Short Message Service (SMS texts) will continue to be the primary means of mobile payment.

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The Stop Texting Fair Use Act, or STFU Act, would apply to message transmitted using the Short Message Service (SMS) as well as messages containing image, video, and sound content (MMS messages).

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According to the Yankee Group, more than half of all teens between the ages of 13 and 17 are active users of wireless text messaging, sending blurbs using the "SMS" short message service.

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Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.

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