Or using Skype to send text messages to mobile devices anywhere in the world?
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Millions of people now use their mobile phones to send text messages, take pictures and play games.
Eventually, Aircell plans to support cellular data service, enabling users to send text messages from their phones.
Moreover, iCloud enables those Apple users who upgrade to iOS5 to send text messages within the Apple app.
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That allowed him to send text messages, bypassing the local media which are cosily tied to the established parties.
One remaining option may be to send text messages via satellite phones.
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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Sites like mint.com can be set up to send text messages to your phone if you start spending more than your target in a particular area.
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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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.
Never mind that the ballots were cast for contestants in a televised singing competition, and that only those with the means to send text messages by mobile phone could take part.
When the young members of Generation-i use their phones to send text messages, the small keyboards make typing awkward and abbreviations even more important: "b4n" (bye for now), "cu" (see you).
When an app wants access to data or functions on your phone, such as your contacts list or the ability to send text messages, it can signal potential security or malware risks.
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"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.
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.
While a high-speed wireless connection is a nice plus for users of typical mobile phones, it promises to do wonders for widescreen iPhones, which combine the ability to play movies and surf the Web with features found on more traditional mobile phones, like the ability to send text messages.
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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This is something they are already seeing with regard to SMS revenues with the advent of mobile messaging services like WhatsApp, Pinger, and GroupMe, which use the Internet to send free text messages.
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Politicians wanting to send bulk campaign text messages have to wait at least 48 hours before dispatch in order for their mobile service operators to vet the content and reject anything they believe could be inciting.
The researchers also found that people used text messaging to switch between "identities", such as men who were out with their friends preferring to send their partners text messages rather than talking to them.
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As well as being able to send and receive text messages, subscribers with camera phones can also swap photos.
Still other perpetrators copy apps and inject them with malicious software that causes a victim's phone to automatically send costly text messages.
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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Text4Baby, an American campaign to send medical advice to pregnant mothers via text messages, was inspired by the work of Voxiva, an American firm, in Peru and Rwanda.
It allows users to send instant audio, text and photo messages to friends (individual or groups).
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.
In its latest operating system update, Apple introduced iMessage, which allows iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to send each other unlimited text messages using Wi-Fi or 3G connections (in other words, in the worst case arbitraging the data plan and in the best, using an open backhaul connection for free).
But only in men's college basketball can coaches send text messages to recruits.
Using Spool, Twine can be set up to send emails, tweets or text messages depending on the inputs from its sensors.
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