About short message service (SMS), I would point out that it was an add-on to the Global System for Mobility (GSM) cellular standard and it took off like hotcakes in Japan. There is also EMS, extended message service, that sends sound bytes and stuff like that. And there is multimedia message service (MMS) that can send images. MMS phones are the ones that can point at something and e-mail a picture, I'm told. Japanese teenagers may have shortened thumbs from sending so many short messages on their cell phones.

-----Original Message----- From: Mark Warschauer [mailto:markw@uci.edu] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:37 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] SMS?

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Where do you live, Mark ?

Southern California.

SMS is not as prevalent here as in Europe, and apparently neither is the term (though I'm sure people more astute than I are familiar with it). Mark

Mark Warschauer Vice Chair, Department of Education Assistant Professor of Education and of Information & Computer Science University of California, Irvine tel: 949: 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw

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