Text Messaging

UK regulator Phone Pay Plus in the UK offers tips on how to deal with unsolicited text messages. This video will surely be quite funny in another 20 years.

When it comes to college sports, fans, students, and alumni just can’t get enough. Ever talk to an Alabama football fan or a Kentucky basketball fan? You get the drift.
Sports Info Text, a text message marketing service from 84444.com, is providing text message marketing solutions to many small and large university sports teams [...]

Checkatrade.com, an online business information provider based in the United Kingdom, uses text messaging to contact their members.
Checkatrade was established in 1998 by local businessman Kevin Byrne after a tornado damaged hundreds of buildings in Selsey, West Sussex. When homes were rebuilt after the storm, it was difficult for homeowners to distinguish between the genuine [...]

My daughter just recently turned 18-years-old.  She’s as old as the text message.  Given the number of text messages on her cell phone bill, she literally has grown up with texting.  And, embraced it like ex-Phillies’ outfielder Jayson Werth.
Though there are several claims to being the first to text, wireless engineer Brennan Hayden sent what [...]

By Dr Pieter Streicher, MD of BulkSMS.com
Today, access to high-tech communications is accepted as integral to modern life. When the ability to communicate using a digital communication channel such as SMS is banned in a country for political reasons, people inside and outside that country take umbrage to the denial of services. Yet, these attempts [...]

What Americans do with their phones while going to the bathroom.

Talk — 70%
Text Message — 62%
Email — 30%
Play Games — 27%
Surf Net — 19%

The best news about this study is that the government didn’t pay for it so your tax dollars were not used for this earth shattering statistical analysis.  I thought you would sleep [...]

More than 40 percent of all Twitter posts now originate via mobile phone, up from 25 percent a year ago, according to Dick Costolo during an interview at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,
Twitter now boasts more than 175 million registered users worldwide. Users have sent 25 billion tweets over the past 12 [...]

Check out this creative and pretty funny infographic on cell phone etiquette. Kind of breaks down cell phone etiquette from a elementary school, textbook graphic level. Interesting and pretty funny at the same time.
Props to Communications Electronics, a cell phone store franchise across Maryland, Delaware, and DC for putting this together.

Cell Phone Etiquette Graphic

You soon may be able to send a text message to 911.  And, that certainly makes sense given how young adults and teens can seemingly send a text message with their cell phone firmly entrenched in a pocket. 
“The technological limitations of 9-1-1 can have tragic, real-world consequences,” the FCC said in a press release. “During [...]

Studies from the European Union five countries (United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Italy) show the following results from these five countries in regards to mobile marketing.
Interestingly, over 90% of cell phone users in the United Kingdom have sent a text message to another user.