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New app helps parents decode their kids' text messages

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Jan 25 2013 | 4:04 AM IST

TextGenie, a new app created by a UK-based software solutions company, DCML deciphers text language and slang from incoming SMS messages and translates them into plain English for confused parents, The Telegraph reported.

Research by DCML claimed that 84 per cent of parents with teenagers admit to receiving text messages from their children which they simply do not understand.

Parents often find messages littered with abbreviations and text speak hard to understand

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First Published: Aug 26 2012 | 4:50 PM IST

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