Tagged: Text Messaging & News
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Openmind app brings SMS text messaging to Android tablet computers News
02.04.2013 Dublin software company Openmind, whose technology transmits more than 1bn SMS messages a day across 120 operator networks, has brought out its first consumer-facing app...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Happy bday 2U: SMS turns 20 News
03.12.2012 Today marks 20 years since the birth of short message service, or SMS as we better know it. With a simple “Merry Christmas” sent on 3 December 1992, software programmer Neil...Categories: Communications, Mobile -
Pizza chain Papa John’s facing US$250m lawsuit for spam messaging News
14.11.2012 The US pizza chain Papa John’s is facing a US$250m lawsuit in the US after allegedly bombarding its customers with some 500,000 spam text messages to advertise pizza products...Categories: Mobile, Consumer Tech -
Spot the International Space Station with new NASA service News
03.11.2012 US space agency NASA has announced a new service to help earthlings spot the International Space Station when it is overhead. -
O2 Media introduces new text and email messaging service for SMEs News
25.10.2012 O2 Media, a division of Telefónica Ireland that specialises in mobile marketing, has launched Communicate, a new service for small to medium-sized businesses to create, send and... -
Text talk: Are abbreviated smartphone messages proof we’re linguistically doomed? (infographic) News
22.10.2012 Text talk – OMG, it’s all over our mobile phones and social media sites. While it’s handy when trying to keep communiqués to 140 characters or less, is it beating traditional... -
The digital emoticon turns 30 :-) News
19.09.2012 The digital emoticon, the representation of a facial expression made by using letters and punctuation marks – and read sideways – turns 30 today. -
Collins Online English Dictionary updates with tech terms bashtag, lollage – and Facebook News
12.09.2012 More than 80 words – many of them pertaining to the latest in tech – are now included in the Collins Online English Dictionary. -
Restaurant offers discount to patrons who won’t use mobile phones at tables News
17.08.2012 Patrons are eating up a Los Angeles, California, restaurant’s offer of a 5pc discount on their bills if they check their mobile phones at the door. -
Australian police investigate text and email death threat scam News
24.07.2012 The scale of an email and text messaging scam has surprised police in Australia, after thousands of people received a message demanding they pay up AUS$5,000 or be killed. -
'Intexticated' - teens and adults texting behind the wheel (infographic) News
26.06.2012 Driving while text messaging makes a crash 23 times more likely to take place, reveals a new infographic that examines the subject of teens and adults texting behind the wheel. -
Weekend news roundup: skepticism about the business model of social News
05.06.2012 In our review of some of the top tech stories in the weekend newspapers, Facebook's hollow IPO performance has left investors more unconvinced than ever about the business model... -
Texts From Hillary creators to discontinue posts News
12.04.2012 Just a day after meeting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the creators of the Texts From Hillary internet meme said they will no longer be updating the website. -
30pc deem mobile more helpful than significant other - survey News
14.02.2012 Nearly 30pc of mobile phone owners believe their device is more helpful to them than their significant other, suggests a survey by Asurion, a provider of wireless handset... -
Most managers dislike employees texting in sick News
13.12.2011 Workers are doing away with picking up the telephone and ringing in sick and are instead sending their bosses a text message letting them know they won't be into work. This may...Categories: Careers and Employment, Communications, In the Workplace, Jobs, Management, Social Media -
Dublin Bus rolls out real-time updates for smartphones News
26.09.2011 Dublin Bus has become the first transport provider to offer a new service developed by the National Transport Authority that will give real-time arrival times via web,... -
Smartphone users value texting as much as calling - survey News
17.08.2011 Consumers who use a smartphone as their main phone value texting as much as making and receiving calls, a YouGov survey suggests. -
Jedward to star in new Three campaign News
04.08.2011 Jedward is fronting Three’s new 'S'Up campaign, which focuses on the launch of its first to market ‘all you can eat’ data on prepay.Categories: Communications, Digital Marketing, Internet, Marketing, Media, Social Media, Telecommunications -
Social networks now used to abuse, monitor and control women News
15.06.2011 Various forms of technology are being used by abusive partners to monitor and control women, particularly younger women, such as their mobile phone calls and texts being...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Communications -
OMG, FYI and LOL make it into Oxford English Dictionary News
25.03.2011 'Initialisms' used by writers of emails, text messages and instant messages - specifically, OMG, FYI and LOL - have made it into the new online edition of the Oxford English...