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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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What's The Worst Lie You've Told Via Text?

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 01.31.2012

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It's 10 pm. Several friends are out and waiting for you, but you're still in pajamas and can't seem to bring yourself to leave the couch. What do you ...

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Activists Send Tacos To 'Racist' Mayor

Posted 01.27.2012

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East Haven, Connecticut, Mayor Joseph Maturo, Jr. ruffled a lot of feathers this week when he told a reporter that he would address Latinos' concerns ...

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Verizon 'Emergency' Text Alert Causes Panic In New Jersey

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 02.11.2012

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NEWARK, N.J. — Not quite the "War Of The Worlds" broadcast of a Martian invasion in New Jersey, a Verizon "emergency" alert Monday that the comp...

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What Are Smartphones Doing To Our Relationships?

Nancy Colier | Posted 01.20.2012

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Nancy Colier

I suppose that I too am guilty (if that's the right word) of avoiding contact, or taking the easy way out. And so I asked myself, what are we all so afraid of? The easy way out of what?

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Text Message Fighting

Toni Nagy | Posted 11.14.2011

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Toni Nagy

Part of me feels as if texting has improved my ability to stay in touch, while another part says you aren't actually saying anything, while the third part of me wants to text the other two parts of me to meet up for drinks later.

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Connecting Through Texting: Saving Women's Lives With Social Media

Sarah Costa | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Social Media, Crisis, Text, Maternal Health, Facebook, Social Networking, Hospitals, Pregnancy, Liberia, Health Care, Women's Issues, Impact News
Sarah Costa

After 15 years of combating maternal mortality and disability in humanitarian settings at the policy level, it's time to do more than work on policies; we now need to improve the practice.

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Phone Friends: Headed Toward Extinction?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

Aided and abetted by new technologies, phone calls and phone friends are becoming a dying breed. More people are switching to text messaging, which is less intrusive and less time-consuming.

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Artist Wayne White Stages His Life

Gordy Grundy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gordy Grundy

Wayne White is best known for his text paintings. Most often, he will find a thrift shop landscape and cleverly layer in his words, maintaining the shade and hue of the commercially produced original.

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Textbook Publisher To Replace Bad Books

washingtonpost.com | Kevin Sieff | Posted 05.25.2011

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The publisher of textbooks found to contain dozens of errors has announced that it will replace thousands of copies of the texts in Virginia elementar...

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Innovations in Magazines 2010: Adapt & Thrive

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Magda Abu-Fadil

Shrinking advertising revenue, fewer pages, slashed payrolls and dropping circulations haven't deterred traditional and new titles from capitalizing on fast-paced changes in the media.

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California Embraces Open Source Digital Textbooks

Edutopia | Posted 05.25.2011

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California schools have cracked the spine on open source, free digital textbooks in an attempt to save money and to make educational resources easier ...

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T-Mobile Releases Additional Information on the G2

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ramon Nuez

I am excited to see the first smartphones to use high speed packet access (HSPA). My initial experience with T-Mobile's USB Laptop Stick, which also uses HSPA, was rather impressive.

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How to Manage Me: Millennials and Communication

Tyler Mahoney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business Management, Gen Y, Anchorage, Non-Profits, Organizational Behavior, Millennial Generation, Text, Facebook, Housing First, Communication, College News
Tyler Mahoney

Managers need their millennial employees connected and networking in this accelerated business world.

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2G or Not 2G: A Love Story with Technical Difficulties

Tamar Chansky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tamar Chansky

Unless I find out how to safely archive the treasure trove of bubble-sized missives that ping on arrival, I will remain resolute, the dinosaur clutching tightly to my 2G iPhone.

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Social Media: The Choice of a New Generation

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lisa Mirza Grotts

Not another set of rules? I'm afraid so. Today's new forms of social media require follow-us-wherever-we-go rules, and they are changing even as you read this!

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CES 2010: Ford's Radical Reinvention of the Car Into A 4-Wheel PC

Jim Louderback | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Louderback

It's a brave new car, with digital screens on the dashboard and around the speedometer, plus LCD mood lighting and twitter integration. At CES in Las Vegas, Ford introduced its updated SYNC interface, called MyFord Touch.

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Textbook Rental From Barnes And Noble's New Service

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. is launching a textbook rental program for college students, making it the newest entrant in a growing...

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The End of Intimacy in an Instant World

Zondra Hughes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Relationships, Sex, Cell Phones, Twitter, Kindle, Email, Text, Skype, Technology, Poetry, Healthy Living News
Zondra Hughes

I really miss asking you about your day. And hearing how you planned to make our world just a little brighter. The Twitter updates just doesn't seem the same to me.

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Making Books for Gadgets

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hugh McGuire

I no longer have to carry a book, because I have 75 of them sitting on my iPod, which I have anyway. The Kindle & Sony Reader both say: carry me the way you used to carry your book.

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