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MetroPCS ends text-messaging limits
March 25, 2003
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Verizon Communications
911 dials IP technology
January 13, 2006
Experts say Net technology could help build hardier emergency communications network, if someone would foot the bill.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hotmail goes mobile in India
January 13, 2005
Microsoft strikes deal with Indian cell firms to deliver Hotmail and MSN Messenger over SMS.
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Microsoft Corp.
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In-flight texts to take off in the U.S.?
April 25, 2007
JetBlue founder considers text service, but like other airline execs, doesn't like onboard use of cell phones for calls.
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Cell phone becomes new town crier
April 20, 2007
Universities and cities are seeing how these staples of 21st century society can be turned into tools for keeping people informed and protected.
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Exiled journalists circumvent censors by text messaging
February 17, 2007
Broadcasters forced out of Zimbabwe find that their shortwave programs are blocked but stories sent via text message get through.
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Zimbabwe
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journalist
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Paris
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radio
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(Almost) free 411 on cell phones
November 5, 2004
Customers will just have to pay their carriers a few pennies for each text-message directory-assistance query.
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LookSmart Ltd.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Google Inc.
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message
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database
AOL takes AIM and shoots for new features
November 22, 2005
America Online unveils Triton, an instant-messaging service with SMS mobile text messaging, voice and video chat.
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Plaxo Inc.
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America Online Inc.
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Time Warner Inc.
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IM
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video
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Microsoft Windows
More Nextel phones get ready for business
May 23, 2005
The operator, merging with Sprint, sharpens up its mobile data offerings to defend from heavy competition.
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push technology
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BellSouth Corp.
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Sprint Nextel
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cell phone
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AT&T Corp.
Ring tones, phone games to rake it in
August 19, 2004
Revenue from wireless data services could reach $189 billion in 2009, according to a new report.
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This revolution will be text-messaged
December 17, 2007
Filipinos have been masters of using text messages to rally political protesters. So what happened during last month's failed coup d'etat?Photos: Philippines as texting central
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Yahoo brings party planning to your cell phone
November 30, 2006
Marketed to the Helio and Boost crowd, the "Mixd" social-networking service is kind of like cattle herding for the techno-socialite.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Researchers: Metcalfe's Law overshoots the mark
March 15, 2005
Rule that encouraged madcap expansion in the dot-com era turns out to have been, um, way too generous, scientists argue.
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co-founder
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merger
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Time Warner Inc.
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rule
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IM
U.S. cell phone firms allow cross-carrier photo swaps
March 16, 2005
Cingular and Verizon Wireless are accepting photo mails from each other's subscribers in hopes of juicing cell phone use.
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Verizon Wireless
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Cingular Wireless
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BellSouth Corp.
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photograph
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telephone company
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U.S.
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handset
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agreement
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camera
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AT&T Corp.
Getting teens beyond textin'
October 29, 2004
Teenagers are fiends for sending text messages from their phones. Virgin Mobile wants them to feast on other services as well.
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teen
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Sprint Nextel
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billing
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U.S.
Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead
July 18, 2007
The future of e-mail might be found on the pages of MySpace and Facebook, if teen habits are any indicator.
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Peterson death sentence relayed via messaging
December 14, 2004
No-cameras rule can't dampen media circus, as Web sites offer live short text messages from inside the court.
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General Electric Co.
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California
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