In comparison, SMS notifications are sent at rates above one message per second require expensive short codes.

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Notably, there was no word on whether or not the phone was saved, or more importantly, whether or not the presumably urgent SMS ever got sent -- but considering this is the second case in a matter of days in which a human being nearly lost their life to a cellphone, we beg you: text responsibly, dear friends.

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Twitter was started when Jack Dorsey sent an SMS message at 9:50pm PT on March 21, 2006.

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Mobile users sent over 6 trillion SMS messages in 2010.

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Three texts with fake news alerts were sent via the broadcaster's SMS service.

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"We'd like to inform our subscribers that al-Jazeera SMS service has been compromised by hackers who have sent fake news, " the TV channel said in a tweet.

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The SMS revolution is gathering speed with 52 million text messages sent daily during December, double the number sent at the same time in 2000.

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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.

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