In Europe I've seen countless mobile banking ideas over the last decade - from the soft drinks machine in Helsinki where you paid by SMS, to the phone which doubled as a travelcard for London's transport system, and innumerable schemes involving Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.
Passers-by were invited to express their points of view on the scenes by texting via interactive SMS their personal reaction to what was going on in front of them, and these words were then flashed above the windows for all to read.
Since non-SMS data revenues grew by 17% in the UK, how is it possible that the overall data sales barely increased?
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We've funded the development of a platform being hosted by Youth Agenda, which uses SMS messaging to encourage youth to select leaders on the basis of their attributes and policies as opposed to along tribal lines.
"We'd like to inform our subscribers that al-Jazeera SMS service has been compromised by hackers who have sent fake news, " the TV channel said in a tweet.
Between October 2011 and August 2012, SMS consumption among Finnish iPhone users dropped by 14%.
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Until now, only Android smartphone users have been able to take advantage of the SMS, caller ID and music control functions offered by our HUDs.
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Last month the head of SMS' health care division emulated his French colleagues by breaking out a division to focus on its 258 nursing-and retirement-home clients.
Built on a violence-interruption approach that has been used in contexts as differing as Baltimore and Baghdad, the intervention combines targeted SMS with intensive on-the-ground work by existing peace builders and community leaders to target potential flashpoints of violence.
Subsequently, she plummeted a few feet down onto the subway tracks, only to be saved by a station worker who fearlessly hopped down to rescue her SMS-focused mind (and body, too) as the oncoming train screeched to a halt just 20 meters before running her over.
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For advertisers, push notifications are much cheaper than SMS notifications, which are marked up to pennies a minute by carriers and network middlemen.
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Multiplying this number by 0.05 gives us that the traffic charge when sending an SMS text message next door is 383, 000 US dollars per gigabyte.
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Using the Short Messaging Service (SMS) functions on mobiles, people with hearing difficulties can communicate by typing messages into their phones.
The art of smishing (SMS-Phishing) has been practiced for some time, but a discovery by the wizards at NC State University has uncovered a new vulnerability that could bring the aforesaid act back into the spotlight.
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The move comes as Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS) bids to take advantage of a drive to fit every UK home with a smart meter by 2020.
Early this year, Nadra activated an SMS service to enable voters to find out which city, town or village they were registered in by simply sending their CNIC number to a Nadra host computer.
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