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My three cents: Verizon’s text fee could cripple SMS servicesVerizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. (Techmeme) Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that’s everyone from Google to Twitter to startups lik... |
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Verizon Wireless to implement $0.03 charge for certain text messagesEither Verizon Wireless is hurting for money or there’s a guy there who’s job it is to aggravate the blogosphere. Get this: the company is set to charge a $0.03 (three cents) levy per text message sent to its customers. Now, this only affects companies and services—iPhone users... |
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Drunken Texters 'Misunderstood': StudyKids have embraced text messaging as the latest way to avoid their parents and daters have realized the texting proves an excellent means of screening (i.e., avoiding) bad dates, according to two new studies commissioned by AT&T. Market intelligence firm Synovate's Parent-Child Texti... |
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New baby clothes show you're never too young to textOver-pushy parents used to worry about getting their babies into the right college or how to have them read Proust before they got out of diapers (I exaggerate, but only slightly). Now the super-ambitious parent has a new goal: baby's first text message! Help your little one get a head start o... |
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Texting's 7 Deadly Sins1. Just say no — to texting while driving, operating machinery, crossing the street without looking or anything that jeopardizes public safety. 2. Listen to Miss Manners — never text during dinner, church, a date or a job interview. It’s just rude. (And sometimes really stupi... |
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iPhone flaw could expose your text messages to othersThere’s a flaw in the way the iPhone (with the latest firmware, mind you) handles supposedly secure text messages. Here, a secure text message is one that says something along the lines of, “You have a new text message” when it initially flashes across the screen. Insecure text... |
