31.   If no land line was available, people made cellphone calls or sent text messages with wireless devices.

32.   If your party does answer, the pager service renders your text message into digitized sound.

33.   In Atlanta, AlertAmerica has just announced a service that notifies users of late-breaking news and emergency information from the Associated Press via text message.

34.   Incoming calls ring quietly on passenger earphones or are announced as a text message on in-seat video screens.

35.   In the future, a customer will be able to dictate a letter over the phone and have it sent as an e-mail text message.

36.   Instead of full Internet access with pictures and sound, the phone-based Web browser offers text messages only.

37.   Instead of just beeping someone and leaving a telephone number, you can send text messages.

38.   It then shoots back to your phone a digital text message containing the current price of your five stocks, or the ski report for your favorite mountain.

39.   It was a text message coming by radio, from a flight dispatcher near Chicago.

40.   Lately, these abbreviations are even more common with the popularity of Short Message Service, which lets cell phone users send and receive text messages.