The choice is technical, not aesthetic; most mobile-service providers won't carry text messages longer than 160 characters.
It can carry text, but also photos and videos, saving a packet on the extortionate fees charged by operators to send a picture message.
[C2.] Movie Systems for Deaf and Blind Translucent screens that can carry text and images, but can also be seen through, are being introduced as a way to let deaf filmgoers view subtitles that are not visible to other patrons.
Finding the signals requires data, though, and much of the most valuable data is held by private companies, especially mobile phone operators, whose networks carry text messages, digital-cash transactions and location data.
A version of the futuristic displays -- translucent screens that can carry text and images, but can also be seen through -- is being introduced as a way to let deaf filmgoers view subtitles that are not visible to those in the audience able to hear the dialogue and soundtrack.
Apple's new iOS 5 operating-system upgrade for its ubiquitous mobile devices includes a revised Messages app that automatically switches to a 3G or Wi-Fi data network to carry text and multimedia content if it detects that the recipient's device is also running iOS 5.
Meanwhile, the real Wilfred, who carries the text of his lecture with him, has left the conference information in his checked luggage (really?) and can't remember the name of the foundation.
Only three gold coins of Offa's have survived: one is a copy of an Abbasid dinar of 774 and carries Arabic text on one side, with "Offa Rex" on the other side.
Palimpsest, manuscript in roll or codex form carrying a text erased, or partly erased, underneath an apparent additional text.
The proliferation of full-text databases and advances in computer storage capacity have made it possible to carry out text analysis by means of linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge.
