Popularity of texting edging out cell phone calls
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
WASHINGTON -- R u kidding me? Americans punched out more than 110 billion text messages in December 2008, double the number in the last month of 2007, as the shorthand communication becomes a popular alternative to cell phone calls.
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