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6 unusual facts about text messaging


Charley Hearn

Sutton manager Paul Doswell said; "We had agreed terms before I went away and I got a text message from Charley this week, saying the time wasn’t right for him to join us".

Distracted driving

Distracted driving is the act of driving while engaged in other activities—such as looking after children, texting, talking on the phone or to a passenger, eating, or reading—that take the driver’s attention away from the road.

Draft Universe

For example, in modern times, the functional gets a text message, while in 1920s, one would get a telegram delivered by a postman-functional.

Indiana State Fair stage collapse

Messages about the forecasts were relayed to various State Fair personnel via an automated text-messaging system.

Redroad FM

After the first broadcast a phone was put in the Redroad studio so listeners can text in after that an email account was set up so listeners can email in, finally a Facebook group was set up so listeners can get in touch via Facebook.

Westminster motorcycle parking charge

In response, he received 200 electronic mail messages, numerous text messages and telephone calls, including 15 death threats.


Hirsty's Daily Dose

Mindmasher - Brain teaser delivered by the show's producer, Scott Myers, for listeners to text in their answers.

Murder conviction without a body

In the 2001 murder of Danielle Jones, the required circumstantial evidence was provided by forensic analysis of text messages sent by the accused, her uncle Stuart Campbell, who was convicted of her murder in December 2002.

Naomi Baron

She is also interested in language use in the computer age, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, cross-cultural research on mobile phones, Human multitasking behavior, and Facebook online social interaction usage by American college students.

The Valley Library

Librarians at Valley Library began using text messaging in March 2010 to communicate with some library patrons, and earlier started to loan out Amazon's Kindle reader.


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Blast Theory

Recent work uses mobile technologies such as text messaging, MMS messaging and 3G phones with the aim of "exploring how technology might be considered to create new cultural spaces in which the work is customised and personalised for each participant".

Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport

In addition to flight status text-messaging notification, the site also features current fares to popular routes, including Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Querétaro.

Indiana's NewsCenter

Part of the plan to win back viewers included the introduction of new technology such as text messaging, an improved website with more online video, and upgrading weather equipment including the introduction of a VIPIR radar system.

Jason McHugh

McHugh wrote and directed Mindfield which was a text messaging prankster game created by Perry Farrell for Lollapalooza.

MessageNet systems

PageStation — An advanced text messaging software system that provides real-time text messaging to pagers, PDAs, Twitter, and cell phones, from any authorized computer on a network.

Set list

In the case of Bruce Springsteen, fans attending concerts even take on the assigned role of set list caller, periodically calling out or text-messaging from a cell phone to a friend, to report the most recent songs played, with the friend then updating a running set list on one of several Internet forums.

Top 20 on 20

One can also vote their favorite songs by calling the station number (866-553-2020), or text messaging, Sirius XM Love moved from Sirius 3, XM 23 and Dish Network 6003 to Sirius XM Radio 17 and Dish Network 6017 as part of the May 4 channel lineup.

WIKD-LP

The club became known for its fliers which were posted around campus (often in unapproved locations) to announce club meetings, as this was long before e-mail and text messaging and Facebook and Twitter.