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Need Answers? Text ChaCha!

ChaCha recognized this trend and decided to make the most of the situation. The search engine is already unique with its community of human search guides, but today ChaCha announced it is launching a mobile service called textChaCha.  

Young Europeans Love Their Text Messaging

E-marketer delivered a Forester study today that showed that 92% of young mobile users in certain European countries report sending SMS text messages on their phone.

Businesses Should Email Interested Consumers

More than half of U.S. consumers who say they are interested in a company are open to receiving a personalized or generic email or text message from the business they are interested in, according to Vertis "2007 Customer Focus Tech Savvy' study.

Brits Type 1.2 Billion Text Messages Per Week

In all of 1999, Brits sent one billion text messages on their mobile phones.  Now, according to new numbers from the Mobile Data Association (MDA), they’re sending more than that per week.

The Internet's Making Us Shy?

I'm not really willing yet to use the phrase "worldwide epidemic," it's only a few percentage points, and well, I haven't seen the methodology. But that is the phrase the Daily Telegraph used, so, if you're worried about pandemics of technology-induced shyness, be prepared to hold your face and run away screaming.

CallWave Teams Up With Google Desktop

Google and CallWave have partnered to provide a text-messaging gadget for Google Desktop users. With the utility, users will be able to send text messages to any cell phone, while choosing to receive them either as an e-mail message or have them sent directly to their handset. The service is currently still in beta, and allows subscribers to send unlimited text messages throughout the United States and Canada.

Text Messaging = Price Gouging? OMG! WTF?

In comparison to the other ways in which consumers spend money, sending a text message seems relatively cheap. The truth, however, is that mobile users pay 7314% more to send a text message than they actually should.

I Saw Your Mom Having Text

Text messaging isn't just for hip teens or gadget-obsessed Japanese mobile phone users; mothers have been using it in greater numbers to keep in touch with Dad and the kids.