Supporters of Barack Obama have been e-mailing and text-messaging them about what not to wear.
Just as text-messaging has become extremely popular, they expect MMS to catch on quickly.
In Netherlands, the unusually high pricing of text-messaging services drove strong early adoption of WhatsApp messaging service.
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Vittorio Colao, Vodafone's CEO, said his company would restore text-messaging services in Egypt when it was authorized.
The messages are sent as data packets across the internet, rather than being routed through operators' text-messaging infrastructure.
In Spain, the brutal financial crisis may be one major factor driving consumers to adopt cheaper alternatives for text-messaging.
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It appers that European consumers may be accelerating their move away from text-messaging, offsetting the non-SMS data revenue growth.
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Dropping the text-messaging package is one of the easiest ways to cut down the mobile bill economic conditions deteriorate.
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It is quite possible that the year 2012 is when consumer flight from traditional text-messaging turns into a stampede.
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We disparaged modern and incomplete forms: gormless and garbled jargon, graffiti, advertising, text-messaging.
They're also offering stage-side access to people who signed up for text-messaging alerts.
This supports the theory that iPhone is particularly effective at undermining traditional text-messaging.
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Its only product was a free voice- and text-messaging service for cellphone users.
And in Finland, the unusually low number of iPhone owners may have extended the growth of traditional text-messaging in 2011.
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Donations may incur text-messaging fees or other data charges, depending on carrier.
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One explanation is that text-messaging revenue of Telefonica crashed during the quarter.
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Its Globe Telecom affiliate pioneered in text-messaging and became the cellphone leader.
The Egyptian text-messaging shutdown is the latest example of the tension between Western technology and telecom giants and some governments in emerging markets.
In October, she launched an ambitious text-messaging system, which immediately drew fire from the Democratic National Committee, to blast mobile updates to supporters.
The introduction of Me2U, a service that allows callers to use text-messaging to send airtime credit to other mobiles, provided a further boost.
Text-messaging volumes in countries like Spain and Netherlands have started falling steeply, while volumes continued rising during 2011 in countries like France and Finland.
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Employers are also starting to experiment with the next frontiers of mobile recruiting: using QR codes and text-messaging, two capabilities that are specifically geared to smartphones.
If you are used to touch-typing on a full-sized keyboard, you'll find it cramped, but it is roomy enough for a generation weaned on text-messaging via cell phone.
You might remember Zipwhip from its SMS-enabled espresso machine, but the outfit's hoping a new feature added to its cloud-based text-messaging platform will catch your attention this time around.
In addition to the bill in the Missouri legislature, other school boards, teacher unions and parent-teacher associations across the country are drafting policies and issuing advisements about which online or text-messaging relationships are acceptable.
The victim testified that she was first taken to see Mr. Weberman in 2007 after she was caught text-messaging a boy, wearing skirts that weren't long enough and otherwise being singled out at her school.
Then there is digital technology: instead of arriving on the dot, you can send a text message apologising for being late (with nearly 25 billion messages sent in 2005, Germany is one of Europe's text-messaging champions).
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Charles Wang is trying to get subscribers addicted to his free text-messaging service, PingCo, so that he can start signing them up for premium services such as backing up address books, selling astrological charts and providing weather updates.
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