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TEXT TROUBLE: Two Women Message State Trooper To Buy Illegal Alcohol

AP | Posted 05.18.2012

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two women face possible charges after authorities say a text message seeking the illegal purchase of alcohol was errantly sent to...

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Is There A Way To Outsmart Text Message Spammers?

| Posted 04.15.2012

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By Will Oremus (Click here for original article.) Two years ago, I got a text message from a number with a Las Vegas area code. “Thanks for vi...

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How Campaigns Are Using Texts

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 04.09.2012

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NEW YORK — Text messaging is posing both new opportunities and dangers for America's political campaigns. The most widely used form of mobile c...

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New Technology Allows Deaf-Blind People To Send Texts

Posted 04.08.2012

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By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 04/07/2012 09:45 AM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily So far the products produced using remote-touch technolo...

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Occupy Wall Street Gets New Arrest Alert App

AP | Posted 12.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- Occupy Wall Street protesters now have a free app to alert others if they're about to be arrested. Van Anden is working to make it availa...

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Can Texting Sabotage Your Split?

Judy Corcoran | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Ex Wife, Ex Husband, Text Message, Divorce, Communication, Texting, Divorce News

Before, divorcing, separated and divorced parents were forced to meet face-to-face or pick up the phone to communicate about the well-being of their child or children. Now, everything from play date arrangements to insult hurling is done with the flick of a thumb or the click of a mouse.

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WATCH: Husband Orchestrated Wife's Killing, Claimed It Was A Bias Attack, Cops Say

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 10.19.2011

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BOONTON, N.J. — A Pakistani-American man whose wife was gunned down while they and their son walked along a quiet suburban street plotted the ki...

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When Parents Text: The 13 Most Hilarious Fails From Mom And Dad

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some parents are culture-savvy netizens who keep abreast of trends alongside their children. Others, not so much. WhenParentsText is an ode (in blog...

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FCC Updating 911 For The Texting Generation

Wired | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messa...

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World Texting Record SMASHED

Yahoo! News UK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nimble-fingered Melissa Thompson, from Salford, Greater Manchester, made swift work of the challenge in hand. She texted "the razor-toothed piranhas ...

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ER Docs TEXT Patients Waiting Times

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Need an X-ray or stitches? Online, via text message or flashing on a billboard, some emergency rooms are advertising how long the d...

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Saudi Men Keep Their Women Tagged By Text Alerts

The Guardian | Nesrine Malik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Telecommunication, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian Women, Text Message, Text Tagging, Technology, Communication, Bluetooth, World News

Want to know whether your wife, sister or daughter has left the county? Well, in Saudi Arabia, there's an app for that. Reportedly, male guardians or ...

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Teen Texting: Deciphering the Social Cues

Wendy Strgar | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Texting, Teens and Texting, Parenting, Text Message, Text Technology, Text Messaging, Texting Teens, Healthy Living News

The social rules for text conversation are anything but cut and dry. At the least, some smart teen should write a book of etiquette, so everyone can agree what the response means.

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Text Message Scam Targets Unemployed

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Identity Theft, Cell Phones, Scam, Unemployment, Fraud, Text Message, Mobile Phones, Ohio, Unemployment Benefits, Umeployed, Technology News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Authorities say a text message scam is targeting Ohioans who receive unemployment benefits. Attorney General Richard Cordray s...

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Supreme Court To Hear Text Message Privacy Suit

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' ac...

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Texting Gets Reasons for a Thumbs Down

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a society, we tend to accept that texting has gone overboard with the even larger technological craze. As tough as it is to scale back, it's even tougher to convince others to.

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Saudi Man Divorces Wife Via Text Message

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said on Thursday. The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no lo...

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The Trouble with Twitter: Why "Tweets" Are Like "Blipverts"

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's a time marked by inundation, fragmentation, and an ADD culture. Twitter drives all three of those trends.

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Catholics Urged To Give Up Texting For Lent

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 11.17.2011

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ROME — Roman Catholic bishops in Italy are urging the faithful to go on a high-tech fast for Lent, switching off modern appliances from cars to ...

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Italian Church: Give Up Texting For Lent

Times Online | Richard Owen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Easter, Text Messaging Italy, Italy, Lent, Text Message, Europe, Italian Church, Text Messaging, Text Messages, World News

Chrch sez stop txtn 4 lent. Or, put another way, the Italian Church wants its followers to forswear text messaging, social networking websites and com...

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Text-Messaging Surgeon Saves Boy's Life In Congo

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, Technology Health Care, Doctor Text Message, Text Message Saves Life, Text Message, Congo, Medecins Sans Frontieres, London, Msf, World News

A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague in London to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy. V...

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Obama's Mobile Moment

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011

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By going around the news media and even bypassing its own massive email list, the Obama campaign is attempting to build a direct, personal, and immediate connection with voters.

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Dude, Where's My Text Message?

Sarah Granger | Posted 05.25.2011

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First to know? Not quite. The best new media campaign in history botched their attempt to keep a lid on the VP pick in order to announce it via text messaging.

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