In Other News (January 24, 2006)

branden (2209 days ago)

Lots of text and chat news today!

- Canadians sending 5.3 million text messages each day. The number of person-to-person text messages sent in Canada in September 2005 totalled 158.8 million, or more than 5 million per day. [txt.ca]

- The universal attraction of text-messaging. In fact: it’s a kind of avoidance mechanism that preserves the feeling of communication – the immediacy – without, for the most part, the burden of actual intimacy or substance. [NYT]

- Text messaging world record smashed. A 28 year old Singaporean women has triple-tapped 26 words into a mobile phone in an astonishing 43.24 seconds. [MobileBurn]

- Sprint lauches new mobile chat services. Sprint lauches new mobile chat services. The chat services can be downloaded now on Sprint PCS Vision and Sprint Power Vision phones. [MobileGuerilla]

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