When I go to bed and I'm supposed to be asleep, I sometimes talk to friends online or text them but it doesn't really affect my sleep because I like to wake up early.
Businesses can now use their existing landline numbers to field customer inquiries, schedule appointments, send out reminders, take orders and invite their customers to text them back-the way the vast majority of consumers prefer to communicate.
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These include writing down their medication on a calendar or getting someone to send them a text message to remind them, he added.
Now we watch in horrified fascination as a speaker plods through every word on slide after slide with 20 lines or more of text on them.
All subscribers have been sent a free text telling them the service had been suspended and they are being advised to check the council's school closures website for up-to-date information.
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Supporters of Barack Obama have been e-mailing and text-messaging them about what not to wear.
Then email or text alerts tell them their prescription is ready, eliminating the need to wait near the prescription counter.
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Tish wanted to thank GT for his text message to them.
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Marked by a patently obvious blue button, the new addition serves up relevant prior art results by using key phrases from a patent's text and putting them together in a search query.
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Ms McManus said Kieran had gone to work as normal on Saturday night but as her family were getting ready for bed, they received a text message telling them that he had been shot and was being treated by paramedics.
Compare that to a site like Newser.com, that shamelessly rewrites and condenses the content of entire stories, or to the many popular blogs that will lift several paragraphs of text and run them as block quotes, making a click-through redundant.
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For his first solo effort as both librettist and composer, the Brooklyn-based artist (who also performs as Pierre in "Natasha"), took pages from Tolstoy's text and whittled them down, cutting characters, adding lines, and composing for an orchestra that includes clarinet, glockenspiel, cello and guitar.
When your driving speed is above 25MPH, the service (which can be disabled if you prefer) sends an automatic SMS response to anyone who calls you or sends a text, letting them know you'll get in touch with them as soon as you've finished your journey.
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Nine percent respond to at least one text every time they drive, while 13 percent of them read a text or email while driving.
"We recognize the huge community of people that text, especially our tech-savvy customer base, and we're thrilled that we can finally enable them to text our existing business number to book a table, place an order, or simply ask a general question that can easily be answered in short form, " said Anna Weinberg, owner and operator of Marlowe.
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You can group your friends, pin them to your Start screen to get live updates and easily text, email and IM them all at once.
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Manis says charities can insert them into text messages to provide more information to donors and potential donors.
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It also aims to increase the options for young people wishing to contact them by text or via online services.
We still see them often, and yes, we continue to parent them, whether it's having Skype discussions, chatting with them via text messages or phone calls.
Before Twitter came along, who would have thought 200 million people would be interested in a product that basically let them put text messages on the internet?
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For friends who are not on Facebook, the app will send them a text message, so people do not have to decide which is the best way to reach someone.
M-Farm, a service that gives farmers access to market prices for the cost of a text message and allows them to group together to buy and sell products, has won several supporters and awards.
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Using a Bluetooth connection, it syncs with phones and alerts users when they receive text messages, reads them out loud and allows users to respond with a selection of standard pre-written messages without taking their hands off the wheel.
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Other resolutions adopted unanimously by the Assembly dealt with special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009, among them a text dealing with the budget of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559 (2004), on the withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, whose narrative and logical framework had been newly revised.
It also appears that the carrier has been sending text messages to customers warning them not to upgrade.
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The idea is to allow gamers to chat with anyone using Microsoft's instant messaging products--in addition to allowing them to blast text messages to other gamers.
S., a leading innovator in optical character recognition (OCR)software, is excited to announce the availability of their IRISNotes 2 lineup, digital pens that capture handwritten notes and convert them into edible text on a computer.
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Or maybe drivers needed something to keep them awake while sending text messages and reading emails.
Second, interview other experts who disagree but bury them deep in the text while obfuscating their disagreement.
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