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Sprint Nextel started things off by increasing the amount it charges for SMS messages. Cingular dove in next and angered a lot of customers by sticking to its early termination fee despite a 50% price increase for a central service....
Dec 15 2006 - 03:59 PM ET | Cingular, SMS
Cingular has announced a 50% price increase for the price for an SMS message. Starting January 21st SMS messages will cost 15 cents (this applies to both sending and receiving). Sprint made this same move back in October. Despite the...
Sprint Nextel has raised the rate of an outgoing SMS message to 15 cents, up from the fairly industry standard 10 cents. Along with the hike for SMS, casual data usage (when there isn't a data plan) was raised a...
Sep 25 2006 - 05:40 PM ET | SMS
3jam wasn't the only SMS news out of DEMOfall, 4INFO has announced Mobile Open Platform Beta. The program allows developers to create their own mobile services on top of 4INFO's existing technology (SMS and WAP accessible). After registering there is...
Sep 25 2006 - 05:27 PM ET | SMS
A startup tired of limited group features in standard SMS has launched a reply-to-all service dubbed 3jam. With 3jam users can send a text message to a group and the twist is that replies to that message then go back...
Aug 23 2006 - 04:13 PM ET | SMS
Mobile search provider 4INFO has added TV Guide data to its service. Accessible through both WAP and SMS, 4INFO covers several consumer search verticals such as sports scores, weather, flight tracking and more. USA Today's parent company, Gannett, invested in...
Virgin Mobile USA has announced a short story named Ghost Town that will be delivered exclusively through text messages. Two messages will be sent per day over a five week period. The first messages will be sent out on August...
Jul 17 2006 - 03:25 PM ET | SMS
Podcasting startup Odeo launched a mobile focused side project dubbed twttr this weekend. The free service brings social networking features to regular SMS. Unlike Dodgeball, twttr is not limited to a select set of cities. twttr is accessible through the...
Jul 12 2006 - 08:59 AM ET | SMS
The US Federal Government is updating the existing warning system to be savvy with SMS. The existing alert system currently covers broadcast TV channels and AM radio stations. By the end of next year it's possible that your phone will...
Jun 14 2006 - 12:53 PM ET | SMS
eBay has launched a service to alert buyers via SMS of events in auctions they are participating in. Text messaging is just one of three new alerts eBay launched, but is the only one available today. Alerts via phone call...
Sprint Nextel announced Text to Landline, a clever service that allows Sprint customers to SMS any landline phone in the US. The text message is converted into a voice message which gets played back for the reciepient. At that point...
Mar 22 2006 - 12:06 PM ET | SMS
PayPal has quietly launched a new mobile enabled version of its fund trading service (we hinted it was coming last month). Customers must first activate the mobile component of PayPal by heading online. After that you'll be able to...
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