Because audio books are not just about the text, they are about who is reading the text, in most cases skilled performers who can bring the text alive.
Phone customers are going beyond just text messaging and now want to watch YouTube.
Why can't the Senate just rewrite the text to its liking and move it along?
Just as text-messaging has become extremely popular, they expect MMS to catch on quickly.
Each of them try to answer questions, but mostly they just read the text off the box.
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"It's great that they took time out just to text me, " added Darby.
Jeremy Hunt had just sent a text message to James Murdoch congratulating him on the progress of his bid.
"The ability to interact rather than just reading a text in this technology-driven age will probably drive more interest, " Tierney said.
It works well enough when you're using it that way, but when you're just entering text the old-fashioned way, it can be finicky and imprecise.
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Users are more likely to calm down and actually share their concern when they can navigate easily and type their input into just one text box.
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This isn't just another text-to-speech demo though, StorEbook uses the impressive and appropriately named library of sampled phonemes to speak in unique, realistic voices for each character.
"If you're an enterprise that is doing just basic text e-mail back and forth, chances are you're not going to run into any problems here, " he says.
Futuristic handsets that can handle multimedia, rather than just text messages, can download news and information faster and can connect easily to corporate networks are hugely important to all mobile operators.
By making it as simple as just sending a text message to start a conversation, these tools help to accelerate the on-boarding and adoption process, making online collaboration visible, engaging, and participatory.
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It has the benefit of pulling profile data, but more impressive is its structure: by default, the emails in an exchange are collapsed, and you can click on a single message to reveal just the text sent in that email.
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The difficulties of writing this type of history are extreme when a single volume of just over 300 text pages has to cover a diverse continent from Ireland to Poland, from Bergen to Palermo, over a period when it was changing so fast.
Pinterest is all about visual year-round with the simple layout of images and using just a bit of text.
Shy and evasive in person, he fills with a wry swagger when he is just a stream of text.
Websites that were once just 50 kilobytes of text and tiny pictures now come with music, video and animated graphics.
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Where getting on the phone with their high school friends seemed foreign when they could just make plans via text message and IM.
But this is a case that needs to be made and remade from first principles in every political generation, not just by consulting a text put on paper in a bygone age.
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You can set up your home page, displaying just about whatever kinds of text and pictures and graphics you'd like, in Soho or Paris.
One slight annoyance though comes if you just want to highlight some text for a copy and paste job, as you will have to remember to click out of the hyperwords menu before you can continue.
One source has told me that data devices that display video(think streaming a tv show or a basketball game) use 10 times the amount of bandwidth of audio devices or ones that just deliver simple emails or text messages.
But text is just one small piece of how our world has been changed by technology.
Just then, I got a text from my wife asking where we were meeting for our date night.
Each summary has a headline at the top, and text that just fits on to the mobile screen.
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Those friends receive realtime notifications, just as they would with a text message.
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