Warnings about serious problems are sent using short text messages sent to the mobile phones of administrators.
Frivolous communication, including dating, happens increasingly through short text messages, which are cheap.
Podzinger offers very short text transcripts of your search term in context, so you can see whether you want to listen to the clip.
In Europe, 12 billion short text messages were sent last year.
Utsushite Hon'yaku translates short written text between Japanese and either English, Chinese or Korean.
The images are warm and fuzzy shots of puppies and sunsets alongside short-text descriptions that customers must also identify.
Google claimed at the time it was protected by the "fair use" principle because its book search engine showed only short snippets of text for the books it had scanned without permission.
Using it, a snippet of text as short as 20 characters can be assigned unerringly to the language it was written in.
Besides moving more of the wired world into your physical space, Chuah works on new ways to depict yourself online, as wireless data services like short messaging move beyond text to graphics.
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.
SmartPay links users' bank accounts to their mobile-phone numbers, enabling them to pay via short messaging services (SMS, or text messaging).
" The pilot responded by text with "Wilco, " short for "will comply.
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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Although Ms Short and other government delegates were unimpressed by the final Johannesburg text and its separate political declaration, they point to a few specific commitments and a useful emphasis on fighting poverty rather than on conservation.
Digital short-wave broadcasts would be clearer and could carry bits of text too.
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.
Ajax (geek shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which itself is short for extensible markup language) preloads Web content so users can change text, crop and move pictures and add multicolored borders without waiting for a page reload.
The most prevalent ads throughout the company's beta test were short video spots from Esurance, but the network will also provide contextual and text ads.
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.
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.
While Flash mobs -- sudden, unexpected and short-lived gatherings of members of the public, organized by Web sites and text messages -- usually tend towards the surreal (zombie mobs in Toronto, pillow fights in Buenos Aires) they have also been utilized by pressure groups.
Judging by a brief handling of the products, reading text on an EBookman should be a reasonably pleasant experience, at least in the short term.
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