Text Messaging For Groups...
While this Wired News article seems fairly breathless about the ability to send text messages to groups, it seems odd that it hasn't been created before. While the service is called TxtMob, in a bit of an homage to the whole SmartMob concept, and appears to be focused on the ability of protesters to better organize via text messaging, all it really does is take the concept of email groups and moves it to text messaging.
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