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Text messages help cholera fight in Mozambique As Mozambique struggles to recover from the worst flooding in more than a decade, aid agencies are pioneering the use of mobile phones to distribute aid and, they hope, cut the cost of logistics in disaster zones.

21 февраля 2013

Venezuelan officials send mixed messages on Chavez Officials sent mixed signals Sunday about the condition of cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, fueling growing political uncertainty in the oil-rich country.

14 января 2013

Facebook to charge for some message delivery Facebook on Thursday began testing the feasibility of charging to guarantee that messages from strangers make it into inboxes of intended recipients at the social network.

21 декабря 2012

Pope ministers to Twitter flock Pope Benedict XVI is due to send out his first, much-anticipated Twitter message on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of followers already signed up to receive the tweet.

12 декабря 2012

Sender of first text message 'amazed' 20 years on The British software engineer who sent the world's first text message 20 years ago said on Monday that he is amazed at how the technology has developed.

04 декабря 2012

Japan mini-satellite to flash code from space A palm-sized Japanese satellite in orbit around Earth will flash a Morse code message that will be visible around the world from next month.

05 октября 2012

Mobile phones help bolster Uganda's fight against HIV Stella Nayiga clutches her mobile phone as she describes the messages that she received punctually every morning and evening for over a year, reminding her to take her antiretroviral (ARV) drugs regularly.

26 июля 2012