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Business Definition for: SMS

  • short messaging service: the system used to send text messages via cellphone networks

Wiktionary Definition for: SMS

  • Short Message Service, a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system.
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  • A text message sent on a cell phone.
  • To send a message on a cell phone.
  • Ex: ''I SMSed him and asked why he is late.''
  • To exchange messages, chat, on a cell phone.
  • Ex: ''I can't talk to her, she is too busy SMSing her friends.''
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Additional Resources

SMS Gets More Personal for Telecom Serbia with Comverse SMS Personal and SMS Router
WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced that Telecom Serbia, a mobile operator in Serbia, has selected Comverse SMS Personal and SMS Router to add SMS personalization capabilities...
Tags: Comverse Technology Inc., SMS, telecommunications
Research articles 2007-02-07
InfoSpace To Expand Distribution Of SMS Services In the UK; SMS Services Continue to Grow as Advanced SMS Technology Becomes More Widely Deployed
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: InfoSpace Inc., SMS
Research articles 2002-03-20
Macrovision Previews Comprehensive Guide to AdminStudio SMS Edition to Help Enterprises Maximize the Value of Microsoft Systems Management Server -SMS-
LAS VEGAS -- Authored by SMS Guru Rod Trent, The Complete Guide to AdminStudio SMS Edition Gets Early Preview at Microsoft Management Summit MMS
Tags: Macrovision Corp., Microsoft Corp., server, SMS
Research articles 2005-04-19
SMS Learns How To Play the Game
Systems Management Specialists of Santa Ana says it's learned its lesson - if it wants to "play" the contract game with Orange County government, it had better "pay." So SMS, the one-time political naif, has retained Anaheim Mayor Tom Daly as a consultant and begun funneling campaign contributions to sympathetic...
Tags: game, Lockheed Martin Corp., SMS
Research articles 1998-04-13
Guidance for Developing and Auditing a Formal Safety Management System
There is no recognized standard in aviation for defining a typical Safety Management System SMS. So it has been necessary to adapt best practice from other industries in order to provide guidelines for those parts of the aviation industry that wish to implement a formal SMS. SRG has drawn up...
Tags: Management, Strategy, SRG, Auditing, Civil Aviation Authority
White papers 2002-10-01
QuoteMedia Partners with SMS.ac to Offer SMS Stock Quotes to Millions of Mobile Phone Users
PHOENIX -- QuoteMedia, Inc. (OTCBB:QMCI) announced today a partnership with SMS.ac, the world's largest community of mobile phone users, to power SMS.ac's new financial channel with detailed stock quotes and market information via Short Message Service SMS text messaging. This alliance allows unprecedented global coverage, with users in more than...
Tags: cell phone, financial, mobile, phone, SMS, stock
Research articles 2005-05-18
Red Oxygen Teams Up With Its Customers and Oxfam Australia to Text (SMS) Away Poverty and Social Injustice
Instead of sending out the standard Christmas card greeting, Red Oxygen is encouraging its global customer base to text SMS their family, friends and colleagues with Red Oxygen's Outlook SMS and Notes SMS software clients. Even if they are away from their computers on Christmas, they can still schedule...
Tags: Oxygen, SMS, team
Research articles 2006-12-11
FullArmor Adds Endpoint Policy Capabilities to Microsoft Systems Management Server; GPAnywhere for SMS Enables Administrators to Create and Deliver Group Policy Settings using SMS
SAN DIEGO -- FullArmor, the leader in enterprise policy management, today announced GPAnywhere for SMS, which enables organizations to use Microsoft Systems Management Server SMS 2003 to define and apply Group Policy settings on endpoints outside of Active Directory. In addition, GP Anywhere for SMS simplifies the deployment of Active...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., policy setting, server, SMS
Research articles 2006-04-25
InfoSpace Powers Verizon Wireless Puerto Rico's Launch of WAP, SMS and Speech-Enabled Wireless Data Services; Services Include Two-Way SMS and Speech-Enabled SMS Alerts
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: data service, InfoSpace Inc., SMS, Verizon Wireless, WAP, wireless, wireless data service
Research articles 2002-05-16
McAfee Introduces SaberTools SMS; First Comprehensive Suite to Extend Functionality of Microsoft Systems Management Server; SaberTools SMS Provides Metering, Menuing, and Automated Software Distribution Script Generation Not Found in Microsoft's SMS
SANTA CLARA, Calif--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 2, 1996--McAfee (Nasdaq: MCAF) today announced SaberTools SMS, a suite of Windows desktop management utilities designed to enhance the native functionality of Microsoft's Systems Management Server SMS. Systems Management Server is Microsoft's popular enterprise desktop management suite.
Tags: McAfee Inc., Microsoft Corp., server, SMS, software
Research articles 1996-12-02
Syniverse and Sybase 365 Together Expand International SMS Connectivity
Agreement Opens Two-Way SMS Messaging To Over 2.4 Billion Mobile Subscribers Worldwide
Tags: SMS, Sybase Inc.
Research articles 2008-06-03
MTNL Launches Convergent Voice SMS From Kirusa
MTNL, the Government owned fixed line and mobile operator in India, with operations in Delhi and Mumbai, today launched the world's first "Convergent" Voice SMS service for its fixed and mobile subscribers. The Convergent Voice SMS Service is based upon the patented "Voice SMS" technology from Kirusa, a leading mobile...
Tags: mobile, SMS
Research articles 2007-05-22
TCS Awarded Patent for its Innovative SMS Forwarding Feature; 'Bunny Hop' Eliminates Dropped Messages During an SMS Transition
Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers
Tags: SMS, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Research articles 2001-04-12
Twitter Parasites Swoop Desperately On SMS Gap
There seems to be a whole mini business segment emerging in powering Twitter SMS messages where Twitter itself can't. San Francisco-based web-SMS outfit 3Jam is the latest to make a play for users disgruntled by Twitter's decision last week to abandon SMS message delivery for those outside US, Canada...
Tags: SMS, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Robert Andrews
News items 2008-08-20
Altiris Extends Native SMS Integration with Web-based Products for Mobile Users, UNIX Clients and New Helpdesk Suite for SMS
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: Altiris Inc., help desk, mobile, SMS, Unix, Web
Research articles 2001-09-05
TCS and Mobileway Form Strategic Partnership to Create Global Commercial SMS Network; SMS and Premium Content will be Targeted at Fertile North American Market
Business Editors
Tags: network, SMS, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Research articles 2002-07-29
Send SMS Via Outlook
Now you can cut back on expensive mobile calls to employees on-the-road by sending SMS messages to their mobiles - using Outlook! This fantastic paid-service lets you send Instant SMS messages from Microsoft Outlook 2003 to any mobile phone using your personal address book, Global Address List GAL or direct...
Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Office Suites, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Enterprise Software, Marketing, SMS, Microsoft Corp., Mobile, Telephony, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Microsoft Outlook
White papers
American Library Association Adopts CellTrust Mobile Messaging for SMS-Based Emergency Notification
More Than 2,500 ALA Conference Attendees Subscribe to Severe Weather SMS Alert Service
Tags: American Library Association, SMS
Research articles 2007-05-02
DiGi Expands SMS Capacity to Handle Phenomenal Traffic Growth; CMG Facilitates Exponential SMS Growth in Malaysia
Business/Technology Editors
Tags: SMS
Research articles 2001-12-20
Telefonica Selects SMS to Support Worldwide Operations; SMS to Provide Application Development and Network Management Services to Major Telecommunications Firm
SANTA ANA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 2, 1999--
Tags: application development, network, network management, SMS, telecommunications, Telefonica
Research articles 1999-06-02
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