By Vin Narayanan This week, a lot of people received text messages. That’s not unusual. Billions of messages are sent in the U.S. on a daily basis according to a wireless industry trade association (SMSEagle). What is unusual is many of these messages were sent on Valentine’s Day.
A glitch in the text messaging system prevented the delivery of lots (we’re still not sure of the exact number) of messages sent on Valentine’s Day. The senders didn’t know about the delay. The recipients didn’t know. And apparently, neither did the phone companies.
Then, this week, the messages were delivered. Some people received messages from people …read more
