Organizers were sending text-message blasts on Tuesday to remind subscribers of times and places for the marches.
Well, they already accepted higher minimum text-message packages and unlimited plans with a rather pricey bottom tier.
One hopes that Twitter--and text-message costs--can teach a new generation the same lesson.
If no message arrives, the central computer sends a text-message reminder to the patient, or to a family member or carer.
All shops have to do is log deliveries and pick-ups through a website that automatically sends e-mail and text-message alerts to addressees.
The Lamar County School Board in Missouri recently implemented a policy forbidding teachers and students from having any text-message conversations or social-networking friendships.
The deletion of the two earlier tweets, along with text-message conversations that Ravi had with Huang and Wei, form part of the indictment against him.
Moreover, Japan's text-message-crazy consumers might find the iPhone's virtual keyboard cumbersome.
Participants were sent a text-message reminder of what they would have won had they shed the weight, which did spur some to take their diet up a notch.
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Ms. Linkfield, who also confesses she has a text-message alert that whistles ("I was getting dirty looks" for that, she says), gave up on the line's Quiet Commute cars.
With the one mobile app you can control and check all your household sensors, or you can program Iris to send you text-message alerts when, say, your back door is open.
Bling Nation is looking to change that with its service, which pairs RFID-enabled stickers with a back-end system that charges purchases to credit cards (via PayPal) and sends text-message receipts to cellphones.
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He can address a joint session of Congress, as Obama will on Tuesday night, and every paragraph, if not every sentence, will be dissected in real time by people serving as a global jury, rendering second-by-second judgments on social networking sites and cell phone text-message screens.
But after making both the newspaper and pillow requests, we received two messages in our Conrad Concierge app mailbox: One flagged an error with our request, and another said our request had been submitted. (We decided to be optimistic.) You can also request to have a text-message confirmation sent to your phone, too.
The device, which the Dolphins first began distributing at home games last season, contains a 4.3-inch display and provides 10 channels through which fans can individually select from a range of options, including audio programming and numerous television camera angles of the game, live updates and highlights of other games, fantasy team alerts, on-demand video, text-message boards, and concessionaires.
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The proposals to be brought forward would address the fact the police - who can already tell when, where and who made a mobile phone call or sent a text message - cannot always trace the origin of an email, a message sent via instant messaging or a phone call made over the internet.
Clicking through a few buttons reveals the content of a text message--essentially an e-mail sent to the phone.
So in 2009, Ravindran and three classmates dropped out of college to focus on bridging this information gap through the development of a text message-based search engine.
Speaking of calls, your options when receiving one are to to pick up, hang up, or reject with a text message -- with a slide-up menu offering you the most common apologetic missives to send out.
Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
From text message voting-day alerts to the My Obama Weblogs, the candidate used technology to spread his message in new ways.
The scariest part: 20 percent of teens and 10 percent of parents admit that they have extended, multi-message text conversations while driving.
While many of these will be the old-fashioned text message, Forrester predicts that new message types that let people include images and sounds will also gather fans.
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.
It sends shoppers who have opted in the service real-time deals via text message as they enter the shopping center no apps, check-in or printed coupons necessary.
Finally, when such inconsistencies arise, the system alerts the authorities directly, by e-mail or text message.
After that time period of inactivity, Google will send out a text message and e-mail the secondary address you provide.
All questions and answers are transmitted by text message between mobile-phone users and a remote server that concocts imaginary dates.
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Adults know that a careless e-mail, text message, tweet or photo posting can cost someone not only their reputation, but also their career.
Consumers like to interact with companies through the contact channel of their choice, be it over the phone or text message or e-mail.
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