Textonyms Give SMS Addicts a New Language
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A new language is being developed by cell phone-addicted teens based on predictive text.
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Tycho:  Despite what the Mr. Period comics might imply, I think of grammar as somewhat tyrannical, and believe that an obsession with the mechanical perfection of language is at odds with actual communication.  At the same time, I know (generally) how things should be arranged, and so non-standard uses deliver naughty thrills.  There are floating syllables in the recent Twisp & Catsby thing that can only be resolved by a very specific reading, and they project from the phrases in a suggestive way.  I even like trade names:  words that evoke fierce, yet sensitive gladiators or spry androids.
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KUALA LUMPUR: It may be hip and a sign of the times, but the growing trend of circulating text messages on kidnap and abduction cases is making matters hard for police.  Different types of crime require different approaches.
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The new product, dubbed Google SMS, will see mobile phone users send simple queries to the US-only SMS shortcode 46645, which spells &quot;GOOGL&quot; on most phones.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Consumers using standard messaging technology can rest assured that their texts are not stored long term. The sexually explicit text-message chat between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide that came to light used a paging technology more akin to e-mail.
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The complicated etiquette of saying "Get lost" online.
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Mind your language A namedropping MSN Trojan is doing the rounds through MSN Messenger.â¦
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Coming soon to a phone near you: spam, scams and viruses galore. Your text messages, address book and calls could be up for grabs. By Annalee Newitz from Wired magazine.
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Text messages could soon be at the heart of a system to help people cope in the aftermath of disasters.
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Froogle, directories and search clippings by SMS
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Operators charging more than NASA for messaging VoIP provider Vyke has added text messaging to its mobile phone client, enabling its customers to text each other for free and charging just over a penny to text anyone else.â¦
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Europeans are far more likely than Americans to have text-message ads sent to their cellphones, but Americans are far more receptive to them.
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If you thought predictive texting was impressive, you ain&#39;t seen nothing yet. A cellphone is on the way that can predict what you are about to do.
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Gerd Schauffelberger introduces a new package today as a part of his work with the pat-tools group - the patI18n package for internationalization.   In lack of a better idea, I founded a new PAT Package: patI18n. So far this package is just a draft and only exists in the SVN repository. As you might guess, patI18n is an abstraction layer for translating issues. Therefore it provides nearly the same interface as the famous GNU Gettext. Still, the actual translation is done by a chain of modules - this way everything is possible and the design stays open to new ideas.   He talks briefly about how it came to be and how it varies from some of the more traditional language translation tools. You can check out the example on his development environment or just use the snv details provided to grab the latest copy.
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A new Trojan horse sends unauthorized spam to mobile phones via SMS. Called Troj/Delf-HA by security firm Sophos, the malware has only infected a few users of a Russian wireless network, but
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With young Norwegians more likely to send a mobile phone text message than a post card, the postal service Tuesday revealed text message theme stamps in a bid to draw them back to letter writing.