Ina Fried in Mobile on August 29, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT
The first version Samsung’s IM service will support Android and Bada; by year’s end it should work on all major devices.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 29, 2011 at 6:37 am PT
Following Apple and Research In Motion, Samsung says that it, too, will offer a dedicated messaging service available for Samsung device owners to easily message one another.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 5, 2011 at 12:28 am PT
Txteagle, which conducts surveys via text message in emerging markets, has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding from Spark Capital and seed investors RBC Venture Partners, Flywheel Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 16, 2011 at 5:05 pm PT
Pinger struck out with its first idea–a way to make voicemail more like email–but the team appears to have found its niche with its TextFree line of apps which offer free texting and even calling from the iPhone and Android phones. The service also works on devices such as the iPod Touch that don’t normally support calling.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 3, 2011 at 7:30 am PT
The U.K.-based wireless carrier says the government hasn’t allowed text messaging to be turned back on, and that it has been forced to send pro-government messages to customers. Plus, more updates from Abdulla in Cairo.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT
Some major benefits of the new Verizon iPhone service include crisp, clear calls with relatively few drops. But AT&T offers faster data downloads.
Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 11, 2010 at 11:27 am PT
Federal regulators are proposing new regulations on the wireless phone industry, which would require carriers to alert consumers if they’ve gone over their monthly data or text message allotments.
Niraj Sheth, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 7, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Sprint Nextel Corp. is pushing even further into low-cost, prepaid cellphone service as the U.S.’s third-largest wireless carrier by subscribers fights to hang on to traditional contract customers.
The carrier plans to launch a new and cheaper prepaid-cellphone brand, its fourth, in coming weeks and to start selling new, lower-priced plans from another of its prepaid labels.
Mary Pilon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 5, 2010 at 3:03 pm PT
A year ago, Lauren Leto and Ben Bator started anonymously publishing their friends’ text messages.
Since then, their site, Texts From Last Night has received over 3 million texts messages.
The Michigan-based friends from college just released a new TFLN book.
Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 25, 2009 at 12:00 am PT
The Internet Archive and more than 20 Web companies are banding together to preserve the historical records of the abbreviated Internet addresses that are passed around on services such as Twitter.
Services such as Bit.ly and TinyURL allow consumers to convert a lengthy Web address into a miniaturized one. They have soared in popularity in recent years with the advent of Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per post.
