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 Russian Slaps ™ On ;-) 

Entrepreneur seeks to nudge businesses into paying $$$ for use of emoticon

Dec 12, 08 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A Russian businessman says he has been granted the trademark for the ;-) emoticon and will start charging for its use, the BBC reports. The entrepreneur, president of the Superfone mobile phone advertising company, doesn't plan to go after individual users but intends to ask corporations to pay for a... More »

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Russia • text message • trademark • emoticon • texting • patent

Surgeon Amputates
Using Texted Instructions

Phone helps save Congolese teen

Dec 3, 08 5:11 PM CST
(Newser) - A volunteer surgeon in a Congolese war zone followed texted instructions to perform an amputation that saved a 16-year-old boy's life. The teen's badly injured and infected arm required that his collar bone and shoulder blade be immediately removed, but Dr. David Nott had never conducted such a procedure. He... More »

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medicine • cell phones • surgery • Democratic Republic of Congo • text message • Doctors Without Borders • Rwanda • amputation • rebel fighters

Cops: Anthony Searched for 'Neck Breaking,' 'Chloroform'

Evidence disclosed in missing toddler case

Nov 27, 08 1:26 PM CST
(Newser) - A computer in the home of the Florida woman suspected in the disappearance and likely death of her 2-year-old daughter was used to search Google for “neck breaking,” and “shovel,” the Orlando Sentinel reports. “Death,” “inhalation” and “chloroform” were also Wikipedia queries... More »

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murder • text message • missing person • Casey Anthony • Caylee Anthony • Cindy Anthony

Mark Foley Ends Silence, Still Can't Explain Page Scandal

2 years after resignation, Republican tries to put own spin on explicit messages to teens

Nov 12, 08 10:34 AM CST
(AP) - Even today, 2 years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens working as Capitol Hill pages. "There was never anywhere in those conversations where someone said, 'Stop,' or 'I'm not enjoying... More »

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Florida • Congress • sex scandal • pedophile • text message • Mark Foley • congressional pages

 Obama Dials Up SMS Blitz 

Cell phone push in last days of campaign

Oct 29, 08 7:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Over the next seven days the Obama campaign will ratchet up its ongoing text messaging blitz, which has kept supporters in the loop and likely helped to pump up numbers at the 100,000-strong rally in Denver last week. Those who have opted in will get info about polling places,... More »

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Barack Obama • MySpace • cell phones • Facebook • text message • new media • Election 2008 • Harvard's Institute of Politics

Analysis

Texts Much More Effective Than Robo-Calls

For now, texts are much more effective than robocalls, email

Oct 28, 08 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The candidates’ automated call campaigns have received a lot of attention, but text-messaging, which only the Obama campaign uses, is likely to have a much more potent effect on the race, writes Farhad Manjoo for Slate. Studies have shown that personal appeals are more effective at mobilizing voters than mailers... More »

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Barack Obama • text message • robo-calls • voter turnout • Election 2008

California Bns Txtng
While Driving

Reading, sending texts will cost motorists $20

Sep 25, 08 1:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - California has become the latest state to outlaw text messaging while driving, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Motorists will be fined a minimum of $20 the first time they are caught reading or writing an electronic message behind the wheel, and $50 for any subsequent offenses. More »

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California • cell phones • Arnold Schwarzenegger • driving • text message • texting • drivers • driver distraction

Texting Raises Alarms as Accidents
Turn Fatal

Docs see danger while driving—or walking

Sep 20, 08 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The steep rise in text-messaging is being matched by a steep rise in people not paying enough attention to what they're doing, the New York Times reports. Fatal accidents involving distracted texters are on the rise and a group of emergency room doctors has issued a stern warning against attempting... More »

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cell phones • safety • text message • texting • telephone • driver distraction

Obama's Veep Text Reached Record 2.9M

Scooped text is nation's 'largest mobile marketing event'

Aug 26, 08 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's cell phone text to supporters naming Joe Biden as his running mate reached 2.9 million people, according to Nielsen—enough for a $290,000 bill at normal text rates. The statistics company ranks the message the nation's "single largest mobile marketing event" to date. More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • cell phones • Nielsen • text message • texting • Election 2008

