Gaming by Bluetooth--one player versus another across a room--is another attraction, as is the ability to send short messages across a room via Bluetooth during a meeting.

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It also fosters new ways of using the telephone: to send short messages (a billion a month in Europe), to pay for a Coke, to make a bet, to receive instant recommendations on where to park or to eat.

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When I first heard about Shenzhen-based Tencent during the early 2000s from ICQ managers, Tencent was working with China Mobile to allow PC users to send short messages from PCs to phones, and then via SMS (mobile Short Messaging Service) back again.

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Users should be able to send back short messages to parties that page them.

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The Video Mail feature allows invited family members to send short video messages to the FunTab Pro from Zoodles.com.

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Until recently, most of DoCoMo's customers used their phones mainly to send and receive short messages, he points out, and GSM users have been able to do that since 1993.

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The Philippine cellphone market has been growing at an exceptional rate, riding on the crest of the popularity of SMS (short messaging system), in which subscribers send text messages to each other, and on the poor service of the largest landline and longtime telephone monopoly PLDT, which operates Globe's closest cellular rival, Smart.

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