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Supreme Court Takes Texting Case: Should Workers' Text Messages Be Private?

AP | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology

Read More: Supreme Court Texting, Supreme Court Texting Case, Digital Privacy, Text Message, Text Message Privacy, Privacy, Supreme Court May Hear Appeal on Workers' Text-Message Privacy, Supreme Court Us Gov 08-1332, Supreme Court Hears Cell Phone Text Message Case, Supreme Court Text Message Privacy, Supreme Court, Text Messages From Government Phones, Supreme Court to Hear Case Over Employee Text Messages Sex, Supreme Court to Hear About Policemen for Being Fired for Text Messages, Supreme Court Text Message, Technology News

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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Text Message Scam Targets Unemployed

AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology

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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Texting Gets Reasons for a Thumbs Down

Danny Groner | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Sexting, Preoccupation, Obsession, Text Messages, Twitter, Nytimes, Teens, The New York Times, Addiction, New York Times, Text Message, Text Messaging, Teenagers, Texting, Cell Phones, Technology, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Unplugging, Media News
Danny Groner

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 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Saudi Women, Text Message Divorce, Text Messages, Divorce, Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia, Text Message, Text Messaging, Advocacy, World News

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 04.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Culture, Blipvert, Max Headroom, Social Networking, Advertising, Twitter, E-Mail, Cable News, Text Message, Facebook, Internet, Blackberry, Powerbook, Macintosh, Newton, Media News
William Bradley

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 04.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Text Message, Text Messaging, Text Messages, Catholics, Lent, Living News

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 04.03.2009 | World

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 01.02.2009 | World

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 09.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Vice President, Sms, Cell Phone, Mobile Phones, Twitter, Obama, Mccain, Tim Ryan, Joe Biden, Text Message, Mobile Future, Vp, Online Campaigning, Hillary Clinton, Web Video, Culberson, Obama Biden, Obama VP, Obama Text Message, Media News
Jonathan Spalter

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 09.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Vp, Sms, Twitter, Gotv, Text Message, Joe Biden, South Korea, Barack Obama, Home News
Sarah Granger

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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