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True cost of SMS messages, a bigger rip off than printer ink?
There was a huge furore over the cost of printer ink which ran into $700 per liter and was more expensive than blood and top notch booze. Eventually you pay more for two ink cartridges than a new printer. A bigger rip off than printer ink is text messaging something which all of us do…
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“Merry Christmas” Neil Papworth’s typed the first text message 15 years ago, starting a ‘cultural phenomenon’
Like “Mr. Watson, come here,” (the first words spoken over the telephone) does not sound exciting, “Merry Christmas” sounds complacent for the first text message in the world to be sent to a cellphone. Neil Papworth was the man who did the deed and admits that “it struck him as fittingly festive”, at that time.…
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Verizon Wireless Customers sent/receive 10 Billion SMSs this June
Now we know why you got that sore thumb, you’ve been texting just like those Verizon Wireless Customers, who sent/received more than 10 billion text messages in June 2007. The users also sent and received more than 200 million multimedia messages (MMS), which include picture and video messages in June. This has resulted in a…
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+336+ SMS Mirror replaces the Magic Mirror
Snow White’s evil wicked mother just got another arsenal on her side; she’s swapped the Magic Mirror with the ultra-mod one designed by Robert Stadler (of the French design group Radi Designers). The only hitch is that this one’s no talking mirror; it is a mirror that receives the SMS messages sent from her wizarding…
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1 million text messages halt construction of Chinese Chemical Plant
They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, well in this case it seems the text message is the clear winner. People of the southeastern port of Xiamen sent more than 1 million mobile phone text messages protesting against the $1.4 billion facility being built by Tenglong Aromatic PX (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. The…
