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Canadians Love Text-Messaging
By Mark Evans | March 22, 2005
Although I have a Blackberry, I have to confess that I'm not really hip with the whole text-messaging phenomena. Why tap out a message when a simple phone call will do, right? There are, however, millions of Canadians - a majority of them probably teenagers - with a major addiction as more than 710 million text-messages were sent last year compared with 352 million in 2003. The wireless carriers have to be wildly cheering from the sidelines as text-messaging has become another pillar - along with e-mail, games, ring tones and Web access - in their aggressive data growth strategies. A simple back-of-the-napkin calculation suggests text-messaging generated about $100 million of high-margin business last year. The mobile messaging market in North America will take a major step forward in the next year or so as high-speed networks using 3G and EVDO are turned on. This will make it easier for consumers to send and receive photographs and video clips. You can bet carriers will be more than happy to charge a premium price for the honor.
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March 22nd, 2005 at 9:37 pm
Hey - Practise makes perfect.
Oddly Enough - Reuters
Reuters
Factory Worker Crowned World's Fastest Texter
Tue Mar 22,11:11 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A Scottish factory worker has been crowned the world's fastest text-messager after punching out a complicated message in record time.
Craig Crosbie, 24, took just 48 seconds to type out the 160-character message: “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”
He beat the previous record holder by 19 seconds, Guinness World Records said Tuesday.
Crosbie, who has been texting since the age of 16, sends about 75 messages a day and says the key to fast texting is practice.
“All my friends say that the speed at which I text is quite unbelievable,” Crosbie told Reuters.
April 6th, 2005 at 3:23 am
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April 12th, 2005 at 11:15 am
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