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		<title>Why Facebook Will Have Trouble Killing the Text Message</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/05/why-facebook-will-have-trouble-killing-the-text-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has started to roll out a new version of its Messenger app for Android that only requires a name and a phone number, not an actual Facebook account, to sign up. Although the new Facebook Messenger app is only available in a handful of countries for now&#8211;Australia, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Venezuela&#8211;it will eventually roll out to the United States and elsewhere, allowing users to chat with their phone contacts even if they&#8217;re not using Facebook. This news has set the tech world atwitter with proclamations that the new Messenger is an assault on the lowly text message (including one such proclamation from Facebook itself). It&#8217;s a nice thought, at least. Given that a single text to your neighbor can cost more than a data transmission from Mars, who wouldn&#8217;t relish the idea of wireless carriers getting their comeuppance? In reality, though, standard SMS has a lot going for it, and will likely weather all kinds of assaults, especially one from Facebook. For one thing, Facebook Messenger faces the same adoption hurdle as other Internet-based messaging apps like WhatsApp and Viber: It requires a conscious decision not to use traditional SMS. With Facebook Messenger, you must first consider whether the recipient has Facebook installed, and is set up to receive notifications for new messages. Then, you must commit to using the Messenger app instead of your phone&#8217;s built-in SMS functionality. Once you do that, the conversation is locked into Facebook unless you have one of the select Android phones that can integrate regular text messages. That&#8217;s a lot to consider compared to the standard SMS, which is guaranteed to reach and alert the recipient as long as you have the right phone number. To truly threaten the text message, Facebook Messenger needs the kind of tight smartphone integration found in Apple&#8217;s iMessage, which automatically replaces standard text messages between any two iPhone users. That&#8217;s not really possible unless Facebook starts making its own smartphones. In lieu of tighter smartphone integration, Facebook simply has to compete with similar services that are already<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152840&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Text Messaging on Your PC with These 3 Handy Android Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've tried a bunch of free Android apps that let you send and receive SMS messages on a PC, and have whittled the list down to three favorites.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=134461&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Tries to Redefine What Citizens Can and Can&#8217;t Text to Each Other</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/24/pakistan-tries-to-redefine-what-citizens-can-and-cant-text-to-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's little to make you feel as out of touch with what's happening with "the kids today" as discovering that there are all manner of words that apparently have double meanings that you were entirely unaware of. For example, "Kmart." Or "hobo." Or "murder." All of which were contained on a list of obscene words that the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority recently attempted to have banned from text messaging within the country.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=107440&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jaw-Dropper: 18 to 24 Year Olds Average 110 Text Messages per Day</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/20/jaw-dropper-18-to-24-year-olds-average-110-text-messages-per-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Pew Internet study takes a look at the texting habits of cell phone owners. The findings show that of the 83% of American adults who own cell phones, roughly 73% of them send text messages and about 31% of them prefer texting to actually talking on the phone. Surprising? Not really. But here&#8217;s the craziest data point: Cell phone owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an incredible 109.5 text messages per day, or 3,200 per month. Back in 2009, a similar Nielsen study found that teens were averaging a few hundred less with only 2,899 texts per month. (MORE: The Top 10 Places to Lose Your Smartphone) AT&#38;T famously killed their $10 for 1,000 texts plan back in August to offer two options: $20 for an unlimited plan, or a $0.20 per text option. If a cell owner sends even half of what normal 18- to 24-year olds average at 20 cents each, that&#8217;d still work out to over $320 a month. (Hopefully no one actually does this.) Egregious? Maybe. But it&#8217;s hardly new. Perhaps it&#8217;s that every carrier outside of Verizon offers unlimited texting in some form while advertising it as the smarter alternative, giving them free reign to text as they please. Still, the increase in texting may eventually taper off as smartphone penetration continues to rise; cell phone owners will have viable (and free) channels outside of SMS to communicate with their friends. Or maybe everyone&#8217;s just texting each other whales. See the full findings here. MORE: Everything You Need to Know About the Current State of Digital Comics Chris Gayomali is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @chrigz, on Facebook, or on Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97631&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s First Ever Text Message: &#8216;Burp&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/08/americas-first-ever-sms-message-burp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, &#8220;Burp.