Merriam-Webster has teamed up with mobile search provider AskMeNow to launch a mobile dictionary service. Users can access the content by texting a message to ASKME (using the short code 27563). In addition to plain-vanilla mobile search, the service encourages a degree of user interaction by allowing mobile access to Merriam-Webster’s Web offers, including Word of the Day, which builds users’ vocabulary one day at a time, and Open Dictionary, which allows users to create and submit their own new words and definitions, all free of charge. In addition to the content provided by Merriam-Webster, AskMeNow provides users direct answers on topics including Weather, Directions, Sports Scores, Flights & Hotels, Horoscopes, Stock Quotes, Movie Times & Theatres, News, and Trivia. Press release.
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