Tag: TEXT-MESSAGING

Do you feel lost when you read abbreviations and acronyms on Twitter and other web sites because you have no idea what PMIGBOM* stands for? DTXTR can help. While this site from LG is designed with a tongue-in-cheek purpose of helping parents translate the text messages their teenage kids are sending, it can also be a helfpul guide for common abbreviations found on internet chat rooms, forums and ...

Text messages are all well and good, but the kids these days, they like graphics. So when Zlango launched a service to offer enhanced emoticons and icons for mobile phone and web use, we were suitably impressed. The company came up with a hieroglyphic-like "language," complete with 200 different icons, some of which hold multiple meanings. While it's not a complete language, you can convey ...