Sentences with phrase «than text messaging»

«Obsession with video games and Internet pornography is a closer parallel to what we see with substance use than text messaging or using an app,» he told TechNewsWorld.

Handing out business cards for his mobile massage therapy practice, Peer says, «I won't thumb type more than a text message, but with this keyboard and this phone, I can do 90 percent of what I do on my laptop.»

With all the emails that circulate, sometimes it would be nice to send a recorded message rather than a text message.

That way when you're on the home screen, you can have an email open and sent faster than a text message or BBM (maybe not BBM).

This means, for example, that a retailer can send beautiful images of their products, rather than a text message, and even let the customer select and buy something, all without leaving the messaging app.

Coinbase's SMS wallet is currently the only service that allows users in any country to do everything they need to do with Bitcoin with nothing more than a text message interface; the closest alternatives are the Bitcoin sending service Coinapult and the yet - to - be-released SMS wallet Kipochi.

Instead the web version of WhatsApp will use a method similar to Telegram, using your phone to verify your identity, but with QR codes rather than text messages.

This means, for example, that a retailer can send beautiful images to their products, rather than a text message, and even let the customer select and buy something, all without leaving the messaging app.

«This means, for example, that a retailer can send beautiful images of their products, rather than a text message, and even let the customer select and buy something, all without leaving the messaging app,» as stated by Google.

Not exact matches

If you want to reach local customers and keep them coming back to your business, text - message marketing is one of the most effective strategies for doing so: While email marketing messages are opened by less than 20 percent of recipients, text message ads are typically viewed by at least 95 percent of recipients, according to Mashable.

Apple's proposed solution is both incredibly simple and incredibly clever: People like to leave voicemails (it's often quicker to orally deliver your information than it is to type it in a text message).

In this modern age, that can be taken quite literally — rather than lovers giving each other paper cards that say stuff like «I Choo - Choo - Choose You,» people today are more prone to express their love electronically through various means including e-mail, text messages and social media.

Entire books have explained how an obsessive compulsion to read text messages and check your Twitter status have created zombies who can't really participate in discussions and can't look you in the eye for more than a second.

Ivey Business School professor JP Vergne says consumers still read text messages — studies suggest more than 90 % are opened within minutes.

It was a lot faster than opening up a text message, going and taking a picture or choosing it from the gallery, uploading it — which took a really really long time — and then sending it to your friend.

What stands out about the app — other than the lack of a keyboard — is that it's able to instantly (and for the most part, accurately) transcribe your voice messages to emojis and text.

It now has 800 million users worldwide, and it's become much more than a way to send text messages to friends.

That sparked a flurry of dealmaking in messaging, as smartphone users worldwide increasingly use Web - based services to communicate rather than paying for text messaging.

No different than sending a text message to your friend, you can ask a financial question within Betterment's app.

In addition to offering free text messaging and phone and video calls, Vodi allows users to make airtime top - up payments to more than 390 mobile phone service providers in 135 countries.

Lead nurturing best practice # 5: Draft the messages to fit your brand and AI persona Text - based messages look a lot more personal than messages with fancy layouts and graphics.

I didn't catch how this makes the Hebrew bible unique or more inspired than all other religious / spiritual texts, but it doesn't matter, the message is what matters.

In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings, in all times and places, who can in the full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the text.

Rather than sift the Scripture according to the general principle of its applicability to salvation, wouldn't it be better to inquire of each text what was its intended message?

Usually, this phase is marked by extended gaps between text messages, a whole lot of «Oh, lol» responses to pretty much anything you say and the most telling sign of all, the avoidance of saying any more than they absolutely have to because having one - on - one time means you may have to have that conversation you're both avoiding.

Mormon volunteers in Ghana, for example, arranged for 1.5 million text messages to be sent to fellow citizens in support of the country's launch of vaccines against pneumonia and rotavirus, two diseases that together claim the lives of more than 2 million children around the world every year.

We've been seeing quite a few reasons to just wait to send that text message till after you park the car, but perhaps none that sound quite so much like a bad movie plot than this story from Maryland, where a 25 - year - old woman was distracted by texting and ran her car off the road, clipped a tree and was propelled 60 feet into a lake.

Sometimes dirty talking over a text message is way easier than doing it live in person.

But the truth is in this day and age where people are inundated with text messages, social media, nontraditional work schedules, hundreds of channels on television and increased financial demands — more parents than ever are struggling to feel truly connected to their child.

Even without a food fight, you're more likely to discover what makes your child laugh or cry over a family meal than you are through a short text message that you had to learn how to decipher before you even knew what it meant.

Though it has a little more of a cookie - cutter feel than 64forSuu.org, it incorporates the right features (email signup, social networking links, video, a blog, and even text - message alerts) and definitely gets the job done.

On other fronts, campaign's media consultant can produce online video clips, though they'll have to adapt to a very different world than that of campaign commercials, and field organizers can embrace Facebook and other social networks as well as cell phones and text messaging.

SMS lists are campaign gold, since people open text messages at a much higher rate than emails.

When you include use of smartphones, text messaging and video, more than 90 % of Americans are within reach of online communications that can be used for organizing.

They found that they got more bang for the buck with SMS than with emails, since recipients were much less likely to ignore a text message (an effect that may diminish as text messages» novelty fades).

«Assemblyman Lopez has never sent an email and over the last five years averaged fewer than 10 text messages a year to his family, friends, and workers.

In 2011, Cuomo issued a message of necessity so that state lawmakers could vote on a bill reconfiguring the state income tax code less than two hours after its text had been made public.

11201 there are more than a hand full and I use the same text to send a message you keep calling it «SPAM» because you do not like the message to bad.

«It's unfortunate that this matter is being made a media issue because my successor has my telephone number and could have called me for any clarification or even sent me a text message rather than addressing the media on an issue well documented in my handover notes.»

Manchester United forward, Alexis Sanchez, has said he sent Arsene Wenger a text message rather than post a tribute on social media, after the Frenchman announced...

The feds had failed to timely turn over as evidence for more 90 hours of phone calls — some of which were in Yiddish and yet to be translated — and more than 3,100 text messages from a wire - wearing government witness, crooked Rockland County developer Moses Stern.

And while you might be comfortable with using your face as a password, increasingly there is more at stake than a few text messages.

The Web site now gets more than 10,000 hits per year, and 13,000 text messages with reports on spore levels went out to around 3000 farmers last year.

But I know you have your very good reasons for being among the 98 percent of the population that shuns public transportation: • You can read, check email, send text messages, or catch a few winks while you're swerving into oncoming traffic and pedestrians • You have built - in motivation for stopping at Wendy's for celebration takeout, given that you haven't had to walk more than nine consecutive steps the entire day • You feel good about the copious burning of hydrocarbons, which is creating valuable new beachfront property • You get to trade hand gestures and occasional gunfire with fellow traffic jammers.

A little more than 34 percent of the participants said they sent and received 100 or more text messages each day.

When they receive texts, the temptation to check their texts and send messages back is much greater than the urge to pay attention to their present situation.

Glass» HUD function required only a change in eye direction to read and respond to text messages, rather than the more disruptive change in head and body posture associated with smartphones.

Text messages that end with a period are perceived to be less sincere than messages that do not, according to newly published research from Binghamton University.

Whereas the American Red Cross proved that new technologies can efficiently raise money for humanitarian assistance, generating more than $ 5 million via text message donations in the 48 hours following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the FBI has warned that social media can also be a lucrative platform for scam artists that crop up in the wake of tragedy.

More than half of teenagers report consuming and producing text messages every night just before bed compared to only 15 percent of those in their 30s and 5 percent of the baby boomers.