After that time period of inactivity, Google will send out a text message and e-mail the secondary address you provide.
Consumers like to interact with companies through the contact channel of their choice, be it over the phone or text message or e-mail.
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That means women are less likely to sign up for fraud protection programs like text message or e-mail alerts that warn of abnormal transactions.
Think of Spot as a live clipboard where you can drag photos, webpages and more to share with friends via text message, e-mail or social networking update.
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If you arrive at an airport but your duffel doesn't, you can check its location online with the Trakdot app, or get its location sent to you via text message or e-mail.
Using only a text message or an e-mail takes away the nuance that comes from seeing and hearing people, from exchanging points of view and working toward agreements.
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Finally, when such inconsistencies arise, the system alerts the authorities directly, by e-mail or text message.
Adults know that a careless e-mail, text message, tweet or photo posting can cost someone not only their reputation, but also their career.
In the next 90 days, USCIS will launch a vastly improved Web site that will, for the first time ever, allow applicants to get updates on their status of their applications via e-mail and text message and online.
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Clicking through a few buttons reveals the content of a text message--essentially an e-mail sent to the phone.
All shops have to do is log deliveries and pick-ups through a website that automatically sends e-mail and text-message alerts to addressees.
Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
It is now routine for university students to text, e-mail and instant-message during lectures.
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Twenty-four percent said they had e-mailed and 11% had sent a text message notifying their employer that they were taking a sick day.
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Mobile users can also be duped through so-called "smishing" -- a combination of the words SMS and phishing -- where a user receives a text message asking for personal information like a credit card number, e-mail address or social security number.
The "two-factor" verification system, which will be optional, asks users to register a phone number, e-mail account and six-digit code that would have to be entered, via text message, each time they log in to the site.
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