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.

SMS Lübeck was the first German cruiser to be fitted with turbine engines, which were also trialled in torpedo boat S-125.

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.

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.

Some non-Internet forms include telephone, fax, PDA, SMS text messaging, MMS, wireless networks and services, Bluetooth, CCTV, tracking systems, RFID, biometric identification, road traffic management and regulatory enforcement, identity cards, smart cards and other Near Field Communication applications ; polling station technology ( where non-online e-voting is being considered ), TV and radio-based delivery of government services ( e. g., CSMW ), email, online community facilities, newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, online chat, and instant messaging technologies.

Torpedo boats were no longer considered important, and Tirpitz requested transfer, commanding the cruisers SMS Preussen and then SMS Württemberg.

Especially in Germany, Austria and The Netherlands, many banks have adopted this " SMS TAN " service as it is considered very secure.

In this timeline ( 2059 A. D., thirteen years after Macross 7 ), Fire Bomber's music is considered by the rest of the Strategic Military Services ( SMS ) squadron as " oldies ".

Following the suit of SMS, other management schools too have come up with their own fests but it is talentime which is still considered as the benchmark for management fests nationwide.

For mobile phones, while technologies like SMS, MMS and data access were historically usually considered value-added services,

A Flash SMS is a type of text message that appears directly on the main screen without user interaction and is not automatically stored in the inbox.

On 1 October 2003, satellite distribution of the main IRN service switched from SMS and the Intelsat 707 satellite at 1. 0 ° West to Kingston Communications and the Sirius 2 satellite at 4. 8 ° East.

The SMS standard is also used outside of the GSM system ; see the main article for details.

Mobile content via SMS is still the main technology for communication used to send mobile consumers messages, especially simple content such as ringtones and wallpapers.

Because SMS is the main messaging technology used by young people, it is still the most effective way of reaching this target market.

The main product is SMS Gateway, used for integrating mobile messaging in software and IT systems.

# The main duty of an SMSC is to route SMS messages and regulate the process.

SMS, for instance, supports message lengths of 160 characters at most ( using the GSM 03. 38 character set ).

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.

This is much faster than using the ordinary SMS over GSM, whose SMS transmission speed is about 6 to 10 SMS messages per minute.

; Class A: Can be connected to GPRS service and GSM service ( voice, SMS ), using both at the same time.

; Class B: Can be connected to GPRS service and GSM service ( voice, SMS ), but using only one or the other at a given time.

During GSM service ( voice call or SMS ), GPRS service is suspended, and then resumed automatically after the GSM service ( voice call or SMS ) has concluded.

; Class C: Are connected to either GPRS service or GSM service ( voice, SMS ).

SMS as used on modern handsets originated from radio telegraphy in radio memo pagers using standardized phone protocols and later defined as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications ( GSM ) series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters, to and from GSM mobile handsets.

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

Establishing waypoints in real-time and transmitting them via GSM cellular telephone networks using the Short Message Service ( SMS ) is referred to as Gps2sms.

The chairman and CEO of China Mobile said at the GSM Association Mobile Asia Congress in 2009 that MMS in China is now a mature service on par with SMS text messaging.

“ The SMS function is the result of extensive and open international cooperation, and GSM documents prove that it is based on the Franco-German proposal ,” he says.

Kannel also works as an SMS gateway for GSM networks.

Almost all GSM phones can send and receive SMS messages, so this is a way to serve many more clients than just those using WAP.

In February 2010, the GSM Association has announced a pilot program that will allow subscribers to report SMS spam by forwarding it to short code ' 7726 ' which spells " SPAM " on most phones.