Science news articles about 'text message'Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty
Beginning this crop season, farmers will be able to receive text messages on their cell phones from their plants saying whether they are thirsty or not. Accent Engineering, Inc., of Lubbock, Tex., ... Nagging via text messages to help teens remember meds
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 4gt yr meds? Getting kids to remember their medicine may be a text message away....Cellphone users to be charged for incoming text messages
Cellphone users with Bell and Telus are going to have to fork over a little more to receive incoming text messages, under new pricing plans slated to roll out in August.EU preparing to cap text message prices
European mobile phone users could pay less to send cross-border text messages under plans the European Commission is preparing, fed-up that operators have left its calls to cut prices unanswered.Conservatives blasted for 'grandstanding' on text message fees
The Liberals are blasting the government for "grandstanding" on the new incoming text messaging charges proposed by Bell and Telus.Developing countries tap into text messaging
Despite the acceleration of mobile technology in the developing world, the humble text message reigns supreme.Text message to reveal Obama's VP nod
... Democratic nominee Barack Obama is set to mark another first - as the first presidential candidate to reveal his running mate through text-messaging.Know your text-messaging limits before being caught at school
Beneath the desk, agile fingers flit across the keypad. Above, eye contact with the teacher never breaks. The cell-phone text message is sent, unnoticed. Or noticed.Text Messaging Explodes In America
For the second quarter of 2008, U.S. mobile subscribers sent and received on average 357 text messages per month, compared with making and receiving 204 phone calls a month, according to Nielsen.Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers
(AP) -- The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.Text messages combat HIV in South Africa
... text message.Faced with 1,000 HIV-related deaths in South Africa every day, a ... clinics.The organisations backing Project Masiluleke said text messaging was being used because mobile technology is so ... VIDEO: Elephant Sends Text Messages
A high-tech collar on a farm-raiding elephant in Kenya sends text messages when he crosses a virtual fence. Rangers then rush to shoo him away—safeguarduing both the elephant and crops.UNC study: Text messaging may help children fight off obesity
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The study concludes that cell phone text messaging may be a useful tool for self-monitoring of healthy ... Bus driver sent text messages while on highway: passenger
Acadian Bus Lines is investigating claims by a Nova Scotia passenger that one of its drivers was sending text messages on her cellphone while driving a bus loaded with passengers on a stretch of ... Texting costs are 'out of this world'
... Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that.
“The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 ... 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text ...
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Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty
Beginning this crop season, farmers will be able to receive text messages on their cell phones from their plants saying whether they are thirsty or not. Accent Engineering, Inc., of Lubbock, Tex., ...Nagging via text messages to help teens remember meds
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 4gt yr meds? Getting kids to remember their medicine may be a text message away....Cellphone users to be charged for incoming text messages
Cellphone users with Bell and Telus are going to have to fork over a little more to receive incoming text messages, under new pricing plans slated to roll out in August.EU preparing to cap text message prices
European mobile phone users could pay less to send cross-border text messages under plans the European Commission is preparing, fed-up that operators have left its calls to cut prices unanswered.Conservatives blasted for 'grandstanding' on text message fees
The Liberals are blasting the government for "grandstanding" on the new incoming text messaging charges proposed by Bell and Telus.Developing countries tap into text messaging
Despite the acceleration of mobile technology in the developing world, the humble text message reigns supreme.Text message to reveal Obama's VP nod
... Democratic nominee Barack Obama is set to mark another first - as the first presidential candidate to reveal his running mate through text-messaging.Know your text-messaging limits before being caught at school
Beneath the desk, agile fingers flit across the keypad. Above, eye contact with the teacher never breaks. The cell-phone text message is sent, unnoticed. Or noticed.Text Messaging Explodes In America
For the second quarter of 2008, U.S. mobile subscribers sent and received on average 357 text messages per month, compared with making and receiving 204 phone calls a month, according to Nielsen.Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers
(AP) -- The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.Text messages combat HIV in South Africa
... text message.Faced with 1,000 HIV-related deaths in South Africa every day, a ... clinics.The organisations backing Project Masiluleke said text messaging was being used because mobile technology is so ...VIDEO: Elephant Sends Text Messages
A high-tech collar on a farm-raiding elephant in Kenya sends text messages when he crosses a virtual fence. Rangers then rush to shoo him away—safeguarduing both the elephant and crops.UNC study: Text messaging may help children fight off obesity
... did you have today? Each family in the text messaging group was given a cell phone ... percent. The study concludes that cell phone text messaging may be a useful tool for self-monitoring of healthy ...Bus driver sent text messages while on highway: passenger
Acadian Bus Lines is investigating claims by a Nova Scotia passenger that one of its drivers was sending text messages on her cellphone while driving a bus loaded with passengers on a stretch of ...Texting costs are 'out of this world'
... Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that. “The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 ... 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text ...