In crossover land, she says, "you're dealing with artists who find it very hard to communicate text or emotion, so you have to give them songs which are indestructible.
When you communicate text, you can't convey the intent behind your words using facial or tonal cues.
And although the Unicode Consortium — which standardizes how computers communicate text and agrees upon new emoji — it an international group, most of its voting members are affiliated with American companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Oracle, and IBM.
Up to 43.4% reported having people who could receive and communicate text messages to them.
But communicating by text message seems to give many of them the type of distance they need to overcome their inhibitions.
TRACKING THE TORCH When the Olympic torch was carried through San Francisco last week, protestors supporting individual rights in Tibet tracked the location of the torch by communicating with text messages over cellphones.
Although the panel did not make specific recommendations to consumers, a representative did note that using a hands-free headset during a conversation or communicating via text message would be options for lowering radio frequency exposure.
A voice – rather than say, communicating by text – seems to be key, provided it has the correct intonation.
Nearly two decades ago, Shigetaka Kurita was given the task of designing simple pictographs that could replace Japanese words for the growing number of cellphone users communicating with text messages.
Communicating via text, Cruz had arranged to meet a woman who would take her to a clinic for an illegal abortion, which would cost about $1,900.
