I’m trying to decide when our lives became controlled by beeps. When I was growing up, I don’t remember anything that beeped. Now I can’t think of anything that doesn’t. And frankly, it’s starting to ...

And so it has come, with Telstra predicting “76 million text messages to ‘beep’ in the New Year.” Telstra says that “up to” 1,000 text messages will be sent per second welcoming in 2009 for a total of ...

We're surrounded by beeps. From reversing vehicles to supermarket checkouts to trains, they punctuate our day. But what's the story behind them? The word "beep" is not very old. The onomatopoeic ...

As 2008 ends and 2009 begins, Australians will go text message crazy sending each other such a frenzy of celebratory SMS messages that phones will likely be going "beep beep" even faster than the Road ...