A text message can be defined as a message sent from one phone to another that is 160 characters (including spaces). This is a service available on most cellphones and PDAs. Here are some applications of texting.
Personal Messaging
The most common application of texting is sending personal messages from one cellphone to another. This usually involves no business or monetary gain.
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This is a text message that is sent from a business or to a business. For example, someone voting for a reality show, or being sent a ring tone.
Business Text Messaging
If a phone sending a text is owned by the company, there is legislation on the books that says the company is allowed to monitor the incoming and outgoing messages.
Script to Text
On some touch-screen phones, the user is able to write letters or groups of letters into a box and the phone will change the script into words to be texted. This is not a fully reliable technology, as people have different styles of writing and it would take a lot of programming to get everyone's particular style deciphered.
Talk to Text
This is a new way to text where you simply speak your text into your phone or Bluetooth and it will show up in your text message. This is a new technology, thus not a lot of people are using it yet.
Chat to Text
Chat to Text is a feature that not only allows you to chat on your computer and thus turn it into a text to the receiver, but additionally this new feature comes with a bonus. Users of Chat to Text actually earn residuals when other users sign up for the feature. Plus, each user is provided with an icon to place on their website. Businesses can use Chat to Text to offer a "live" feature on their website. The chat is immediately sent to their cellphone as a text.
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