Articles on SMS


Text Message Warning of Gang Initiation at Walmart a Hoax that Won’t Die  806 Views (This article has 1 comment)
Police say that a hoax in the form of a text message warning women to stay away from Walmart because of a gang initiation requiring women to be gunned down in the Walmart parking lot is a hoax that has been around since at least 2005.

Cell Phone Providers Dirty Little Secret: Cashing in on SMS Text Messages  2,609 Views (This article has 1 comment)
More than 2.5 trillion SMS text messages have been sent from cell phones worldwide this year. This means that text messaging brings in billions of dollars in revenue for the world’s four major cell phone carriers. In fact, it's estimated that SMS text messaging revenues could even top $165 billion by 2011. (SMS stands for "Short Message Service".) So, if the text messaging business is so lucrative, why have AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless doubled the pay-per-use-price for messages from 10 cents to 20 cents?

Life-Saving Amputation Surgery Performed by Text Message  1,020 Views (This article has 2 comments)
A British doctor working in the Congo has saved the life of a teen by amputating his arm following instructions that were texted to him by a colleague back in the UK.

Cell Phone Text Messaging by Engineer Implicated in Deadly California MetroLink Train Crash  1,757 Views (comments)
The Los Angeles Metrolink train crash tragedy at Chatsworth which killed 25 and injured another 130 is being blamed on the engineer's text messaging SMS messages with a couple of teenage train enthusiasts, causing him to miss a critical red light. The engineer, Robert Sanchez, was among the 25 killed in the crash.
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