&#8221; Oh dear. That&#8217;s the trouble with key moments in history: Very often, the people involved have no idea that they&#8217;re taking part in a key moment in history. Most of time it&#8217;s just another ordinary day where you brush your teeth, go to work, and type the word &#8220;Burp&#8221; in a message to your boss. Happens all the time. This particular moment in history was June 7th, 1993. Brennan Hayden was an engineer working for Aldiscon, a telecommunications firm hired by FleetCall to set up this newfangled messaging system. Tasked with sending a test message to his FleetCall bosses, Hayden sent &#8220;Burp.&#8221; Why &#8220;Burp?&#8221; He told Wireless Week: &#8220;The idea was the phone was getting the first message, it was a baby, anthropomorphization of the phone. There was dead silence, and then they said, &#8216;Send a different message.&#8217; So I sent something like &#8216;Watson come here.&#8217;&#8221; It might have been the first SMS in the U.S., but it wasn&#8217;t the first in the world. That honor went to Neil Papworth in the U.K., who sent the words &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; to a colleague on December 3rd, 1992. SMS has come a long, long way since then. It has changed the way people, especially teenagers, communicate. It&#8217;s been adapted and turned to all sorts of uses, such as instant payments. In Kenya, it does a pretty good job of providing banking services to millions. Back to the present day, and someone, probably in the area of Cupertino, must have recently been responsible for sending the first ever iMessage during tests for Apple&#8217;s new service, announced on Monday. Let&#8217;s hope it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;Burp&#8221;. Knowing Apple, it probably wasn&#8217;t. (Via Wireless Week)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=85796&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s New Messaging Service: Please Don&#8217;t Call It E-Mail!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/11/15/facebooks-new-messaging-service-please-dont-call-it-e-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For months, there have been rumors that Facebook was working on turning the inboxes of its 500 million-plus users into a full-blown e-mail service. Today, Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg formally unveiled the subject of the rumors&#8211;code-named &#8220;Titan&#8221; and officially named simply &#8220;Facebook Messages&#8221;&#8211;at an event in San Francisco. And he spent much of his time stressing that whatever this new thing is, it&#8217;s not e-mail. (More on Time.com: Why Facebook Deals is Bad News for Foursquare) Instead, it&#8217;s a massive update to Facebook&#8217;s current messaging system, chat feature, text-messaging integration, and smartphone applications that mashes up all sorts of communications (including e-mail) into one unified stream. Zuckerberg and Facebook engineering honcho Andrew Bosworth mostly talked about the service rather than demoing it, but they said that it&#8217;ll include features such as these: Every Facebook user will get an e-mail address: If your Facebook profile is located at facebook.com/yournamehere, your e-mail address will be yournamehere@facebook.com. If you&#8217;re logged into Facebook, incoming e-mail will show up in the service&#8217;s chat service; reply to a message, and it&#8217;ll be sent as an e-mail. Similarly, the Facebook iPhone app will notify you of e-mail and let you receive and send messages. (An Android version will come along later.) In a feature that sounds a little like Google&#8217;s Priority Inbox, you can organize the people you receive messages from into important folks (friends and family), others who aren&#8217;t so vital (your credit card company, say), and Junk. The goal is let you see stuff you really want to see immediately, allow you to check in on less urgent messages once a day, and ignore spam. You can also choose to have messages from people not on your Facebook friends list bounced, period. Like e-mail, Facebook messages will be able to include file attachments; a deal with Microsoft will let you edit documents using the Office Web Apps online suite. The service will go beyond threaded-message interfaces such as Gmail&#8217;s Conversations by letting you scroll back through all the communications you&#8217;ve had with a particular person<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=55015&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook and Skype Are Beginning a Beautiful Friendship</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/09/29/facebook-and-skype-are-beginning-a-beautiful-friendship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Castillo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get ready for Grandma to say hello more often on Facebook. According to All Things Digital, Facebook and Skype are getting ready to announce a &#8220;significant and wide-ranging&#8221; partnership. The companies hope to bring SMS, voice chat and Facebook Connect all together so you&#8217;ll have no need to use any other service to contact your friends and loved ones. Consequently, you&#8217;ll never be left alone from Uncle Murray, who keeps messaging you those corny jokes and Grandma Martha, who accidentally hits the dial button and can&#8217;t figure out how to end the call. It would probably look like this:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=47831&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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