Tuesday's launch of the "Text My Bus" service corresponds with the first day of class for Detroit Public Schools and is intended to make travel safer and more convenient for students and other riders.
Alongside the launch of the Text-A-Pro SMS feature, Pro is also launching an integration with Facebook Messenger, letting users send a message to Pro.com to book a task, also with flat-rate pricing.
Quora's library of knowledge has been trapped behind inadequate topic search, but now any keyword generates a list of frequently asked questions and answers about the subject thanks to today's launch of full-text search on iOS and Android, and its web debut in March.
An aggressive campaign was launched, with millions of text messages sent out to remind people to cast their ballots.
In that way it is Yahoo's way to play in the growing world of crowdsourced media, a strategy that AOL's Armstrong is pursuing aggressively with his launch of Seed (for text articles) and recent $36.5 million acquisition of StudioNow (for video).
A BT spokesperson said: "We're sorry we had to postpone the full launch of the next generation text service.
Years later, when aspects of Debauer's life begin to mirror the stray bits of text, he launches an odyssey to find his origins and, concomitantly, the novel's end.
I do most of my reading online, and a few hundred words can take hours to digest a paragraph of text is a launch pad to other places; I find myself falling down YouTube and eBay wormholes, my attention drifting.
This followed the 2010 launch of Facebook Zero, a text-only version of the site with no data charges.
© UNICEF Nepal/2010/Shrestha Youth Representative Ayusha Shrestha, 'Miss University Nepal 2003', addresses participants at the Kathmandu launch of the UNICEF-supported free text message programme.
