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Text messaging, or texting is a colloquial term referring to the exchange of brief written messages between mobile phones, over cellular networks. While the term most often refers to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS), it has been extended to include messages containing image, video, and sound content, such as MMS messages. Individual messages are referred to as "text messages" or "texts".

The most common application of the service is person-to-person messaging, but text messages are also used to interact with automated systems, such as ordering products and services for mobile phones, or participating in contests. Advertisers and service providers use texts to notify mobile phone users about promotions, payment due dates, and other notifications that were previously sent by post or left as voicemail. There are internet services available that allow users to send text messages free of direct charge to the sender.

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Attention Demands May Explain Why Texting While Driving Is So Dangerous

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A timely study in the journal Human Factors suggests why texting while driving is riskier than talking on a cell phone or with another passenger. Human factors/ergonomics researchers at the University of Uta ...

BlackBerry users dealing with e-mail outage

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- BlackBerry users in North America faced delays in receiving e-mail on their devices Thursday.

Twitter gets more business friendly

Technology / Internet

Dec 15, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Twitter is testing a way to let businesses better use the popular microblogging service in what could be a future money-making opportunity.

Court to review employer access to worker messages

Technology / Other

Dec 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts.

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Biking 2.0: MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

Dec 16, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (13) | 6

Yesterday, Dec. 15, at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, MIT researchers debuted the Copenhagen Wheel -- a revolutionary new bicycle wheel that not only boosts power, but can keep track of friends, ...

HP researchers try to tell you who your friends are

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 17, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

Most people have scores of contacts, scattered around their mobile phone, e-mail address book and multiple social networking sites. Scientists at Hewlett-Packard can tell you which of those contacts are your closest friends.