Text Messaging
« Previous EntriesWhy Text Messaging May Be on the Way Out
Monday, July 5th, 2010I’m sure the very thought of text messaging entering the final stages in its life is a bit too much to fathom right now, considering Gartner believes 2 trillion messages will be sent this year and most analysts think text messaging will grow rapidly, but I’m not so quick to jump on the bandwagon. The [...]
Self-Destructing Self-Messages Unveiled
Thursday, March 25th, 2010A British-based company has developed software for telephones that deletes SMS messages about 40 seconds after they have been read. Staellium UK told CNN that thousands of users had downloaded the software to their phones since it launched the “StealthText” technology Sunday. It says the service is a world first. Described by the company as [...]
Business Jumps on Text-Messaging Wave
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Download this PDF file Wireless carriers see a huge jump in digital notes as cellphone use increases. Once the territory of teenagers, text messaging is becomine a major means of communication and a tool used by business. The reason is that users are opting to stay in touch with short digital notes rather than lengthy [...]
How to E-Mail Text Messages to Any Phone
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Do you feel like your cell phone’s text message bill is getting higher every month? You’re not alone. By some accounts, text messages cost more per megabyte to send than do messages from outer space to Earth. But you can email and Instant Message texts to phones for free. Here’s how. View the original here.
Text Messaging Could Hurt Ability to Read Nonverbal Cues
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Junior marketing and entrepreneurial management major Travis Kettle finds texting to be distracting, especially when he’s studying. “The constant text messaging is taking your mind off what you’re doing,” he said. Yet it’s so simple, it’s difficult to give up. “It’s kind of a chore nowadays to call people,” Kettle said. “Texting lets you send [...]
Why Text Messages Are Limited to 160 Characters
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillsbrand (left) sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two [...]
Quick! Tell Us What KUTGW Means
Thursday, October 1st, 2009One reason for the surge in texting abbreviations—more than 2,000 and counting, according to NetLingo—is the boom in social-media sites like Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters. Text messages, too, are limited in length, so users have developed an alphabet soup of shorthand abbreviations to save time, and their thumbs. View the original [...]
Texting May Be Taking a Toll
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their thumbs hurt. Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon [...]
Abbrvatd Txt Msg Too lng to Undrstnd, Says Stdy
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Going through a heavily abbreviated SMS can take twice as long time and only saves the sender a few seconds of typing, says a new research. The study led by University of Tasmania psychology lecturer Dr Nenagh Kemp has shown that many common abbreviations were hard to be deciphered or was misinterpreted. View the original [...]
Speak and See
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Now you can send a friend or coworker a text message without typing. If you have a blackberry, there is an application that allows you to talk to your phone,and it understands you. Just speak, verify, and send. View the original here.
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