Or what if you could send a text message to everyone in your neighborhood?
"Rather than leave a voicemail, people will more likely send a text, " he said.
The system can send a text message to a driver when the car is charged and ready to drive.
The only way to send a text message was to write a letter and slap a stamp on it.
Possession of a mobile or cell phone plus an airtime package does not simply allow you to send a text message to one person.
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Naturally then, Facebook would want people to be able to click to send a text message or phone call without leaving to a rival service.
The women send a text message or make a phone call or fill in a sheet, marking out how many pieces of which products they need.
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Esendex, a mobile messaging service provider based in Nottingham, has been creating the means for clients to send a text message for more than eleven years.
When calls come in, a large image representing the caller appears on the screen along with options to drag an on-screen icon to ignore, answer, or send a text reply.
The claim is that the telecoms companies charge us more per unit of data to send a text message next door than it costs to send a message to Mars.
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For example, you can create an out-of-office message that includes a link to an online form that a person can use to override your filter system and send a text message to your phone.
These typically do not charge for app-to-app calls, but do require the user to buy credit if they want to call or send a text to a standard mobile or landline number.
Then there is digital technology: instead of arriving on the dot, you can send a text message apologising for being late (with nearly 25 billion messages sent in 2005, Germany is one of Europe's text-messaging champions).
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The Web admin can decide to send a text message back to the sender to verify the information, send out a blast alert to large numbers of people or post the information onto a Web page with location information from Google Maps (or do all three).
You cannot use a speech-driven device to make a note while talking on the phone, for example, or to send a surreptitious text message during a boring meeting.
These include writing down their medication on a calendar or getting someone to send them a text message to remind them, he added.
After that time period of inactivity, Google will send out a text message and e-mail the secondary address you provide.
Just say "Tell John where I am, " and Dragon will send John a text with a link to your location on a map.
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For friends who are not on Facebook, the app will send them a text message, so people do not have to decide which is the best way to reach someone.
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If you still manage to leave your favourite jacket behind, it will send you a text, email or Facebook message with the GPS coordinates of the last known location so you can track it down on Google Maps.
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Linktone's premise is simple enough: Users send the company a text message, ordering anything from the song "Tong Hua" ("Fairy Tale") to the daily installment of a romance novel.
From there, we see a hot air balloonist and ballet dancer initiate video recording and send an email or text with a voice command, which are likely to be jobs one and two for most users.
People can send text messages to a number provided on QWhere.org, and will be replied with relevant resources in the community.
There are artificial tornadoes in glass tubes, a creepy video art installation, a cooperative Pac-Man game, and a place to send text messages to fish.
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By knowing the size and shape of their fields, farmers can then use correct amounts of fertilizer and plan for future soil improvements. eDairy in Sri Lanka also allows farmers to send text messages to a network of veterinarians and extension workers requesting services.
"We'll ensure we keep any maintenance work to a minimum which will help customers send and receive text and picture messages via their mobiles, " a spokesman for O2 said.
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According to Sprint, a person can send about 30-50 text messages in the 180 seconds it takes, on average, to hold a voice call.
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Obama reached a compromise with his security detail, Gibbs said, that will allow him to send text messages to his senior staff and a small group of close friends.
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