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Randall Stross has just published a sobering article in The New York Times about how the four major US wireless carriers don’t want anyone to know the actual cost structure of text message services to avoid public outrage over the doubling of a-la-carte per-message fees over the last three years. The truth [...]

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The digital interactive marketplace will continue to take shape and even make strides in 2009. IPG Emerging Media Labs identifies five trend areas to watch next year, related to browsers, conversation, transmission, retail and consumer tech.
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The latest scourge on the Republic, we are told, would be people who flagrantly, openly and notoriously — are you ready? — text message while they are walking. These textwalkers stride like the undead, it is said, head down, smacking into light poles, other people and occasionally even splattering themselves against oncoming traffic.
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