Finland might be the spiritual home of the SMS, but it also proves that this ancient form of communication is going the way of the rune stone. A mere 8.5 million texts were sent over the country’s Sonera network on Christmas Eve, versus 10.9 million on that festive day in 2010. The same trend was spotted on other Finnish networks and also on the other side of the world: Christmas Day texts in Hong Kong were down nearly 14 percent on the year before, and Telstra in Australia experienced a nine percent year-on-year decline over the whole of 2011.
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Did you fire off a bunch of texts this Christmas? Welcome to the museum
Here comes another image of the Motorola DROID 4. 
Earlier this week , you may have noticed that your Verizon Wireless LTE smartphone couldn’t do inconsequential things like update your inbox, or pull up a webpage. This happened once . Then twice 
Verizon says it has fixed the third major outage of 4G services, which affected millions of users across the United States.
That phone on Big Red having problems with data? Apparently you’re not alone, as the carrier appears to be having issues again judging by the metric ton of emails we’ve gotten from you experiencing LTE, and in some cases EV-DO, blackouts across the country. 
