Not meaning to sound impartial, but there’s not much special about the BlackBerry OS (RIM’s disastrous performance of late must mean something.) Nothing much special, apart from BBM that is, or BlackBerry messenger for those not in the know. SMS is a relatively new technology and communication is changing and adapting to human needs and [...]

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As phones and contracts keep shooting up in price with no sign of stopping any time soon, it’s nice to see a network offering a reasonable contract. In fact Virgin Mobile’s latest deal is better than reasonable, it’s great. With their new Sim-only deal you can get unlimited texts*, unlimited Virgin-to-Virgin calls and 100 minutes [...]

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According to a survey conducted by mobile transaction network mBlox, 90% of consumers are in favor of the use of multi-channeloptions for interacting with businesses and SMS has emerged to be the most preferred method. 59 percent of the UK mobile users have counted SMS as their preferred choice for appointment reminders. US consumers are [...]

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Yesterday SMS celebrated its 25th birthday. The now standard technology was developed in 1985 in a collaboration between France and Germany. However the first text message was not sent until seven years later. (“Happy Christmas”) was sent on December 3, 1992 over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom from Neil Papworth of Sema [...]

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According to Ofcom the UK sends the most text messages in Europe, in fact we Brits send the most text messages in the world except for the USA. Last year an estimated 83 billion text messages where sent in the UK. Also UK consumers have access to the cheapest prices for mobile phones and broadband, but the overall broadband speed in the UK isn’t up to par when compared with our fellow Europeans in Holland, Sweden and France.

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The English lexicon has officially grown by one with Oxford University Press nominating “unfriend” as the 2009 word of the year. Your mum may bemoan the effects that SMS messages and 140-character Tweets are having on your everyday ability to communicate properly, but geek speak has now been ratified. OUP has defined unfriend as: verb [...]

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There are so many technology videos out there- selling us things, making us laugh, or doing both- that it’s hard to cut the wheat from the chaff and find one of any decent quality. We’ve waded through hours of videos to bring you five of the best.

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Recent data from the Mobile Data Association (MDA) has shown that more than ever, we in the UK love the sound of that little “beep”, that holds the promise of a new text message on our phone. Last quarter’s UK Mobile Trends Report shows that we have been sending a whopping 1.4 billion SMS messages [...]

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