If SMS over GPRS is used, an SMS transmission speed of about 30 SMS messages per minute may be achieved.

Like email on the internet, the top application on mobile is also a personal messaging service, but SMS text messaging is used by over 2. 4 billion people.

* Oh My God, Oh My Goodness, or Oh My Gosh, a common abbreviation used in SMS, Instant Messaging and other internet communication.

Other types of slang include SMS language used on mobile phones, and " chatspeak ," ( e. g., " LOL ", an acronym meaning " laughing out loud " or " laugh out loud " or ROFL, " rolling on the floor laughing "), which is widely used in instant messaging on the Internet.

SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world, with 3. 6 billion active users, or 78 % of all mobile phone subscribers.

The term SMS is used as a synonym for all types of short text messaging as well as the user activity itself in many parts of the world.

SMS is also being used as a form of direct marketing known as SMS marketing.

ALE is most commonly used for hooking up operators for voice contacts on SSB ( single sideband modulation ), HF internet connectivity for email, SMS phone texting or text messaging, real-time chat via HF text, Geo Position Reporting, and file transfer.

Pagers are assigned with telephone numbers in area code 480 and can also be contacted using email, SMS and the web-based interface used to send messages to Iridium phones.

Update is also the term used by some CM tools ( CM +, PLS, SMS ) for the change package concept ( see changelist ).

* Cliff Kushler, inventor of the T9 technology used in SMS ( mobile phone text messages )

The double tracked CSX ( former NYC, PC, Conrail ) line is still frequently used, while the remains of the D & H line west of the village is leased to SMS Rail lines, which services the Northeast Industrial Park.

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.

Greeklish was commonly used on the Internet when Greek people communicate by forum, e-mail, IRC, instant messaging and occasionally on SMS, mainly because older operating systems didn't have the ability to write in Greek, or in a unicode form like UTF-8.

Pidgin's support for XMPP means that these transports can be used to communicate via otherwise unsupported protocols, including not only instant messaging protocols, but also protocols such as SMS or E-mail.

XMPP is also used in deployments of non-IM services, including smart grid systems such as demand-response applications, message-oriented middleware, and as a replacement for SMS to provide text messaging on many smartphone clients.

In April 2008, O2 UK launched voice-enabled shortcodes, adding voice functionality to the five-digit codes already used for SMS.

* Puzzle iT web site by Dr. Florian Radut A British-Romanian puzzle collection: mechanical puzzles, 2D puzzles, 3D puzzles, logic games and anagram puzzles, some of them used in TV Game-Shows, SMS contests and online contests.

Since most SMSC vendors have adopted FTP as an ad-hoc method by which large distribution lists are transferred to the SMSC prior to being used in a bulk-messaging SMS submission, it is expected that MMSC vendors will also adopt FTP.

Other numbers beginning with 19 are generally used for premium rate short message service ( SMS ) services on mobile phones.

* Instructions on how to send SMS to El Salvador

* 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.

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

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.

The input documents on SMS had been prepared by Friedhelm Hillebrand ( Deutsche Telekom ) with contributions from Bernard Ghillebaert ( France Télécom ).

SMIL is being implemented on handheld and mobile devices and has also spawned the Multimedia Messaging Service ( MMS ) which is a video and picture equivalent of Short Message Service ( SMS ).

SMS ( Short Message Service ) is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones.

* Certain types of nonwoven fabric are referred to as " SMS ", because they superimpose spun layers on melted layers on more spun layers

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.

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.

All handsets can receive SMS, but only the 9505, 9505A, 9555, Extreme and those based on the 9522 can send them.

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.

VoIP is available on many smartphones and Internet devices so that users of portable devices that are not phones, may place calls or send SMS text messages over 3G or Wi-Fi.

Light guns are very popular in arcade games, but had not caught on as well in the home video game console market until after the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ), Sega Master System ( SMS ), Mega Drive / Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( SNES ) systems and Atari XEGS.

Many modern telemetry systems take advantage of the low cost and ubiquity of GSM networks by using SMS to receive and transmit telemetry data.

Cybercrimes are defined as: " Offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm to the victim directly or indirectly, using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet ( Chat rooms, emails, notice boards and groups ) and mobile phones ( SMS / MMS )".

The predominantly young users of the modern means of communication ( SMS, email ) have found advantages of using the rarely spoken verb forms like aorist and imperfect as they require fewer characters than compound verbs, thus bringing them back to popular use.

With full support from Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German admiralty created a Far East Cruiser Division with the modern light cruiser SMS Irene and three aging small ships under the command of Rear Admiral Paul Hoffmann.

There is a Web / e-mail to SMS gateway which enables messages to be sent from the Internet or an e-mail account to Iridium handsets for free.

Cell phone customers can even have their local forecast sent to their mobile handsets from TWC via SMS by sending a text message with their ZIP code to 42278 which spells 4cast.

One factor in the slow take-up of SMS was that operators were slow to set up charging systems, especially for prepaid subscribers, and eliminate billing fraud, which was possible by changing SMSC settings on individual handsets to use the SMSCs of other operators.

DECT SMS handsets are also preprogrammed for Eircom's SMSC.

Using DMS, also text messaging was possible between two NMT handsets before SMS service started in GSM, but this feature was never commercially available except in Russian, Polish and Bulgarian NMT networks.

All handsets include a colour screen, a digital camera and the capability to send and receive email, SMS and MMS messages.

OTA via SMS optimises the configuration data updates in SIM cards and handsets and enables the distribution of new software updates to mobile phones or provisioning handsets with the necessary settings with which to access services such as WAP or MMS.