"Fifty-fifty is acceptable for simple services like text messaging or callbacks, " he says.
Rather like text messaging on a mobile phone, data travel over spare network capacity not used by telephone calls.
Much of mobile data spending is still on simple features like text messaging, but carriers are banking on a host of data services for future growth.
As wireless customers spend less money on plain-vanilla cellphone voice calls, carriers are betting that data and entertainment services like text messaging, over-the-air music stores, streaming video and mobile Web browsing will lead growth.
Some of you may have used new-fangled methods of voting like text messaging, or maybe you posted your preference and found that you were one of a growing number of people who posted their preferences instead of popping along to the local polling station.
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One of the markers of the digital age is the proliferation of handy electronic connecting tools, like email, text messaging and social media platforms.
The startup's servers provide simple access to web services like Twitter and even text messaging (via Twillo) -- letting developers focus on core appliance functionality rather than the intricacies of HTTP requests, WiFi APIs and network sockets.
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If you really want to input text, you can do that from within any messaging application like email or text.
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Another unit, Ulticom, creates software for signaling associated with things like roaming wireless service and text messaging.
Another unit, Ulticom (other-otc: ULCM - news - people ), creates software for signaling associated with things like roaming wireless service and text messaging.
Besides moving more of the wired world into your physical space, Chuah works on new ways to depict yourself online, as wireless data services like short messaging move beyond text to graphics.
Almost 60 percent of interruptions at work involve using communication and social tools, like email, social networks, text messaging, instant messaging or switching between different applications.
Well, text messaging has evolved just like Pinterest and Instagram and progressive marketers are starting to insert pictures, videos, songs and all forms of compelling content into their messaging.
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Text-messaging volumes in countries like Spain and Netherlands have started falling steeply, while volumes continued rising during 2011 in countries like France and Finland.
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These can be saved or shared via email or text messaging, or uploaded to sites like Facebook.
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And even extremely profitable text messaging is threatened by new applications, like Apple's iMessage, that allow smartphone users to interact without racking up texting charges.
London-based Skype Technologies distributes an application that works like an instant messaging service, but instead of trading text, users plug in a microphone and speakers and have a voice conversation.
Now, however, it looks like one wireless mainstay may eventually be adopted on planes: text messaging.
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We're keen on the fbt, a phone designed for braille text messaging, and the Tap, which is shaped like a light switch and functions like one too -- when you tap it, the phone turns off so you can live once again in peace.
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Ericsson made some interesting accessories for the T28, like the "CHA-10 Chatboard" (a QWERTY keyboard for text messaging), the "MP3 hands-free kit HPM-10" (an MP3 player with an MMC card slot and standard 3.5mm headphone jack) and the aforementioned "Bluetooth phone adapter DBA-10".
Like all his classmates, Insoo's main means of communication with his buddies is text messaging.
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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