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Set up your own text-messaging service for free.
You don’t have to be a big company to set up a text-message auto-response system. With TextMarks, you can set up a quick-and-dirty text message information system for free. It’s a great way to stay in...
View ArticleSkype Cuts SMS Fees In Half
As you may know, if you use Skype, you can send SMS text messages to your friends’ cell phones. Skype charges a small amount per message (less than your cell phone provider does) and makes it easy to...
View ArticleText messaging: How many times a day do you do it?
Americans send about 20 billion text messages per month, according to a cell phone industry group that has apparently counted them all. Sound like a lot? That’s only 85 messages per month per cell...
View ArticleSend an SMS to Space
Hello! R U out there? Here’s your chance to make first contact with an alien life form, by sending a 160-character text message into outer space. An Australian science magazine, COSMOS, is working with...
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In Haiti, 4636 Shortcode Can Help Save Lives
If you are in Haiti and need to report an emergency situation, send a text message to the shortcode 4636. This works with any SMS-capable cellphone on the DigiCel network. Messages sent to that code...
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Keep Your Texts From Getting You Into Trouble With TigerText
Tiger Woods recently got into trouble partly because his wife, Elin Nordegren, discovered incriminating voicemails and text messages on his phone, news reports allege. He might not have had that...
View ArticleText Messaging to Groups of People With Betwext
Texting works best when you’re sending messages to one person at a time. But what if you want to use SMS to communicate with a group of people? It’s not easy. Most phones don’t make it easy to send...
View ArticleCricket Wireless
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about how texting works with Cricket Wireless. Well, here you go! If you’ve got a Cricket phone, here’s what you need to know about SMS. Maximum message length:...
View ArticleTracFone
TracFone offers inexpensive, prepaid cellular service. And yes, they do support text messaging! Maximum message length: 160 characters What happens to longer messages: Unknown Cost per message: Unknown...
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3 out of 5 people on earth use SMS texting.
According to this amazing infographic from MBAOnline, 4.2 billion people worldwide have phones that support texting. That means that SMS reaches many times more people than the internet — and it’s...
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Press 1 to say ‘Happy Birthday’ on Facebook via SMS
If you’ve enabled SMS notifications in Facebook, the social network rolled out a new feature this week. It will send you a text message when one of your friends’ birthdays rolls around. To wish them a...
View ArticleLots of people still use Twitter via SMS — even without a Twitter account
Did you know you don’t even need a Twitter account to follow someone on Twitter? That’s right: All you need is a phone and you can receive SMS updates from any Twitter account. That can be a handy way...
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Teens still prefer SMS
Source: Business Insider You might think teens are obsessed with messaging apps like Kik, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger — and you’d be right — but SMS text messaging still rules. According to a...
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