* SMS Lübeck ( 1903 )

In some countries, Internet broadcasting was supplemented by updates via email, WAP and SMS.

In 1914 the island was visited by the German light cruiser SMS Emden half-way through its historic commerce raiding cruise during the first months of World War I.

The following year in 1992, the first short messaging service ( SMS or " text message ") message was sent and Vodafone UK and Telecom Finland signed the first international roaming agreement.

* ICQ6 was launched on April 17, 2007, and offered a single communication platform that combines the various user options: instant messaging services, free SMS from ICQ to mobile, voice and video communication.

Following the Royal Navy's revenge at the Battle of the Falkland Islands a month later, the only surviving German cruiser, SMS Dresden, was finally hunted down and cornered at Más a Tierra early in 1915, where she was scuttled after a brief battle with British cruisers.

The SMS concept was developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert.

The key idea for SMS was to use this telephony-optimized system, and to transport messages on the signaling paths needed to control the telephony traffic during time periods when no signaling traffic existed.

This concept was instrumental for the implementation of SMS in every mobile station ever produced and in every network from early days.

A new network element required was a specialized short message service center, and enhancements were required to the radio capacity and network transport infrastructure to accommodate growing SMS traffic.

The technical development of SMS was a multinational collaboration supporting the framework of standards bodies, and through these organizations the technology was made freely available to the whole world.

The first proposal which initiated the development of SMS was made by a contribution of Germany and France into the GSM group meeting in February 1985 in Oslo.

SMS was considered in the main GSM group as a possible service for the new digital cellular system.

WP4 created a Drafting Group Message Handling ( DGMH ), which was responsible for the specification of SMS.

Finn Trosby of Telenor chaired the draft group through its first 3 years, in which the design of SMS was established.

The Game Gear was invented by Makoto Ohara of Sega Enterprises Ltd. as a portable version of the Master System ( SMS ).

Because of the similarities between the SMS and the Game Gear, it was fairly easy for SMS games to be ported to Game Gear cartridges ; the Master Gear Converter, released during the system's lifetime, even allowed original SMS cartridges to be played on the Game Gear directly.

In April 2010 Powers was named Director of the snowboarding program at The Stratton Mountain School ( SMS ), in Vermont.

SMS Hindenburg, a battlecruiser commissioned in the Imperial German Navy in 1917 and the last capital ship to enter service in the Imperial Navy, was also named after him.

St Mary's Church contains a memorial to the men of who lost their lives in HMS Monmouth, which was sunk with all hands on 1 November 1914, by German cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau off the Chilean Coast at the Battle of Coronel ; the church hosts an annual service in remembrance.

In 1995, fax, data and SMS messaging services were launched commercially, the first 1900 MHz GSM network became operational in the United States and GSM subscribers worldwide exceeded 10 million.

It is the first African mobile service operator to use ForgetMeNot Africa's eTXT service to enable their customer base to send and receive email via any mobile capable of a simple SMS

RJ will be the first Middle East airline to provide its passengers with OnAir ’ s in-flight Internet and mobile phone services, including e-mail, SMS and voice calls.

Most of the testing of the missile was done at Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida by the 6555th Aerospace Test Group, and the first successful underground silo launch of a Titan II ICBM took place at Vandenberg by the 395th SMS in April 1963.

The 851st SMS became the first Titan I unit to pass.

The 10th Strategic Missile Squadron ( SMS ) was activated on 1 November 1961 and Alpha-01, the first launch control facility, was completed in July 1962.

On December 3, 1960, the first Atlas E missile arrived at the 567th SMS.

The introduction of Blackberry devices with Voice, Data, Browser, SMS and organizer applications in 2002 marked the first true smartphones .. Services such as BlackBerry Messenger and the integration of all communications into a single inbox allowed users to access, create and share and act upon information instantly.

He was first officer of the battleship SMS Brandenburg when it was sent to East Asia in 1899 during the Boxer Rebellion.

His first ship was the SMS Thüringen.

* 2001: myX, Romania's first mobile portal launched ; SMS services such as dating, ringtones and logos are introduced ; GPRS service launched

Before being branded as Puyo Pop internationally, the first game saw release outside Japan in 1993 as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine for the Sega Mega Drive, Game Gear, and Master System ( The SMS version was released in Europe and Brazil ), and two years later as Kirby's Ghost Trap ( European Super NES version ) and Kirby's Avalanche ( North American Super NES version ).

SMS messaging was used for the first time was on 3 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group ( now Airwide Solutions ), used a personal computer to send the text message " Merry Christmas " via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis.

The Eurovision Song Contest organized the first pan-European SMS voting in 2002, as a part of the voting system ( there was also a voting over traditional phone lines ).

Nautilus Minerals, in partnership with Placer Dome ( now part of Barrick Gold ), succeeded in 2006 in returning over 10 metric tons of mined SMS to the surface using modified drum cutters mounted on an ROV, a world first.

Neptune Minerals in 2007 succeeded in recovering SMS sediment samples using a modified oil industry suction pump mounted on an ROV, also a world first.

He went into exile, first traveling to Kingston, Jamaica, aboard the German cruiser SMS Dresden.

Examples include the July 2009 in the wild release of the Sexy Space text message worm, the world's first botnet capable SMS worm, which targeted the Symbian operating system in Nokia smartphones.

* 3 August – The Imperial German Navy leases the cargo-passenger ship Answald for conversion into Germanys first seaplane carrier, SMS Answald, designated Flugzeugmutterschiff I ( Airplane Mothership I ).

* 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.

* 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

On 1 October 1888, the German gunboat SMS Eber landed 36 men on Nauru.

* SMS Pommern, German World War I battleship

* SMS Posen, a German dreadnought, 1908 – 1922

* SMS Rhein, a 1871 steam-powered ironclad monitor of the German Imperial Navy

March 14: ( WWI ) Royal Navy forced the German light cruiser SMS Dresden ( 1907 ) | SMS Dresden to scuttle.

* October 23 – WWI: Torpedoing of the armored cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert results in only three men being rescued from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the German Imperial Navy in the Baltic Sea during the War.

* SMS Irene, a German protected cruiser 1887-1921, one of two Irene class cruisers

* SMS Hansa ( 1872 ), a German armored corvette

* SMS Hansa ( 1898 ), a German protected cruiser

In 1905, aged seventeen, Canaris joined the German Imperial Navy and by the outbreak of World War I was serving on board the SMS Dresden as an intelligence officer.

** SMS Königsberg ( 1905 ), lead ship of the class, stationed in German East Africa at the start of World War I

* SMS Libau, a German vessel which in 1916 posed as the Norwegian Aud while carrying arms to Ireland for the Easter Rising

* SMS Hela, light cruiser of the Imperial German Navy

The most famous captain of a German merchant raider, Felix von Luckner, used a sailing ship SMS Seeadler for his voyage during World War I.

* SMS Kaiser Barbarossa, a German pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1900

Since he was cut off from essential information, Admiral von Spee sent the light cruiser SMS Nürnberg to Honolulu in the United States Territory of Hawaii to obtain the latest newspapers and wire dispatches from the German consul.