We've seen SMS come a long way in the last 10 years. What once was a phenom largely used in Europe's ubiquitous GSM systems has become a global sensation used from small kids to aging grandparents. Raking up billions of text messages a month.
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May 28th 2006 3:50PM Citing growth rates of the respective services, telecom consulting firm Ovum is predicting that mobile instant messaging will replace SMS as the de facto text messaging solution some time in the next five years.
This has operators...
Jan 6th 2007 8:40PM We wondered how long it would be before other carriers followed the price-jacking ways of Cingular / Sprint-Nextel and decided to raise their own SMS rates, and now it appears Verizon won't be the low guy on the totem pole for too much longer. Word..
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Mar 21st 2007 7:46PM We're ready to start buying movie tickets, cab fare and soda pop using text messages 'round here, but we're not the only ones. There are 10 million mobile phone subscribers in Belgium that'll have the power to be buying everything from that same taxi.
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Apr 3rd 2007 7:35AM Cambodia's National Election Committee had mobile providers bump their SMS services offline over the weekend to impose a government sanctioned "Censorship and State Control tranquility period.
" This SMS blackout period was said to prevent voters from...
May 25th 2007 1:05AM We've got to file this new mobile virus named "Trojan-SMS.SymbOS.Viver" -- and the first such SMS Trojan for Series 60 -- under "frustrating waste of time.
" Sadly, it is most often the user at fault for downloading for granting a bit of dodgy...
Apr 19th 2007 2:05AM For us here in the States, April 17 was the deadline for filing those pesky 2006 taxes. There were probably a few million folks scrambling to get their tax filing completed online or with a mad dash to the post office. Why not pay taxes by SMS?
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