Text messages revenue

The first text message ever sent was on December 3, 1992. On this historic date, British engineer Neil Papworth of Sema Group sent an early "MERRY CHRISTMAS" message from his computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone on Jarvis's mobile phone.

An iPhone now has more processing power than the North American Air Defence Command did in 1965.

More than 1,000 cell phones are activated each minute. Yes, each minute of every day.