Ppl! Txting is 20 yrs old! Thats soo GR8!
Depending on your perspective, you might thank or blame Matti Makkonen, the pioneer of texting, for how it changed human communication.
Just don't shoot the first texter.
Neil Papworth is the British-born engineer who actually sent the first text message, 20 years ago today. Typed out on a PC, it was sent to a Richard Jarvis of Vodafone and read: Merry Christmas. … Read more
News Corp. axes The Daily.
The Daily, which was an ambitious tablet-only news publication backed by News Corp., is shutting its doors December 15. Launched back in February 2011, The Daily was an interactive newspaper stylized for consumption on the iPad. Best of all, a year's subscription went for only $40 and offered a wide variety of sections. While there will be no more issues of The Daily, its brand will live on other channels within News Corp.
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the first text message. On December 3, 1992, SMS pioneer Matti Makkonen successfully sent … Read more
TxtN trns 20 2day. Hw willya celebr8?
The so-called father of SMS commemorated the occasion via a rare interview that appropriately enough was conducted via text messages.
Chatting with the BBC yesterday, Matti Makkonen took credit for conceiving and fleshing out SMS, or short message service. But he lived up to his title as its "reluctant father" by making it clear that others actually developed the technology.
"I did not consider sms as personal achievement but as result of joint effort to collect ideas and write the specifications of the services based on them," he told the BBC.… Read more
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