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texting stories: 65 news summaries

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Pols Try to Curb Enthusiasm for Ped-Texting

Illinois bill would make typing while crossing street a misdemeanor

Jul 29, 08 2:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though walking and texting is commonplace for many Americas, experts and politicians are considering whether the increased risk of walking into a mailbox—or oncoming traffic—is worth the convenience. A bill to make the practice illegal is working through the Illinois legislature, the Chicago Tribune reports, with advocates citing... More »

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cell phones • safety • Illinois • texting

product review

A Possible Cure
for BlackBerry Thumbs

Gizmo comes complete with claims about treating geeks' aches

Jul 25, 08 3:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - If your thumbs ache after hours of texting and gaming, a new gadget may be able to whip your digits back into shape. The Xtensor "exercise device" helps geeks strengthen their wrists and hands or rehabilitate injuries, reports Laptop Magazine, but reviewer Joanna Stern acknowledges that she hasn't... More »

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technology • health • cell phones • gaming • reviews • texting • Xtensor

OPINION

Let's Hang Up on the Female Booty Call

Aussie writer blasts trend after hubbie receives steamy text

May 24, 08 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - When her husband got steamy text message from a drunk female colleague, Janine di Giovanni had had enough: "Go back to the male booty call, I say." Marshaling evidence from a big French study and anecdotes from friends, Giovanni writes in Australia's News Network that too many women... More »

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women • sex • sexuality • infidelity • text message • texting

 Yes On Phones,
 No On Talking: Poll 

Passengers would use cell's silent features, don't want neighbor yammering in their ear

May 23, 08 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans want wireless service on airplanes, but not voice calls, PC World reports. A survey finds 60% would use silent features like texting and email, but 74% think that no matter what, conversations shouldn’t be allowed. Americans "don't want to be forced to listen to the conversation... More »

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cell phones • email • privacy • wireless service • texting • airplane • inflight

OMG Gatsby Was a Fraud!

It's no ROFL matter: web-speak, text-talk and even :( are slipping into schoolwork

Apr 24, 08 9:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two-thirds of American teens aren’t keeping their LOLs to themselves: They're turning in papers and lab reports with abbreviations, dropped punctuation, and other informalities inherent to Internet and text-message vocabularies, the AP reports. Kids who write blogs and have Facebook pages are more likely to slip from formality in... More »

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SAT • Facebook • youth • texting • schoolwork

 Parents Get the Text Message 

Apr 11, 08 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moms are leading the charge in taking text messaging beyond the teen set. Adolescents and adults in their forties and fifties are the two most active groups sending texts, the Washington Post reports. In the past two years, texting increased 130% among people 45 to 54, while text-saturated teens saw... More »

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technology • baby boomer • cell phones • parents • text message • texting • cell phone plans • teenager

 Facebook App 'Nose' Where U R 

SNIFF allows users to pinpoint cell phone locations

Apr 3, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Facebook application launching in the UK will put people’s friends on the map—in real time, reports the Times. The Social Network Integrated Friend Finder or ‘Sniff’ app lets users pinpoint a friend’s cell phone down to the nearest 650 feet. Privacy is a priority: users... More »

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cell phones • United Kingdom • Facebook • surveillance • cell phone industry • texting

OMG, Txt Msg Shopping!

Amazon's new service lets consumers buy and compare prices
on the go

Apr 2, 08 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ruling the computer shopping world wasn’t enough for Amazon. Thanks to its new TextBuyIt service, customers can search the retail giant from anywhere… including, just as an example mind you, brick-and-mortar stores. Is Amazon specifically hoping to pluck price-comparing shoppers out of real world aisles? “We think they’... More »

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retail • texting • online shopping • Amazon.com

New York Subpoenas Texting Guru

Messaging coder helped anti-GOP protesters communicate

Mar 31, 08 12:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York lawyers have asked the creator of a mass text-messaging service for records of texts sent during 2004 Republican Convention protests, the New York Times reports. MIT student Tad Hirsch’s TXTmob service was a communication tool for demonstrators and reporters, providing up-to-the-minute data on what was happening where.... More »

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New York City • cell phones • texting • protesters • Republican National Convention

Coming Soon
to Your
Cell: Spam

Users pay for unwanted text messages; 'smishers' fish for info

Mar 10, 08 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - To the dismay of customers and cellphone providers, spammers and even phishers have gone mobile. Researchers predict US consumers will get a record 1.5 billion spam text messages this year, while “smishing” texts try to con recipients into giving up sensitive financial information, reports the Washington Post.... More »

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fraud • cell phones • Verizon • spam • phishing • texting • mobile advertising • smishing

