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Pew Internet found American cell phone owners sent an average of 41.5 text messages per day last spring and 73 percent of Americans with a cell phone used the texting function. Thats a big jump from 2009, when we sent an average of 29.7 texts daily, but only a tiny increase over the 39.1 sent last year.

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Have you ever got into a text message fight? You furiously type into your phone, thumbs punctuating each letter as your third eye wrinkles with rage. But then you have to wait for whomever you are fighting with to reply with their text venom. Although you don't want to lose the momentum of your anger, it is boring just staring at your phone waiting to continue your wrath.

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Here is how the marketplace works: A buyer texts their inventory (say, 20 apples) to a list of buyers. A nearby buyer types list and gets a list of everything being sold in the area. The service uses GPS to locate buyers and sellers, so nearby produce is highlighted. When a buyer is ready to make a purchase, the seller receives a text with the buyers phone number and deletes their items from the inventory list.

Texting parenting tips that educate new parents on the hows and "whys of bonding with infants and toddlers will reach those parents that may lack access to this critical information through other resources.

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For the first time in the northeast an innovative project was launched to make new mothers more aware of health and hygiene through SMS alerts by the health department on Tuesday.

The project - Mother and Child Tracking System ( MCTS) - which is a part of the National Rural Health Mission, is directed towards welfare of mothers in Kumarghat in North Tripur district.

Under the system, a new mother as well as the expecting ones will receive health reminders on their mobile phones for regular checkups.

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Messaging still dominates non-voice mobile revenues worldwide, with the global messaging market worth $179.2bn in 2010, according to a report by Portio Research.

The fifth edition of the Mobile Messaging Futures 2011-2015 report predicts that the market will pass $200bn in 2011, and break $300bn in 2014 and $334.7bn by the end of 2015.

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A lot of text spam comes in the form of e-mail sent to your phones text-message e-mail address (yes, it has one: yourmobilenumber@txt.att.net). Thus, check the boxes for Block all text messages sent to you as email and Block all multimedia messages sent to you as email. Then click Submit.

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More than 30% of patients drop out of clinical research studies, costing the pharmaceutical industry hundreds of millions of dollars per year.  The problem is compounded by the fact that 40% of patients who remain in the studies are non-compliant with the protocol visit schedule, resulting in additional costs and delays.  These problems can be avoided if sponsors accelerate adoption of currently available texting solutions used to remind patients of their upcoming visits.

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Teens love text messages--and those texts may help them lose weight, if they are done right. A study tested out various types of weight management-themed text messages on overweight teens to see what they liked, finding that they favored positive messages but disliked thoughtful questions.

Overweight and obese teens can be a tough crowd when it comes to weight-loss interventions--many have a tough time adopting more healthful diet and exercise routines. Researchers from the University of Michigan thought tailored text messages might be a good way to help teens adopt lifestyle changes, since texts have been successful in helping others drop bad habits.

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Telemarketers cannot talk to Wisconsinites who are on the state’s do-not-call list. And a GOP lawmaker says those sellers should not be sending text messages, either.

Senate Republican Van Wangaard of Racine is drafting a bill to include text messages in the no-call law. He says many cell phone customers have to pay for those messages – and they should not be paying for unwanted sales pitches. Wangaard says his bill would bring the law into the 21st century.

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Qualcomm, which launches few consumer products, later this month will launch a pet-tracking service built using proprietary technology from its communications business.

Snaptracs, a subsidiary within Qualcomm, will launch Tagg, a pet-tracking system with GPS and wireless communication capabilities for owners to immediately track lost dogs or cats. The system includes a purpose-built tracking device that looks like a watch and clips on to existing pet collars.

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Slexting – meaning - The Definition of Slexting....is the combination of sleeping and texting. When one is sleeping and receives a text message and replies without being fully awake. Therefore the Next morning one will not remember Slexting nor have any idea what the Slext said. (via the UrbanDictionary)

FEMA announces that they have gone mobile (again) as Hurricane Irene threatens the East Coast and would like to share two new ways to get information about how to prepare for and recover from hurricanes and other disasters on your mobile devices:

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Text messaging may help quiet the hum of public cellphone conversations but it may be just as vulnerable to eavesdropping.

Canadas privacy commissioner says Canadians are not doing enough to protect their mobile communication devices, such as cellphones and tablet computers.

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Remember the days of expensive and limiting data plans? When calling out of state cost big bucks? And forget about international calls, who had that kind of money? Oh, how things have changed…

Popular programs like Skype allows for free face-to-face calls all over the world, while cell phones have conquered national long-distance fees. The new frontier: Text messaging fees.

For now, text data plans mean customers can text their thumbs to the bone for one fixed monthly cost, while for others a $10 for 1,000 texts per month plan will do just fine. Alas, even that cost is destined to disappear. Free is the operative word, and companies are lining up to provide you with their free and unlimited texting services. The days of texting plans are numbered.

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Pharma companies in the country may be asked to install an SMS-activated system to counter fake drugs in the market. Companies will need to print a unique number on medicine strips which the buyers can SMS to the customer care for verification.

Recommendations of a task force report expected on Friday will make it mandatory for drug-manufacturing companies to have the software that will respond to text messages from consumers. Unique ID and bar-coding are the other options before the task force and will be weighed against SMS alerts, task force chairman HG Koshia told ET.

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In the era of high speed communication where a mobile phone message gets delivered to its recipient within seconds, snail mail - like postcards and inland letters - is losing out on its appeal, according to data available with the communications ministry.

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Interesting commentary on the Death of the Text Message:

The smartphone boom is a mixed blessing for wireless companies. While the devices have boosted data plan sales considerably, they are threatening to kill another revenue stream dead in its tracks: text messaging.

Dozens of smartphone applications offer free text messaging services, which allow wireless customers to send and receive texts by piggybacking on their existing data plans.

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I think more and more companies are going to take control of their own messaging, rather than relying on a third party, which bodes well for PageGate.