BlackBerry Messenger, iMessenger and Gchat are all slowly taking texting's place, but we still text one another.
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Even a decade or so ago, most phones had dull gray screens, clamshell designs or tiny keypads that made you hit a button over and over to text one letter of the alphabet.
Back in 1998, I remember marveling at high school students choosing to text one another rather than make phone calls, updating their friends with their "status" and even taking pictures with their mobile phones.
It might have been some young people studying, about to go into the monastery, and I think from the text one could definitely get that sense, because so much of the text deals with the things that they are about to give up - you know, lust and drinking and all the really incredibly good things in life that they're about to give up.
One method is to feed the zipper some text in one language, then switch the input to a different language.
Compared to text, one pays a great penalty to absorb information by way of video.
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Three complainants, two of whom received the first text and one who received the second, challenged whether they were misleading and could be substantiated.
Google said last week that its Google Translate service -- which changes text from one language to another -- handles as much translation work in a day as human translators could manage in a year.
"I will always remember this day and I would like to thank my father because I owe everything to him, " added Dettori, who was ribbed by his fellow riders throughout the week and received one text message late at night from one of them which read simply 'tick tock, tick tock'.
According to one text, their feet resembled horses' hooves, and they sounded like birds.
But text is just one small piece of how our world has been changed by technology.
The text here is one of many versions of the speech Reagan delivered over the years.
One text from "As You Like It" has tempted hundreds of different composers.
Incompatibilities between networks led to a long delay in enabling text messaging from one network to another.
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In a school with 406 children, that means that almost 13 children have to share one text book.
In one text message, however, Rahman said he was heading to Friday prayers.
To the amazement of safety officials, Freudenberg evidently sent several text messages with one hand while flying the helicopter with the other.
Nine percent respond to at least one text every time they drive, while 13 percent of them read a text or email while driving.
Possession of a mobile or cell phone plus an airtime package does not simply allow you to send a text message to one person.
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Users are more likely to calm down and actually share their concern when they can navigate easily and type their input into just one text box.
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Mr Paterson is further accused of sending threatening text messages to one of the women, threatening her mother with a baseball bat and failing to appear in court.
Here I am, at my computer, typing letters one by one into a plain text document, rolling along through one of the strangest posts I've ever penned for this site.
TVEyes used BBN's speech-to-text tools as one of its sources of transcripts for tveyes.com, podscope.com and the company's enterprise offerings (it has several companies from which it aggregates transcripts and compares them).
Facebook's service is designed to combine traditional email, instant message and cellphone text messages into one system, routing messages to whichever service is best for each person, and keeping an archive of it all.
Half the time, cheating partners are found out through indiscreet mobile phone text messages, one in five are betrayed by emails, and only one out of 10 are given away by the traditional, anonymous letter.
In advance of the conference ask every speaker and panelist to send you two tips, under 100 words each, with a title that is five words or less, with apt embedded links in the text, a one line bio with up to three links and an image to go with the tips and a head and shoulders photo of the contributor.
There are no exact figures on how many of the 8.7 million deaf or hard of hearing people in the UK use mobiles and text messaging, but their increasing adoption of this technology is certainly contributing to the more than one billion text messages a month now being sent in Britain.
Writing a plain text document like this one isn't the same as creating a large, nuanced spreadsheet.
When he selected one, the text would instantly appear on the book's pages.
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