Or what if you could send a text message to everyone in your neighborhood?
The system can send a text message to a driver when the car is charged and ready to drive.
The only way to send a text message was to write a letter and slap a stamp on it.
Possession of a mobile or cell phone plus an airtime package does not simply allow you to send a text message to one person.
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Naturally then, Facebook would want people to be able to click to send a text message or phone call without leaving to a rival service.
The women send a text message or make a phone call or fill in a sheet, marking out how many pieces of which products they need.
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Esendex, a mobile messaging service provider based in Nottingham, has been creating the means for clients to send a text message for more than eleven years.
The claim is that the telecoms companies charge us more per unit of data to send a text message next door than it costs to send a message to Mars.
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For example, you can create an out-of-office message that includes a link to an online form that a person can use to override your filter system and send a text message to your phone.
Then there is digital technology: instead of arriving on the dot, you can send a text message apologising for being late (with nearly 25 billion messages sent in 2005, Germany is one of Europe's text-messaging champions).
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The Web admin can decide to send a text message back to the sender to verify the information, send out a blast alert to large numbers of people or post the information onto a Web page with location information from Google Maps (or do all three).
You cannot use a speech-driven device to make a note while talking on the phone, for example, or to send a surreptitious text message during a boring meeting.
These include writing down their medication on a calendar or getting someone to send them a text message to remind them, he added.
After that time period of inactivity, Google will send out a text message and e-mail the secondary address you provide.
For friends who are not on Facebook, the app will send them a text message, so people do not have to decide which is the best way to reach someone.
Linktone's premise is simple enough: Users send the company a text message, ordering anything from the song "Tong Hua" ("Fairy Tale") to the daily installment of a romance novel.
If you still manage to leave your favourite jacket behind, it will send you a text, email or Facebook message with the GPS coordinates of the last known location so you can track it down on Google Maps.
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Beyond merely guarding the entrances to your house, he shows how the software can keep a detailed log or send text message alerts every time any door in the house is opened, to monitor practically every activity in the house.
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They send that code, via text message, to a toll-free phone number, and immediately receive a text back that indicates whether or not the drug is legit.
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Synaptics' chief scientist, Shawn Day, is close to releasing a phone finger touchpad for writing Mandarin characters--an easier way to key in a mobile text message (the Chinese send millions of them every day).
Here, along with your username and password, you can set your Google account to ask you for a six-digit code that Google will send via text message to your phone.
Emotional Bubble Message recognizes the emotion contained in the text message to send the appropriate facial expression in a bubble.
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Users send an invite by email or text message, and the invitee taps a button to enter a browser chat, which opens a browser-based chat room on their phone.
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Once the victim received a text message that included a certain protocol, the malware would send the collected data back to the command-and-control server.
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The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to send the same message from Mars to Earth.
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Speaking of calls, your options when receiving one are to to pick up, hang up, or reject with a text message -- with a slide-up menu offering you the most common apologetic missives to send out.
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