Just like on an iPhone, Siri can change the music, send a text, launch an app or provide navigation.
The three BSCS high school biology texts launched in the 1960s are good early examples of this approach.
Utterz, a US-based site that you post to your blog or social network with voice, video, picture, and text, has launched a version of the site for the UK and across 16 other countries.
Instead of launching a fancy-shmancy weather app, the team launched a text and email service where the 'Weather Cat' would deliver the news.
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.
Privately-owned SMS archiving site Treasure My Text is launching a new invite-only beta version with social messaging features.
This also means that you're able to send yourself 'lighter' one-off alerts that felt too heavy to send a text or launch an app.
Text4baby is a text messaging service launched in February 2010 that delivers text messages (http://www.text4baby.org) to pregnant women and new mothers.
Retailer Argos launched "Text and Take Home" and notification services in more than 600 stores in 2006.
A text donation scheme launched in 2011 raised just £3,000 towards event costs.
Instagram launched text filtering for bullying in May, but that could have just pushed trolls to attack people through images.
