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TextExpander 1.2.2 for iOS

Create a library of abbreviation shortcuts

phone texts

ICO hunts down spam text culprits

Some 95 per cent of people find unsolicited texts distressing or annoying

Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger app takes on Apple, BlackBerry and Google+

Application combines texts, chats, emails and Facebook messages in a single stream

China steps up communications clampdown

Mobile users in China banned from sending 'illegal or unhealthy' text messages

SpinVox saga takes a new turn

BBC lobs new claims at voicemail-to-text service

Texting while driving raises crash risk 20-fold

By far the most dangerous activity, say researchers

SMS still the king of mobile data

Developing markets picking up, but lack of data plans hampering progress

Spinvox updates voice-to-text service

Easy to respond, even if you are not a Spinvox subscriber

Council of Europe to rule on data roaming

Viviane Reding expected to finalise rules on SMS roaming charges today

Lenovo taps SMS for laptop security

Text message can lock down 3G-enabled ThinkPads remotely

Train crash may be linked to SMS

Investigators confirm engineer sent message seconds before collision

US Senate questions SMS price hike

100 per cent rise raises suspicions

Pilot lands plane by SMS

Quick thinking controller gets texting

SMS dominates UK mobile data usage

Brits sending 1.5 billion text messages a week

SMS revenues to reach $177bn by 2013

Highest revenue generator across all messaging categories

EU may move to cut SMS costs

Reding said to be preparing texting cuts

Boffin slams 'astronomical' SMS costs

Four times more expensive than receiving data from Hubble

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