1.  Cupertino, Calif.-based GolfWeb and GolfData Web feature extensive bulletin boards, where golfers can message each other from around the world.

2.  Despite the difficulty of typing on small cell phone keyboards, simple applications like text messaging have proven hugely successful over the last year, most notably among teen-agers.

3.  DANCE-BALLROOM (State College, Pa.) _ The e-mail messages arrived first in a trickle, then in a flood.

4.  Digital, besides its expertise in messaging, is skilled at systems integration _ the art of making various types of computer systems work smoothly together.

5.  Discopro.com is free for consumers and available to anyone with an alphanumeric pager or a digital cell phone that has text messaging.

6.  Dixon, now a director at StorageNetworks Inc. in Waltham, Mass., didn't return messages seeking comment.

7.  Director Luis Mandoki can let things get pretty blowsy in his romances ("Message in a Bottle," "When a Man Loves a Woman").

8.  Don't let anyone tell you that two-way wireless messaging is a new technology _ using smoke signals, American Indians once sent instant messages to colleagues miles away.

9.  Dr. Seremtis estimates she gets about 12 computer messages from patients every day, some brief, clinical updates, others more emotionally intense.

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