Users should be able to send back short messages to parties that page them.
The RIM BlackBerry's tiny QWERTY keyboard works well for short messages (you type with your thumbs).
Instead, in-video ads promote brand advertising with short messages rather than herding users to a Web site.
The 140-character limit for tweets allows for short messages, perfect for small verses of scripture or inspiration.
All my friends seemed to be dropping snippets of advertising copy into their conversation, short messages from their sponsors.
It would be optimised for large numbers of short messages sent intermittently rather than rapid connection and multi-media download.
For short messages there are two-way pagers like Motorola's T900 Talkabout, not to mention the various short-message services built into cell phones.
The company is considering augmenting the store with new features, such as allowing users to share music clips via short messages, with the option to purchase the entire song.
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.
Some of the users of Twitter, which protesters have used to share short messages amongst themselves, have urged marchers to carry the Koran, citing its verses about bringing peace.
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.
He added that while short messages on Twitter could not carry the whole teachings of the Catholic Church, they would help spread the word to those who wanted to hear.
Trained staff are supposed to interpret these short messages and sort each type of side-effect into coded groups - so that the scale of the problem, if any, can be assessed.
At the same time, the Motorolans we teamed with were incessantly sending each other short messages on two-way pagers that had developed as an oddity out of their legacy paging business.
Instead of trying to maintain a constant stream of communications with a subscriber, the satellites simply receive short messages and zap them down to one of their ground stations on earth.
Using a form of text messaging similar to SMS, this sends out up to a million short messages a day, encouraging the recipients in their local language to contact the national AIDS hot line.
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.
The new compose window, popping out of the bottom of the screen, feels almost like a chat window, meant to suit users who fire off short messages as opposed to those who crank out 1, 000 words in a first message.
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.
Warnings about serious problems are sent using short text messages sent to the mobile phones of administrators.
The Video Mail feature allows invited family members to send short video messages to the FunTab Pro from Zoodles.com.
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Frivolous communication, including dating, happens increasingly through short text messages, which are cheap.
In Europe, 12 billion short text messages were sent last year.
That means short and concise messages.
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Other public health messages are short and snappy, like 'clunk-click every trip' or 'catch it bin it kill it'.
You may come up with several messages that are short and positive that highlight your accomplishments.
An early and classic example of this new opportunity for citizens to participate in society occurred in 2001 when Filipinos, the world's most avid texters at the time, overthrew their president, Joseph Estrada, by mobilising enormous crowds at short notice, using text messages to spread the word.
The Stop Texting Fair Use Act, or STFU Act, would apply to message transmitted using the Short Message Service (SMS) as well as messages containing image, video, and sound content (MMS messages).
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