But the recent ones appear to come from people the target would know and contain text that plausibly could have been written by the alleged sender of the email, he said.

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Consequently, carriers are offering lessons on how to text, introducing phones with larger sized buttons to make it easier to text and increasing media budgets to target older users.

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Special lessons over a three week period will focus on how text, e-mail and social networking sites target vulnerable youngsters.

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Sites like mint.com can be set up to send text messages to your phone if you start spending more than your target in a particular area.

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When the target audience members fired up their Palm devices, they were greeted with a simple text-and-graphics message, which described Intraware's online software sales and services and asked them to submit their e-mail address for more information.

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For the totally clueless, SurveyMonkey has templates to follow, and quick, modular components allow the surveyor to run multiple choice, matrix of choices, rating scale, text box, and demographic questions under the noses of his or her target respondents with a simple click of a button.

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Once you click it, you can then swipe your finger across any text area to look up definition or translation, and you can choose your desired target language in the app's settings.

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