Obama Texts, E-Mails VP News to Supporters

Asks backers to watch rally, write 'welcome notes' to Biden

Aug 23, 08 5:59 AM CDT
(AP) - Barack Obama's choice for a running mate was texted and emailed to supporters shortly after 3am this morning, though word had leaked out to reporters a couple of hours earlier that he'd chosen Sen. Joe Biden, a veteran lawmaker from Delaware. The text message: "Barack has chosen Senator Joe... More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • email • text message • running mate • Election 2008 • vice presidential candidate

Clooney: I'm Not Part of Obama's Brain Trust

Refutes story, says
he's 'spent more time with Sen. McCain'

Aug 13, 08 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - George Clooney supports Barack Obama, but unlike Scarlett Johansson he's not claiming to be a campaign consultant or in regular contact. The actor today refuted an LA Times story saying he “frequently text messages” the candidate, People reports. “I have never texted or emailed Sen. Obama,” Clooney... More »

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Barack Obama • celebrity • text message • George Clooney • Barack Obama supporters

OPINION

Why Obama Wants 2 Txt U His VP Choice

Campaign builds huge database for Election Day, writes webmaster

Aug 13, 08 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's decision to announce his running mate by text-messaging supporters makes him seem "just like the cool kid in study hall," writes Garrett M. Graff in the New York Times. But there's more to the text blast than just embracing new technology. The move will give Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • Internet • cell phones • text message • texting • voter turnout • running mate

 Court Limits Bosses'
 Access to Staff Emails 

Landmark ruling extends constitutional protections to electronic communication

Jun 19, 08 2:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal court has ruled that emails and text messages on work accounts—routinely monitored by some employers—are protected by constitutional safeguards against unreasonable search and seizure. The ruling only applies to electronic communications supplied through outside servers, not internal systems. The ruling forbids service providers from handing over... More »

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email • text message • Electronic Frontier Foundation • corporate monitoring • US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals • search warrant • Jeff Quon • Arch Wireless • Stored Communications Act • Ontario Police Department • 4th Amendment

More Advertisers Text to (Willing) Customers

Media companies jumping on board as ads have higher success rate than Web versions

May 27, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Text-message advertisements are catching on with marketers, largely because consumers actually ask to receive them—or at least to receive content that ads are attached to, the Wall Street Journal reports. Coors Light, for example, added marketing blurbs to text alerts requested by fans during last month's NFL draft, of... More »

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Yahoo • advertising • marketing • NBC Universal • text message • mobile advertising • IAC • Gannett • 4INFO

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

High-Tech Pope to World Youth: Bless U

Church looks to reach young Catholics with text messages

May 7, 08 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Catholic Church is going digital. During July’s World Youth Day in Sydney, Pope Benedict will reach out to the 225,000 young Catholics in attendance by text message, "using new ways to connect with today's tech-savvy youth," a spokesman tells Reuters. More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • cell phones • text message • World Youth Day

 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

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

Detroit Mayor's Aide Quits in Steamy Text Scandal

Councilors call for probe into $8.4M payout

Jan 28, 08 5:45 PM CST
(Newser) - A Detroit official quit today after steamy text messages linked her to the mayor in an ongoing sex scandal, the Detroit News reports. Christine Beatty regretted "the devastation that the recent reports have caused" and wrote "that I can no longer effectively carry out the duties of chief... More »

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police • sex scandal • Detroit • affair • text message • Kwame Kilpatrick

New Year's
SMS Jam Sends
Bad Message

Experts worry about network overloads in future crises

Jan 5, 08 7:50 PM CST
(Newser) - When the ball dropped to usher in 2008 so many people texted New Year's tidings that mobile networks jammed, the AP reports. Sadly, this is nothing new: Bounced missives in the midst of disasters like 9/11, the '03 blackout, and Katrina can be life and death matters. But full backup... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • cell phones • September 11 • text message • cell phone industry • New Year's Eve

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