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  2. Multimedia Messaging Service - Wikipedia

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    Unlike text-only SMS, MMS can deliver a variety of media, including up to forty seconds of video, one image, a slideshow [2] of multiple images, or audio. Media companies have utilized MMS on a commercial basis as a method of delivering news and entertainment content, and retailers have deployed it as a tool for delivering scannable coupon ...

  3. Multi-tap - Wikipedia

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    The system is used by repeatedly pressing the same key to cycle through the letters for that key. For example, pressing the "3" key twice would indicate the letter "E". Pausing for a set period of time will automatically choose the current letter in the cycle, as will pressing a different key.

  4. SMS language - Wikipedia

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    SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen. Short Message Service language, textism, or textese [a] is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.

  5. List of telephony terminology - Wikipedia

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    Short Message Service (i.e. text messages) SF: Single Frequency supervision tone : US SIP: Session Initiation Protocol: US SP Lock: Unlocking: UK SS7: Signaling System 7 STD: Subscriber trunk dialling: UK and India T-CXR: T-carrier (e.g. T-1) US TAPI: Telephony Application Programming Interface TR: Tip and ring: US TSPS: Traffic Service ...

  6. Instant messaging - Wikipedia

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    Instant messaging (IM), sometimes also called "messaging" or "texting", consists of computer-based human communication between two users (private messaging) or more (chat room or "group") in real-time, allowing immediate receipt of acknowledgment or reply.

  7. Why you should stop texting your kids at school - lite.aol.com

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    Dr. Libby Milkovich, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at Children's Mercy Kansas City, says she asks parents to consider what kids miss out on by having parents at arms' reach during school hours. “By texting back and forth with a parent, a child is unable to practice either self-calming or problem-solving skills,” Milkovich said.

  8. SMS - Wikipedia

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    SMS was originally designed as part of GSM, but is now available on a wide range of networks globally, including 3G, 4G and 5G networks. However, not all text messaging systems use SMS, and some notable alternative implementations of the concept include J-Phone's SkyMail and NTT Docomo's Short Mail, both in Japan.

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