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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To contact the Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline in the U.S., call 1-888-3737-888 or use the Twilio short code "BeFree" (233733) to send a text message.
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.
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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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).
These include writing down their medication on a calendar or getting someone to send them a text message to remind them, he added.
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.
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.
The system can send a text message to a driver when the car is charged and ready to drive.
Or what if you could send a text message to everyone in your neighborhood?
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.
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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The result let participants record a video or text message and send it along with a free Coke to special vending machines in Buenos Aires, Capetown, New York City, and Mountain View, California.
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).
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.
Emotional Bubble Message recognizes the emotion contained in the text message to send the appropriate facial expression in a bubble.
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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.
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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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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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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Karma is an application for iPhones and Android devices (Blackberries, too, eventually) that lets people send a gift say wine, chocolates, or stuffed animals to someone via a simple text message, email, or Facebook post.
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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