In fact, there is an SMS (Short Messaging Service) service that will automatically send you alerts on your cell phone.
Using the Short Messaging Service (SMS) functions on mobiles, people with hearing difficulties can communicate by typing messages into their phones.
Therefore, its short messaging service has always worked really well on a mobile device while Facebook has always felt bulky and ill-sized for a mobile format.
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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.
The findings illustrate the challenges facing Twitter in demonstrating to small-business owners the benefits of using the short-messaging service to reach customers.
Apple Inc. and Twitter Inc. held discussions more than a year ago about Apple possibly making a strategic investment in the short-messaging service, at a time when many technology giants were playing catch-up in social media.
Those companies are now down 30% to 40% from their highs, two weeks after Netease reported a 20% decline in its short-messaging-service business.
Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
According to the Yankee Group, more than half of all teens between the ages of 13 and 17 are active users of wireless text messaging, sending blurbs using the "SMS" short message service.
But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.
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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