Text messaging on the decline.
Around the world, text-message traffic has been declining because Internet-powered alternatives are becoming so widely used. American cell carriers have fought off the decline until now.
Continue reading… “Text message use falls in the U.S. for first time ever”
Modern mobile phones come with a built-in dictionary which enables them to predict what word a user wants from only a few key presses.
Predictive text is a modern marvel of the mobile phone industry. Predictive text has, no doubt, made it quicker and easier to communicate with those around us. However, the very tool designed to help bring us closer together appears to be driving a wedge between some mobile phone users and their nearest and dearest.
Continue reading… “When predictive text errors end relationships”
24 percent said they had ever been “harassed” by texting. That was up from about 14 percent in a survey of the same kids the year before.
More and more kids in the U.S. say they have been picked on via text messaging, while there has been little change in online harassment, researchers reported Monday.
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“Mobile postage is a useful supplement for those in need of a stamp regardless of place and time”
Two European countries are now offering an alternative to the ubiquitous postage stamp: sending the post office a text message.
Continue reading… “Text Messages Will Replace Postage Stamps in Sweden and Denmark”