By the time Barack Obama is ready to announce his vice presidential pick with a text message will anyone believe his VP choice? WIS10 reports.

In November 2007, a twin-engine 30-year-old Piper aircraft lost all electrical power on board shortly after departing from Kerry airport, Ireland for a flight to Jersey. Without any electrical power, the pilot was unable to use his radio to contact air traffic control. He was briefly able to re-establish contact with the tower using his cell phone, but that was also disrupted.

This isn't a new idea (for example, China used text messages to warn citizens about Typhoon Kaemi in 2006), nor is the wrangling around it in the U.S. new, but on Wednesday an "emergency alert via SMS" plan finally received approval by regulators.

Text messaging for the Hard of Hearing is used in Northumbria

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced a new text messaging program that will support the USO — and U.S. military families — with free prepaid phone cards.

Put on your dancing shoes and grab a wireless handset. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today the company is teaming with ABC Television network's hit program "Dancing With the Stars" to offer viewers — for the first time — a chance to vote for their favorite couple via text messaging.

Vyke Pro is an easily downloadable programme that is compatible with all recent Java enabled handsets. It offers UK mobile users the opportunity to drastically reduce the exorbitant charges they are currently paying for conventional text messaging by using its smart message routing technology. This allows Vyke Pro users to send free text messages to other Vyke Pro users around the world, or to send normal text messages to non Vyke Pro users for as little as 1p per message.

Yahoo! Mail Introduces First Free Real-Time Text Messaging Service to Mobile Phone Numbers From a Major Web Mail Provider, in Four Global Markets(1)