Celebrities such as Didier Drogba, a football player in Sub-Sahran Africa, dispatches text messages millions of subscribers communicating "its 9pm - are you and your family safely sleeping under your net?" to increase preventative actions against Malaria.
At the time of the quake, Anderson rushed to Haiti, by way of Santo Domingo, and sent dispatches by text message and e-mail to report on the scene.
We haven't had internet access in about a week – that's why I had to send this dispatch via text message.
We haven't had internet access in about a week that's why I had to send this dispatch via text message.
The authorities tried to prevent it, sending out text messages urging people not to participate, then dispatching security forces armed with machine guns and hammers to force open the shutters of those who did.
Meanwhile, as Washington City Paper reports, Occupy DC protester Adrian Parsons -- who had been recently engaged in a hunger strike for D.C. voting rights -- left for New Hampshire a few days ago and was "[s]crambling to meet the author of the DC voting rights resolution," according to a text message dispatched en route on Interstate 93.
Politicians wanting to send bulk campaign text messages have to wait at least 48 hours before dispatch in order for their mobile service operators to vet the content and reject anything they believe could be inciting.
Zijlstra J A, Stieglis R, Riedijk F et al. Lay rescuers with AEDs, alerted by text messages, contribute to early defibrillation in a Dutch out-of-hospital cardiac arrest dispatch system.
At the top of the food chain, there are the bigs like FedEx and UPS operating under some semblance of technological advancement, but then there are the thousands of smaller businesses lugging around antique devices, dispatching via two-way radios, text messaging, and voice calls.
