The SMS message, purporting to come from the BBC, has been circulating around Asian countries since Monday.
When a pupil passes through sensors at the school entrance, the chip sends an SMS message to parents.
Twitter was started when Jack Dorsey sent an SMS message at 9:50pm PT on March 21, 2006.
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Today, you will receive an SMS message on the mobile phone number you gave us during the beta sign up.
Select Comfort bought ads in local newspapers, which instructed users to send the company an SMS message with their zip code.
Printed inside the wrappers of the bars will be a code that can be sent back to a given phone number in an SMS message to see if it wins a prize.
The phone, which has yet to be officially named, has a screen comprised of a grid of pins, which move up and down to form into Braille shapes and characters whenever an SMS message or email is received.
Multiplying this number by 0.05 gives us that the traffic charge when sending an SMS text message next door is 383, 000 US dollars per gigabyte.
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Depending on your math and service plan, the price of sending a simple SMS text message can range from a minor nuisance, to high-tech highway robbery.
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Having recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, the humble SMS text message has a bittersweet birthday present: plenty of indication that it is gradually becoming obsolete.
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This has helped make it a popular alternative to SMS and MMS message services.
When is a smart phone a megaphone and an SMS a group message?
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.
It can send a message to all message addresses (phone number, e-mail address, instant messaging screen name) for all message types (voicemail, e-mail, instant message, SMS, MMS, fax).
Short Message Service (SMS texts) will continue to be the primary means of mobile payment.
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The Short Message System (SMS) is becoming very popular as a promotion tool for many companies.
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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When you receive an urgent message, AwayFind will notify you with a call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or delegate the message to someone you specify.
The latest thing in Europe is SMS push services broadcasting a single message to multiple subscribers.
Remember pre-Internet email systems or SMS where you could only send a message to someone on the same system?
In comparison, SMS notifications are sent at rates above one message per second require expensive short codes.
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Insoo doesn't even have to take the phone out of his pocket to send an SMS. He knows how to slide it open, which buttons to push how many times to reach the "Send SMS" menu option, compose the entire text message, and hit the send button -- all without even looking at the phone.
My message to them: Move now and bring SMS and data roaming charges down quickly, or we will be forced to also intervene there very shortly.
Mobile users can also be duped through so-called "smishing" -- a combination of the words SMS and phishing -- where a user receives a text message asking for personal information like a credit card number, e-mail address or social security number.
The service purportedly sends a message to friends on all their channels, Facebook, chat, SMS and Twitter.
Verizon said the number of texts sent by its users continues to grow every year and highlighted that a high percentage of its smartphone users select pricing plans that include SMS, an abbreviation that dates to 1985 when texting was known as short message system.
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