The only way to send a text message was to write a letter and slap a stamp on it.
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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Naturally then, Facebook would want people to be able to click to send a text message or phone call without leaving to a rival service.
Esendex, a mobile messaging service provider based in Nottingham, has been creating the means for clients to send a text message for more than eleven years.
The claim is that the telecoms companies charge us more per unit of data to send a text message next door than it costs to send a message to Mars.
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The Web admin can decide to send a text message back to the sender to verify the information, send out a blast alert to large numbers of people or post the information onto a Web page with location information from Google Maps (or do all three).
These typically do not charge for app-to-app calls, but do require the user to buy credit if they want to call or send a text to a standard mobile or landline number.
These include writing down their medication on a calendar or getting someone to send them a text message to remind them, he added.
You cannot use a speech-driven device to make a note while talking on the phone, for example, or to send a surreptitious text message during a boring meeting.
For example, you can create an out-of-office message that includes a link to an online form that a person can use to override your filter system and send a text message to your phone.
There are artificial tornadoes in glass tubes, a creepy video art installation, a cooperative Pac-Man game, and a place to send text messages to fish.
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By knowing the size and shape of their fields, farmers can then use correct amounts of fertilizer and plan for future soil improvements. eDairy in Sri Lanka also allows farmers to send text messages to a network of veterinarians and extension workers requesting services.
Obama reached a compromise with his security detail, Gibbs said, that will allow him to send text messages to his senior staff and a small group of close friends.
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Or what if you could send a text message to everyone in your neighborhood?
The system can send a text message to a driver when the car is charged and ready to drive.
People can send text messages to a number provided on QWhere.org, and will be replied with relevant resources in the community.
People with cell phones can actually use the phone and a new system to send emergency text messages just recently mandated by Congress.
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"We'll ensure we keep any maintenance work to a minimum which will help customers send and receive text and picture messages via their mobiles, " a spokesman for O2 said.
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When calls come in, a large image representing the caller appears on the screen along with options to drag an on-screen icon to ignore, answer, or send a text reply.
To date SMS GupShup has signed up 30 million users and now buys network capacity to send roughly 1 billion text messages a month, as much as 8% of the SMS text traffic in India.
According to Sprint, a person can send about 30-50 text messages in the 180 seconds it takes, on average, to hold a voice call.
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Here, along with your username and password, you can set your Google account to ask you for a six-digit code that Google will send via text message to your phone.
The introduction of Me2U, a service that allows callers to use text-messaging to send airtime credit to other mobiles, provided a further boost.
"People don't realize a lot of times when they're on their cell phones how loud it is, and it distracts you from what you're doing, " said McEwen, who said she's even seen people trip on a treadmill while trying to send text messages.
Kids love to talk, they love to send text messages and to download custom ring tones, and they put a high premium on having the newest and most stylish devices.
Beyond merely guarding the entrances to your house, he shows how the software can keep a detailed log or send text message alerts every time any door in the house is opened, to monitor practically every activity in the house.
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Still other perpetrators copy apps and inject them with malicious software that causes a victim's phone to automatically send costly text messages.
Just say "Tell John where I am, " and Dragon will send John a text with a link to your location on a map.
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Although most airlines limit this to send and receive text messages, you still have a full GSM connection with your phone, tablet, or laptop.
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As Kaspersky found out, it wasn't just scamware, but a trojan: the title would swipe the contacts after asking permission, send them to a remote server behind the scenes and text spam the daylights out of any phone number in that list.
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