice Makes Room for Text, MMS
White Paper 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. [30 Jun 2006]
Text messaging explosion triggers Oftel investigation
News The current controls, scheduled to end in March 2002, were set in 1998 on BT Cellnet and Vodafone after Oftel had referred the two companies to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. David Edmonds, Oftel director general, said: "Around two-thirds... [20 Feb 2001]
Multichat: Persistent, Text-as-You-Type Messaging in a Web Browser for Fluid Multi-Person Interaction and Collaboration
White Paper To facilitate face to face conversation between deaf and hearing participants, the authors created a cross-platform, browser-based, persistent text-as-you-type system that aggregates each individual's utterances in revisable personal notes on a... [07 Mar 2006]
Text messaging gets poetic: Shakespeare turns in grave
News However, before putting pen to paper it is worth noting that poems can only be 160 characters long and must be submitted by SMS text message via your mobile phone. Here's a sample of the competition from the Guardian site: [29 Mar 2001]
Brits smash New Year text messaging record
News Despite video and picture messaging, Brits are still in love with good old-fashioned texting - this New Year, we sent over 130 million of them. Global mobile messaging revenue could reach $69bn by 2007, according to analysts. [06 Jan 2005]
20 per cent text tax plan scuppered
News Plans by the Philippines to put a tax on text messaging have come to naught after protesters made their feelings known. The government had said it was considering a 20 per cent tax on text messaging to try to recover some of the national debt. [16 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: MMS
Cheat Sheet Will it be as popular as text messaging? MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging Service. Pundits say 30p is a good price simply because it will allow users to test out the service before committing to signing on the dotted line for all-you-can-eat... [09 Aug 2002]
Spammers beware: The advertising watchdog is after you
News The UK's advertising watchdog has taken new measures to stop junk email and text messaging, by making it mandatory in most cases for advertisers to get explicit consent before they can send commercial messages. [05 Mar 2003]
SMS comes of age
Comment The growth in text messaging traffic has been one of the surprises of the last five years. Try finding evidence of a mobile network operator that predicted the boom in text messaging, or SMS (short message services). [01 Aug 2001]
Orange customers hit by delays to SMS services
News Content providers are still waiting for reverse-billed text messaging from Orange, nearly three months after the services were originally meant to go live. The news comes as Orange released the results of a survey saying that "94 per cent of UK... [28 Mar 2002]
