KANSAS CITY, Kan., Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Four major wireless carriers in the United States worked in conjunction to increase text-messaging fees nationwide, a lawsuit in Kansas City, Kan., alleges.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Analysts say releasing Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential choice in a text message will help his campaign gather cell phone numbers.
WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- Parents are joining teens in the cell phone text-messaging revolution, becoming the fastest-growing group thumb-typing the abbreviated texts.
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Verizon Wireless customers sent a record 10 billion text messages in June alone, and soon the company will charge 5 cents more per message.
WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- Text messaging, the communications phenomenon that has caught on in the United States in a big way, is sending mobile phone bills sky high. The Washington Post talked with sociologists and parents who said it is not unusual for teens to send thousands of
NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Verizon Wireless said Friday it would raise its text-messaging rate from a dime to 15 cents for customers without monthly texting plans.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. college athletic coaches increasingly use text messaging to slip around the NCAA's oversight to contact prized recruits, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
LONDON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Text messaging of Chlamydia test results can speed up treatment, a six-month study in Britain's journal Sexually Transmitted Infections concludes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A survey finds that U.S. cell phone users are getting more comfortable with text messaging -- and with getting emotional via text message.
WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Five billion text messages are sent from and to U.S. cell phones every month--up from 2.8 billion last year, to a wireless trade association says.
