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7 trillion SMS messages to be sent in 2011

December 30, 2010 - 4:09am | Analytics | News

Over 7 trillion SMS messages will be sent in 2011 according to the latest report by ABI Research released this week. The study on Mobile Messaging Services covers worldwide usage from about 4.2 billion mobile subscriptions. ABI notes that customers are increasingly treating SMS as something of a commodity which is explained by falling delivery costs and high competition.

ABI Research | mobile phone | SMS | text message

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Blind people can read SMS messages with new Nokia application

September 18, 2009 - 7:34am | News | Other themes

Nokia has introduced a special application for mobile phones that allows blind people to read text messages on their mobile devices. The application requires the user’s phone to have a vibration mode as it turns the characters of a text message into Braille.

The Braille Reader turns on immediately after the message is received. But the user needs to hold their finger onto the screen before the application will start reading the SMS out letter by letter in Braille. When the user takes their finger off the screen the reading pauses.

The application was developed by Nokia in association with Tampere University in Finland and the Finnish Federation of Visual Impairment.

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Pay Other People via a text message? Now CashEdge lets do this

July 6, 2009 - 5:21am | News | Payment systems

CashEdge Inc is now offering a new service, POPmoney that means “Pay Other People”, providing online banking services for financial institutions that is to let users send money directly via a text message or email. In future the service is to reduce the needs to stop at ATMs or write checks when owing money.

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Verizon and AT&T think that authorities’ view on text message prices is ignorant

June 17, 2009 - 5:03am | Law aspects | News

U.S. wireless carriers Verizon Communications and AT&T declined allegations that their prices for text messages were set in breach of the anti-trust regulation. Sen. Herb Kohl, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, said he was concerned that the four largest cell phone companies doubled their text message rates from 10 cents in 2006 to 20 cents in 2008.

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Metavante and Monitise Americas cooperate for Text Message Banking service

February 26, 2009 - 5:24am | News | Other themes

Metavante, a provider of integrated payments solutions, including bill pay, prepaid and the NYCE Network, with its mobile financial services creating a clear line of sight to mobile payments and commerce, and Monitise Americas, well-known as a provider of mobile money services using secure applications that consumers download to their cell phones, teamed to launch a new message banking service.

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