Text driving 'worse than drunk driving'

Text messaging or 'texting' has led to our young people having more dextrous thumbs than any other generation before but even dextrous thumbs can't help you keep safe if you are using them to text your mates whilst...

TELUS Executive Information Leaked to combat new $0.15 inbound text messaging...

Canadian mobile subscribers were surprised Friday morning when private information on TELUS Executives began to leak out via the popular mobile phone website "Howard Forums". Click Here to view the leak on Howard...

Are You Suffering from Internet and Compulsive Texting Addiction...?

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Italians dial up best food price

A text messaging service set up by the Italian government is helping its citizens to haggle on their high street. The rising cost of food is a growing concern for many people across the world.There have been...

Philippine Rice Farmers: Texting for Expert Advice

Farmers can text the Farmers' Call Centre for news and advice. They also can post questions ranging from pesticides to modern farming technologies and practices. Answers to common questions can be immediately retrieved from archives, while more technical queries are forwarded...

Instant Messaging Helps Productivity at the Workplace

Instant messaging are often perceived as an unnecessary means of communication in the office. Although many companies have banned IM at the workplace, they should rethink this banishment as it could...

People can't leave home without their cellphones

In a recent study in North America, it was found that over one-third of workers would choose their cell phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and...

Researchers Studying 'Texting' as its own Language

Oh how I long for someone to release a mashed-up, remixed version of that early-90s Color Me Badd hit...reimagined as "I Wanna Txt U Up".Those crazy kids, they're using their telephones for writing! What will they...

Singapore tops instant messaging among Asian youths

"Singapore (ANTARA News) - Youths in Singapore emerged as Asia's most prolific instant messaging (IM) users, followed by Taiwan and Malaysia sharing the second spot, a research firm's survey said on Friday.Those age 15 to 24 spend four hours and 10 minutes every day tapping...

Students Don't Embrace Text Message Alerts

Given the very real ability for this technology to be deployed, during a crisis or an emergency, as a highly efficient means of getting instant information out to thousands of people, I find it very surprising that...

Google change triggers uproar

"By Elise Ackerman, Mercury NewsArticle Launched: 12/27/2007 01:35:58 AM PSTA small change to Google Reader has caused a big stir among users of the online service, which lets people gather updates of blogs and Web sites onto a single Web page. The new feature announced...

Internet on Airplanes: Surf and Fly at the Same Time

Personally, I don't really care if I have to wait a few hours to check my Facebook feed, but maybe that's just me."In-flight Internet access is finally taking off in the United States. Starting next week and over the...

Miyowa`s Expertise helps accelerate mass MIM deployment

"Miyowa, a global specialist in mobile instant messaging services, today reinforced its commitment to mass Mobile Instant Messaging deployment by announcing that its MIM solution will be compatible with 700 devices by June 2008 and 1000 by year end 2008. Representing an...

Defending the Amateur

Andrew Keen has put out a book attacking citizen journalism among other things.  Pundits have called Andrew Keen the Ann Coulter of the anti-citizen journalism movement.  Lawrence Lessig says that Keen's...

Skype Comes to iPhone

"Shape Services on Monday announced IM+ for Skype for iPhone, a Web application that enables iPhone users to access the Skype messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) network. IM+ for Skype for iPhone follows the release...

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