Obama election causes text-message surge
President-elect Barack Obama reached out to his wireless supporters, showing the power of mobile when he announced Joe Biden as his running mate through a text message and email campaign in July. On Tuesday night, more than one billion mobile users returned the favor. In the 10 minutes immediately following the official announcement that Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, the volume of text messages sent surged to more than three times the normal volume for that time of day, according to Sybase 365, a subsidiary of mobile messaging service provider Sybase. more
