Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill. Instantaneous and seemingly casual, they can be confirmation of a clan...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.07.2009 | Media
A new survey reports that 1/3 of teens have engaged in the new form of sexual communication known as 'sexting.' While many are sending risque text...
AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
OKLAHOMA CITY — Teenagers may think it's harmless, but sending sexually explicit pictures and messages over cell phones can lead to emotional pr...
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday it will seek to ban text messaging by interstate bus drivers and truckers and push states to...
The Washington Post | Donna St. George | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
As school starts again, there's so much more for a parent to nag about. Homework. Bedtime. Lost hours on Facebook and Xbox. The chores that need to be...
AP | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
AP - Unfaithful spouses in France beware: Passionate text messages sent to mistresses and lovers can now be used as evidence against you in a divorce....
Danny Groner | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media
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.
AP | BILL BERGSTROM | Posted 05.23.2009 | Home
PHILADELPHIA — Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchang...
Reuters | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
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...
AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 04.04.2009 | Living
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 ...
AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 04.03.2009 | Home
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The college student had endured months of online and cell phone harassment from her ex-boyfriend. She ignored the barrage of e-m...
Times Online | Richard Owen | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
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...
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Anyone who wonders where mobile technology is taking America's elections should have heard Casey O'Shea talk this week about the political power of mo...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
Obama's use of text messaging to publicize his the vice presidential nominee will allow him to get his own version of a biography for his choice out quickly to voters rather than have them read a news story.
Reuters Via ABC News | LISA BAERTLEIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Pizza Hut has deployed a mobile ordering system that ratchets up the competition in the industry's battle to sell more pizzas using the latest technol...
CBS News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Michelle Kratschmer's family was craving the usual - a large pepperoni pizza and a small pie with black olives and cheese - but how she entered the ph...
New York Times News Service | Adam Liptak | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Saying it had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the...
nytimes.com | LAURA M. HOLSON | Posted 12.09.2009 | Technology