New Age of Cable Retail: SMS TXT to Purchase - from GTBP.org

Watch out parents of teenagers, you already made the step to the unlimited texting plan from your mobile phone providers, now your kids can purchase products with a text message.  No longer do they need to...

TELUS Executive Information Leaked to combat new $0.15 inbound text messaging...

Canadian mobile subscribers were surprised Friday morning when private information on TELUS Executives began to leak out via the popular mobile phone website "Howard Forums". Click Here to view the leak on Howard...

Researchers Studying 'Texting' as its own Language

Oh how I long for someone to release a mashed-up, remixed version of that early-90s Color Me Badd hit...reimagined as "I Wanna Txt U Up".Those crazy kids, they're using their telephones for writing! What will...

Analyst Predicts the Death of SMS

" The days of SMS are numbered now that mobile email access is becoming a commodity, research firm Gartner says. Long the preserve of businessmen in power suits, mobile email is about to hit the masses with one in five email users accessing their accounts wirelessly by...

The Eyes Have It: Culture and Emotional Cues

Ultimately, people around the world seem to want the same things: happiness, security, a home, food on the table, and a snazzier mobile phone than the person on their right or left. However, our culture and...

Magic Thumbs! 13-Year-Old Wins Text-Messaging Championship

"I just wasn't fast enough," said Nguyen, a 23-year-old engineer from Pennsylvania. Asked how it felt to take second place, he was clearly disappointed: "I just got beaten by a teenage girl, but you...

SMS Marketing - still under utilised

The use of SMS marketing is still being under utilised in most markets but there is still room for growth in the medium.Of course it has to be permission based - push marketing is fine, but can backfire badly if the recipient is not expecting it. As the Big Picture blog...

Finland's PM Ends Romance with a TXT MSG

It seems that the Prime Minister of Finland, Matti Vanhanen is taken some break-up tips from Britney Spears.  His now ex-girlfriend says he broke up with her in a text message that said "that's it." ...

TXT MSG not :( for ppl

"A Canadian research team have concluded that text messaging does not negatively impact the grammar of Canadian teens. It looks like people are just getting more creative with their use of language, which ultimately proves a better understanding of words as a whole....

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