China’s mobile phone owners are the world’s most avid senders of short text messages. Like most owners of a cell phone, my device often buzzes to the arrival of new text messages. But an increasing number of those messages are... ...full story at Tim Johnson
from Tim Johnson on Tue, Jan 08 2008
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