More than a billion text messages are sent in the USA every day. And, now text messaging is becoming a major force in political campaigns, as reported by CBS News.
Analysis by CBS News shows that the cost of obtaining a vote via text message is far cheaper than through other mediums. Direct mail costs $67 [...]
The tragedy at Virginia Tech has spurred numerous articles about how using text messaging for emergencies might have helped to avert or limit the catastrophe. Articles have appeared in Wireless Week, PennLive, Fox News, CBS News, George Washington University’s Daily Colonial, and KLTV in Tyler, Texas. Yet another article appeared in the Wall Street Journal [...]
Philadelphia – Text messaging to students at Virginia Tech would have been a better way to notify students of the horrors happening on campus.
The horrors of what happened in Blacksburg, Virginia on April 16 are now starting to come forward with chilling details. A great university is in mourning and a very safe city is [...]
Mishawaka, IN – Dec. 6, 2006 – Attention Notre Dame fans, can’t get to a computer or television set fast enough to get your updates on the latest blue and gold information? Well now, there’s no excuse because these updates are right in your pocket, thanks to Advanced Telecom Services, the provider of a [...]
A feature already built-in to most cellphones could be used to alert every mobile phone user in a specific region to impending disasters, such as the tsunami that devastated south east Asia on December 26th.
The combination of a tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean and the ability to broadcast text messages to every mobile [...]
NBC has announced that THE APPRENTICE will be able to sign up for exclusive txt message alerts to be sent directly to their cell phones from the candidates themselves during the show.
NBC will offer weekly APPRENTICE alerts to subscribers, giving the audience an inside track to the unfolding onscreen action. Subscribers will receive up to [...]
