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[A]Not long ago, texting, also called SMS, was the domain of the young. But now it appears to have joined the letter, phone, fax
[A]Not long ago, texting, also called SMS, was the domain of the young. But now it appears to have joined the letter, phone, fax
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2015-04-10
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[A]Not long ago, texting, also called SMS, was the domain of the young. But now it appears to have joined the letter, phone, fax and e-mail as a bona fide communications tool of institutions in government and the private sector.
[B]Late last year the human-resources director of a French radio station sent a "texto" message to several staff members over the weekend telling them not to bother coming to work on Monday: they were fired. The boss, of course, didn’t have to deliver the bad news face to face. E-mail wouldn’t have been appropriate because the employees might not have checked their in boxes until Monday morning. But a message to the cell phone is both instantaneous and private.
[C]Texting is popping up in some surprising places. In Ukraine, the son of the leader of the main opposition group, the Party of Regions, is overseeing the country’s first text-message opinion poll-referred to as an"sms referendum. "From Jan. 17 until mid-March, those surveyed will be able to chime in by text message on whether Russian should be the country’s official second language. In Thailand, 25 million voters received a text reminder to vote in last year’s national election, which saw the landslide re-election of Thaksin Shinawatra, a businessman who made a fortune in the cell-phone industry.
[D]The biggest users, at least among Europeans and Asians, have until now been the under-30 crowd. For them, texting is fully integrated into their lives, says Per Holmkvist, CEO of Swedish cell-phone firm Mobiento. According to surveys, a majority of young Europeans would choose their texting service over actual phone calling, if they were forced to pick one or the other.
[E]Perhaps the best indication that texting has become ingrained in the culture is its use by government authorities, who are rarely quick to incorporate new technologies. Last autumn, residents of the Swiss town of Baluch were allowed to cast real votes by cell phone to decide on a local ballot measure. Switzerland, a country sometimes mocked in Europe over the number of times people vote on ballot initiatives each year, is contemplating broadening the text-voting system nationwide.
[F]Just as the technology finds acceptance, it is changing. Instant messaging, a faster, keyboard-oriented method of texting, is catching on as more cell phones and PDAs come with tiny keyboards. Then there’s photo and video messaging. Projections suggest that the total messaging market—text, photo and video-will be worth 5 0 billion, with 2. 3 8 trillion messages sent, by 2010. That’s no youth fad.
[G]Are you afraid of storms, bursting levees and killer tsunamis? Hold on to your cell phone—it may soon be warning you of impending catastrophe. Starting on Feb. 1, cellphone owners in flood-prone regions of the Netherlands can expect a ring and then a text message warning with evacuation instructions in case of flood. And it’s not just the water-watchful Dutch. South Korea is working out the kinks in a cell-phone storm-warning system. Finland, Malaysia and India are mulling similar plans.
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