Neowin News Feed for: Text

Happy Birthday! The SMS turns 20

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:43:47 +0000

Lots can change in 20 years in the technology space. 20 years ago Windows 95 was in its design and planning stages and in December of the same year the first SMS, or text, was born in the UK. Read more...

Review: Matias Tactile Pro 3.0

Paul Ferson — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:20:11 +0100

Paul Ferson takes a look at the Matias Corporation's Tactile Pro keyboard; a mechanical keyboard aiming to improve on the formula Apple showed the world in 1987, as well as adding new touches. Read more...

SwiftKey 3 leaves beta today

Paul Ferson — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:41:16 +0100

One of Android's most popular keyboards has been updated today, exiting from its ongoing beta phase and entering as the new standard version. Read more...

CintaNotes 1.6.1

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:17:14 +0100

CintaNotes is a small and easy to use personal note management application. It is designed to be your indispensable assistant in the daily task of collecting numerous pieces of information, whatever Read more...

T-Mobile announces Full Monty plans: unlimited everything

Andy Weir — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:21:32 +0000

T-Mobile's new price plans offer unlimited voice calls, text messages and mobile data, including free tethering. But will these tariffs spread from the UK to Europe and the US - and is there a catch? Read more...

Cell Phone companies holding donations to Haiti

Mitchell LeBlanc — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:56:56 +0000

Many people have opted for the ease of donating via text messages to various charities on the ground in Haiti. Unfortunately, recent reports indicate that cell phone companies will probably be holding the funds allocated... Read more...

Scammers taking advantage of the Haiti tragedy

Mitchell LeBlanc — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:14:03 +0000

We've all seen the messages on Facebook urging us to lend a hand in the Haiti crisis by simply sending a text message. The potential trouble here is that while one of your closest friends... Read more...

Teen sends 10,000 texts with no messaging plan

Brad Sams — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:41:55 +0100

It's not uncommon for teenagers to have cell phones as it seems nearly everyone has one these days. When a loving parent gave his teenage daughter a cell phone he thought was doing the... Read more...

The truth behind the cost of text messaging

Brad Sams — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:53:06 +0000

What are you currently paying for your text messaging? Is it 20 or 25 cents or are you one of the millions of users who buy a text messaging package with your phone plan... Read more...

Alltel Feature Turns Voicemail to Text

Slimy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:22:01 +0000

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Alltel Corp. is unveiling a new feature that uses voice-recognition software to allow wireless phone customers to read their voicemail messages as text messages. Monthly fees for the Voice2TXT service start at $4.99, and users... Read more...

London's 'SatLav' Lets You Text For a Bathroom Location

Sagittarius — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:26:21 +0000

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If you've ever found yourself in London, unable to find a toilet and furiously hopping around to contain the yellow flood whose release feels imminent, I have good news: Westminster City Council, which covers London's... Read more...

Xerox tool analyzes text to improve search results

Slimy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:07:58 +0100

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Xerox researchers have developed a search tool, dubbed FactSpotter, that analyzes the underlying grammar of a text in order to infer additional information, such as whether ambiguous words are being used as nouns or verbs,... Read more...

Text bug blights Trillian

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:14:51 +0100

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Users of the popular Trillian instant messaging client need to update their software following the discovery of a serious security bug. The multi-protocol chat application from Cerulean Studios is subject to a heap overflow vulnerability... Read more...

Ap Text To PDF 2.2

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:02:43 +0000

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Ap Text To PDF ( text2pdf ,txt2pdf ) is a program to convert ASCII texts into PDF format with a minimum loss of formatting information. Support command line, batch convert, encryption, page orientation, font... Read more...

Yahoo Announces Text Message Mobile Web Search

malebolgia — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:39:22 +0100

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Yahoo Inc. is rolling out a service that lets users in the United States tap the Internet media giant's Web search using text messaging, matching a service now offered by rival Google Inc. Yahoo also... Read more...

MSN Messenger 7.0 Mobile Text Messaging Beta Takes Off

Steven Parker — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:05:04 +0000

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Thanks DJ Prem for the heads up on this. The Microsoft Beta Team have opened a new service for testing in the United States, which allows an MSN user to send a text... Read more...

New Year Sets New Text Record

dbfriends — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:38:17 +0000

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More text messages were sent last weekend to usher in 2005 than ever before in Britain - and the growth of SMS is expected to continue over the coming year. In the first 24 hours... Read more...

Text file virus - Potential concerns or another paranoia?

configure — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:17:23 +0100

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Neowin member jorgeivan2k3 has posted about an Australian programmer, Geoff Vass, who believes that text files are no longer harmless. "So I had an email conversation with the fellas at secure@microsoft.com and they... Read more...

Office 2003 SP1 ADMs, OPAs, and Explain Text update

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:02:11 +0100

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To support changes to Office 2003 SP1, additions and corrections to policies for administrative support of Office in corporate settings using Active Directory and Group Policy. This update includes explain text in the form of... Read more...

Text safety service targets teen party posse

Darren Bolton — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:56:44 +0100

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A new service has been set up to pass on people's whereabouts in case they go missing. Safetytext users can notify others of their whereabouts by sending a text message to a preset... Read more...