And to top it all off, upcoming features include free text messaging, custom ringtones, wallpapers and location-based services.
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Starting in the first quarter of 2013, textPlus free text and calling services will be integrated into FreedomPop's free wireless internet offering.
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The new service helps save lives by enabling patients to validate the integrity of their medicine by sending a free text message.
It offers subscribers 217 free text messages and 43 free minutes of voice calls per month as long as they agree to receive six advertisements by text message every day.
All subscribers have been sent a free text telling them the service had been suspended and they are being advised to check the council's school closures website for up-to-date information.
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The firm has also offered free video games punctuated with ads to customers in Greece, and free text messages to Czech students who agree to accept ads in the same format.
This is something they are already seeing with regard to SMS revenues with the advent of mobile messaging services like WhatsApp, Pinger, and GroupMe, which use the Internet to send free text messages.
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End-to-End Hands-Free Text Messaging: Dragon already lets you dictate text messages to contacts completely hands free, and with these latest updates, it now reads incoming text messages aloud with the ability to respond, no hands required.
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Charles Wang is trying to get subscribers addicted to his free text-messaging service, PingCo, so that he can start signing them up for premium services such as backing up address books, selling astrological charts and providing weather updates.
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It has free customizable text alerts and email alerts, which can help students keep track of their spending and due dates.
For our customers who go on to receive quarterly statements, they can easily keep track of their money by requesting free mobile text and email alerts.
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
The campaign includes posters on public transport and several free phone and text numbers for licensed cabs.
This was the first free e-text, and none better as a declaration of freedom from the old-boy network of publishing.
It provides free calls and text messages within the US and Canada and has some of the lowest international calling rates around.
Indrani Medhi, an assistant researcher, is developing text-free user interfaces that might appeal to the millions of illiterate citizens.
Its only product was a free voice- and text-messaging service for cellphone users.
For the first time ever, consumers will have access to 100 percent free mobile data, text and calling services, enabling them to save thousands of dollars every year.
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They send that code, via text message, to a toll-free phone number, and immediately receive a text back that indicates whether or not the drug is legit.
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That lets customers register for free alert via email, text, or phone a day before a first delivery attempt.
And second, because he is dealing with the underlying mathematical theory of computing, his text is blissfully free of brand-names and buzzwords.
It buys network capacity in bulk from carriers so users can send text messages for free (in India subscribers don't have to pay for receiving texts).
Add a note and use the virtual keyboard to include your comments, highlight text, scribble free form, and even add a stamp to emphasize a point.
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"Mail Honyaku Concier" (honyaku means "translation" in Nihongo, while that last word is a play on "concierge") is a free app that lets users translate text into different languages.
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Some of the new offerings: free software that can tailor the text on any Web site to your personal visual needs, and a cellphone that can snap photos of text -- like signs and restaurant menus -- and read it back to you.
Users of those IM programs can engage in text and voice chats for free.
WhatsApp is a cross-platform smartphone app that lets you send text and picture messages for free, using your data allowance.
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Like Sprint, it is letting its (postpaid) U.S. subscribers make calls and send text messages to Japan for free until April 10.
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YY, which boasts more than 400 million registered users who engage in real-time group activities like karaoke and tutoring through audio, text and video on the free platform, went public in the U.S. rather than in Hong Kong or Singapore because its platform has "global implications, " Chief Executive David Xueling Li said in New York, through a translator.
Others still may be tempted to try other technologies, such as junk text-messages, which are making the rounds in Japan (though sending text-messages is usually not free).
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