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[ PRIVACY Forum ] How Google Could Kill SMS Text Messaging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Fri Jun 10 17:07:39 2011
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:48:38 -0700
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How Google Could Kill SMS Text Messaging
http://j.mp/lyVl4o (This message on Google Buzz)
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http://j.mp/ji5Yol (Connected Planet)
"If Google can take the functionality of iMessage and extend it to all
smartphones, it would strike a huge blow against SMS, not mention
iMessage. If it can extend all or some of that functionality down to
feature and talk and text phones, then Google could kill SMS as we
know it."
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Good. Kill it. Do it now. Die SMS, Die!
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
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