Amid the drama, Roberta Lange, the Nevada Democratic Party chairwoman, received a wave of text messages and voice mails of a kind that is an increasingly routine accompaniment to public life: "Praying to god someone shoots you in the FACE"; "Hey bitch, loved how you broke the system, we know where you live, where you work, where you eat, where your kids go to school.. . .
It is likely that the two-year deadline will lead to a wave of text messages and calls from firms selling leads to these companies.
One day in March, Anthony Melone, Verizon Wireless's chief technology officer, began getting complaints from customers in the Northeast and Midwest about a wave of unsolicited text messages that were flooding its network.
Some Tajik mullahs also dispute the validity of Skype marriages on religious grounds, in a country where a wave of divorces by text message prompted Islamic leaders to issue a fatwa against such annulments.
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning, grabbing your phone off the pile of books you'll never read because you're too busy looking at your phone, and looking at the phone and seeing the wave of texts and alerts and voicemails.
Within minutes, thousands of students found themselves racing for cover, building makeshift barricades against classroom doors that wouldn't lock and arming themselves with anything they could find as information about the gunfire — some of it rumor about a wave of assailants — spread across campus via text messages and social media.
Within minutes, thousands of students found themselves racing for cover, building makeshift barricades against classroom doors that wouldn't lock and arming themselves with anything they could find as information about the gunfire — some of it rumor about a wave of assailants — spread across campus via text messages and social media.
Similarly, e-readers are likely to trigger a wave of innovation in books such as works that mix text and audiovisual content and short-form e-books.
On August 31, a week after the second wave of text messages started appearing and shortly after the messages from the guy who showed up at her residence, Sarah took everything she had to the police.
On August 31, a week after the second wave of text messages started appearing and shortly after the messages from the guy who showed up at her residence, Sarah took everything she had to the RCMP.
A result was a wave of refugees.
