It works globally with any cell phone or SMS enabled device for a low annual price.
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Remember pre-Internet email systems or SMS where you could only send a message to someone on the same system?
This makes it easier for them to compose emails or SMS messages.
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The device fits into a checked bag and reports city location in real time to any mobile, Apple, Android, or SMS capable devices.
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The Trakdot LuggageTM tracker fits into a checked bag and reports city location in real time to any mobile, Apple, Android, or SMS capable devices.
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Meyer created a communications system that works on any telephone network and can be accessed on any mobile handset, PC or landline phone using voice messages, e-mail or SMS text.
Once the device is registered on the Trakdot website and placed inside a checked bag, it will deliver location information directly to the user's mobile phone or SMS device via text or email.
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The retail package includes the Trakdot Luggage device, luggage tag, and batteries, works globally with any cell phone or SMS enabled device for a low annual price, and each device can be linked to multiple phones.
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However, unlike with WP8 and its NT kernel, other apps have no access to the lockscreen, so all you'll get at a glance will be calendar appointments or sparse notification icons for email, calls or SMS. Any missed tweets or Facebook interaction, for instance, will remain just that if you pull your phone out of a pocket and glance at it.
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It's not unusable, but it's not Twitter-fast, or even SMS-fast.
Younger users tend to prefer the more spontaneous SMS or chat systems as a primary method of communicating.
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One young entrepreneur is Susan Eve Oguya, eagerly telling me about her SMS or text service for Kenyan farmers, MFarm.
The company reported its youth-oriented brand, Hi, saw an 8% decline in outgoing SMS or text messages per customer in the first three months of this year compared with the first quarter of 2010.
According to the research almost 40% of consumers who previously opted in to receiving promotional emails from a retail marketer are also interested in getting promotional messages from these same retailers via SMS or text messaging.
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MessageVine's server supports interaction via its own PC client or those of AOL's ICQ or Microsoft's MSN Messenger, and also from mobile phones using WAP, SMS, or Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo's I-mode system.
SmartPay links users' bank accounts to their mobile-phone numbers, enabling them to pay via short messaging services (SMS, or text messaging).
The services could be rendered on low cost devices in the form of SMS transactions or in the form of mobile applications for smart phones.
But these days, Insoo and his friends don't simply use their phones to send an SMS, or to take pictures or listen to MP3 music.
On July 28, 2010, India told RIM to either allow New Delhi to monitor its customers encrypted e-mails and SMS messages or they will terminate RIMs authorization to sell in India.
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The phone, which has yet to be officially named, has a screen comprised of a grid of pins, which move up and down to form into Braille shapes and characters whenever an SMS message or email is received.
So far, promotional campaigns that rely on SMS text messaging or social media tend to gain more traction with consumers than any other mobile marketing strategy.
In addition to the existing social network integration, Flipboard now includes a share button of its own on magazine covers -- this allows you to share magazines via SMS, email or on Pinterest.
Notably, there was no word on whether or not the phone was saved, or more importantly, whether or not the presumably urgent SMS ever got sent -- but considering this is the second case in a matter of days in which a human being nearly lost their life to a cellphone, we beg you: text responsibly, dear friends.
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In addition to any Facebook messages or calls you already send or make, Facebook Home pulls SMS text messages into the mix.
The amount of information shared, not via Facebook, Pinterest or on ipads, but using simple SMS messaging is staggering.
The app makes it extremely easy for users to upload photos, and then access them on Amazon.com, where they can be shared via email, SMS, Facebook, or Twitter.
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The FSA noted that if any relevant conversation (from voice, SMS to IM) be received or commenced on private communication equipment, they would expect the call to be terminated immediately and the conversation diverted to a recorded business line.
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When your driving speed is above 25MPH, the service (which can be disabled if you prefer) sends an automatic SMS response to anyone who calls you or sends a text, letting them know you'll get in touch with them as soon as you've finished your journey.
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My message to them: Move now and bring SMS and data roaming charges down quickly, or we will be forced to also intervene there very shortly.
When you receive an urgent message, AwayFind will notify you with a call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or delegate the message to someone you specify.
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