Students Aren't Signing Up for Text Alert Systems

Sense of invincibility, fear of revealing personal data to blame

Feb 28, 08 6:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Campus shootings keep making headlines, and schools are increasingly adopting text message alert systems as a response—but students aren't jumping on the bandwagon, the AP reports. Experts chalk up low enrollment rates to students' sense of invincibility, unwillingness to reveal personal information and the cost of receiving texts. "... More »

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cell phones • Virginia Tech • text message • texting • Northern Illinois University • Virginia Tech shootings • shooting • campus violence • campus shooting • campus security

Cell Carriers Roll Out Unlimited Calls for $100/Month

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile get with the program

Feb 20, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Cell phone users tired of rationing their minutes have a new alternative—unlimited calling plans for $99.99 a month. Verizon Wireless yesterday introduced a nationwide plan with no domestic roaming or long-distance fees, AP reports. AT&T quickly announced a matching plan, and T-Mobile execs say they’ll unveil... More »

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cell phones • Verizon • cell phone industry • Sprint • texting • AT&T • T-Mobile • cell phone plans • unlimited calling plans

Saucy Texts Could Sink Detroit Mayor

14,000 messages contradict sworn testimony denying affair

Jan 25, 08 2:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's continuing administration looks doubtful after the emergence of over 14,000 racy text messages between him and his chief of staff. Kilpatrick and his aide, both married during their steamy affair, testified under oath last year that they weren't sexually involved with one another. They were... More »

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Detroit • mayor • texting • Kwame Kilpatrick

NCAA Upholds Ban on Texting Recruits

Move to override derided rule finds little support

Jan 13, 08 1:37 PM CST
(Newser) - The NCAA has upheld its ban against coaches text messaging high school prospects as a means of recruitment, ESPN.com reports. Though the rule was criticized by coaches and athletic directors when it was passed last year, the motion to overturn barely got enough support to bring the issue... More »

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Division I • NCAA • high school sports • recruiting • texting

Colleges Turn to New Media to Recruit Students

Recruiters using blogs, social networking, even text messages

Jan 7, 08 4:35 PM CST
(Newser) - If MySpace and Facebook are where the high school kids are, then that’s where college recruiters are headed. Schools competing for today’s tech-savvy teens are reaching out to them through podcasts, online videos, virtual campus tours, live chats, blogs, and social networking profiles, reports the Boston Globe—... More »

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social networking • college admissions • blogging • colleges and universities • texting • prospective student • admissions officers • IMs • virtual campus tours • podcasts

Campaign for Young Voters:
Vote 4 Me! Pls?

Candidates employ new technology to reach youth

Dec 24, 07 10:17 AM CST
(Newser) - New technology has given presidential hopefuls a host of new ways to transmit the "Vote For Me" message, McClatchy reports. Campaigners are using social networking sites, YouTube videos, instant messaging, and even text messaging in a bid to gain an edge with young voters. But their target audience seems... More »

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technology • YouTube • instant messaging • campaign • telecommunications • texting • Election 2008

UK Slaps Chatty Drivers With Jail

Texting, tinkering with gadgets could net 2 years in the pokey

Dec 20, 07 12:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Yakking on the phone while behind the wheel could fetch you a little quality time behind bars in the UK, reports the Daily Telegraph. A new law rewards chatty driving—or texting, or tinkering with a GPS unit or MP3 player— with jail terms of up to two years. The... More »

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cell phones • United Kingdom • mp3 • GPS • texting • driver distraction

Cell Bills Trump Land Line Charges for 1st Time

Americans have 250M mobiles, 170M home lines

Dec 18, 07 4:45 PM CST
(Newser) - US households racked up bigger cellphone than land line bills in 2007 for the first time ever, analysts say. Only 6 years ago, households spent three times more on residential phone bills than on mobiles, a disparity that shrank to an average difference of only $28 by 2006. Now, with... More »

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cell phones • cell phone industry • Internet phone • texting • land lines • telephone

India and China Drive Mobile Growth

Big developing markets adopt most phones, text the most

Dec 12, 07 12:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Telecom companies must be brushing up on their Hindi. India doubled its cell phone user population in 2006, adding more subscribers than Britain had total, according to a new international communications report. The 150 million Indian phone-toters represent just 14% of the population. China meanwhile sent 429 billion text messages,... More »

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China • India • cell phones • telecom industry • texting • television watching

FCC Asked
to Stop Text Censoring

Net neutrality advocates object to providers blocking messages

Dec 11, 07 10:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Consumer groups have banded together to lobby the FCC to prevent cellphone companies from blocking text messages, the Washington Post reports. The issue of carriers censoring messages from political groups and competing services has become the latest front in the net neutrality campaign. Consumers Union and other advocates are insisting... More »

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FCC • censorship • net neutrality • Naral • telecommunications • texting

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