As media called the presidential race on Tuesday, Americans fired off text messages at a record pace. AT&T today reported that in the hour following the announcement, text messaging traffic across its network surged about 44 percent - the highest spike in company history. continued »

Bubble Motion today announced that its service, BubbleTALK, has won the Gold Star Mobile Star Award from MobileVillage for Best Consumer Messaging Service. "The Mobile Star Award confirms Bubble Motion’s position as the global leader in Voice SMS," said Thomas Clayton, CEO of Bubble Motion. continued »

SMS advertising is becoming more popular now, particularly among European culinary and fashion fans. comScore reports that European users preferred receiving SMS advertisements for consumer goods such as food, fashion, restaurants, travel and financial services. continued »

The SMS Chat feature, we reported yesterday was indeed available but was pulled later due to some bugs. Google product manager Leo Dirac has posted the info on Gmail blog, stating that the add-on will be back to the Gmail Labs list in 2 weeks time. continued »

According to Webmonkey, Google has created an experimental feature to enable sms chat between your friends' mobile number and you. The feature will be available for all Gmail users from Thursday evening according to the source. It can be activated through the Labs tab in Gmail settings section. I still can't find the options in my Gmail account, it could be due ... continued »

Synchronica today announced Synchronica SimpleMail, a new consumer push email (CPE) solution that brings mobile email to almost 100 percent of handsets in use today. Synchronica SimpleMail includes 'Email to SMS' and 'Email to MMS' gateways and a client-less solution for WAP/xHTML browser access. continued »

It's time to start exercising your thumbs as LG Electronics launches the LG Mobile World Cup, giving participants a chance to show off the speed and accuracy of their text messaging skills. The competition began in Korea on October 27 and in Brazil closer to the end of the year. One of the competition by LG this year continued »

A new Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging application for BlackBerry phones that permits both personal and business users to send self-destructing text messages and pictures, has been released by BigString Corporation. In addition to providing BigString's self-destructing features to SMS text users, the application also permits sending self-destructing messages to multiple recipients through the application's group feature and sending ... continued »

Mobile phone users can expect the cost of sending text messages from abroad in the EU to be much cheaper next summer. The European Commission today proposed to reduce the price of roaming text messages by 60% as of 1 July 2009. EU citizens travelling in other EU countries should pay no more than €0.11 per SMS compared to the ... continued »

Text messaging is still a big business for the telco players. Guaranteed SMS delivery, for instance, could be a valuable service for the enterprise customers. Mobile messaging operator TynTec today announces a deal to provide high quality message delivery for Corporate SMS provider Red Oxygen. The deal ensures that Red Oxygen's SMS services such as bulk SMS, email-to-SMS, and Microsoft ... continued »