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Popularity Of Texting Edges Out Cell Phone Calls

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology

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WASHINGTON — R u kidding me? Americans punched out more than 110 billion text messages in December 2008, double the number in the last month of ...

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ALARMING? One In Four Teens Admit Sexting Nude Photos, Survey Finds

AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 12.03.2009 | Technology

Read More: Sexting, Sex Text Messages, Sex Text Messaging, Text Messaging, Texting, Technology News

WASHINGTON — Think your kid is not "sexting"? Think again. Sexting – sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or on...

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To Text Or Not To Text - Dating In A Web 2.0 World

Julie Spira | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Cell Phones, Online Dating, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Dating Advice, Flirting, Text Messaging, Dating, Texting, Technology, Living News

Sending a text message can be a fun, flirty way to communicate with partners. However, depending on the nature of your relationship, texting can also damage your relationship.

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Texting While Driving Ban In Colorado To Go Into Effect December First; Will Cops Enforce?

The Colorado Independent | Katie Redding | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Driving While Texting, Text Message Colorado, Texting, Text Messaging, Denver News

Colorado's ban on texting while driving--courtesy of House Bill 1094--goes into effect next Tuesday, the first day of December. So will Colorado driv...

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Real Food Rehab: Rules For Living Well

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Living Well, Finding Your Own North Star, Individualism, Authenticity, Self-Expression, Rules for Living, Martha Beck, Real Food, Beauty, Quality, Texting, The Balanced Life, Living News

I do believe in knowing what you value most and using that as a rudder to guide your life. So here are some rules for living, exactly as I wrote them two years ago.

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Text and Drive?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Driving and Texting Ban, Texting While Driving, Illinois Texting and Driving Ban, Texting, Living News

For such a trifling thing as sending a text message, two young women's lives were ruined, and there will be many more unless and until legislative prohibitions against cell phone use of any kind are passed, and enforced.

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'Sexting' Targeted In Oklahoma Hearing

AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Sexting, Texting, Text Messages, Sexting Regulation, Technology News

OKLAHOMA CITY — Teenagers may think it's harmless, but sending sexually explicit pictures and messages over cell phones can lead to emotional pr...

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All Hyped Up With Nowhere To Go

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Energy Drinks, Depression, Twitter, Antidepressants, Social Networking, Bloggers, Starbucks, Media, Media News, Facebook, Texting, Media News

We all run out of time, and there is not really a way to save it. But one of the major ways we seem to be trying to save time is in how we communicate with each other.

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My Wrestle With The Reluctant Reader

The Huffington Post | Dean Pitchford | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Twitter, Young Adult Literature, Boys' Books, Books, Young Adult Books, Author Signings, Boys, Texting, Pop Music, Children's Books, YA Books, Author Readings, Kids' Books, Bookstore Signings, Books News

For over twenty-five years I have worked at creating the most compressed form of popular art -- the three-minute pop song. Recording artists, publish...

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New Literacy and the Commoditization of Content

Celeste Fine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Texting, Reading, Book Publishing, Vook, Literacy, Online Reading, Branding, Facebook, New Literacy, Publishing, Internet, Stanford, Books, Blogging, Books News

Perhaps product innovations, like books with video, are only as successful as they pertain to customer intimacy, and the future of books isn't inventing a better book but better meeting readers' needs.

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Email, Texting Top Social Media Gen Yers Can't Do Without

mashable.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | Technology

Read More: Gen Y Tech, Millennials Technology, Tech Addictions, Email, Twitter, Social Networking, Emailing, Social Media, Social Networks, Texting, Technology News

While Generation Y may believe that social media is for narcissists, a new behavioral study shows that the same generation spends more time on social ...

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Samsung Denver Cell Phone Study: One In Three Of Denverites Would Sooner Give Up Sex Than Phones

Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Cell Phones, Samsung Study, Cell Phones Sex, Samsung, Texting, Denver, Denver News

Samsung has released the results of a Denver-area consumer study that indicated nearly a third of Denver area residents would sooner give up sex for a...

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'No Texting' Is The New 'No Smoking': Bans On Texting While Driving Gain Support

Bianca Bosker | Posted 10.04.2009 | Technology

Read More: Cell Phones, Cell Phone Driving, Distracted Driving, Cell Phone, Obama Cell Phone Driving Ban, Cell Phone Driving Ban, Smart Phones, Texting Driving, Texting, Technology News

'No texting' is the new 'no smoking.' Obama, carmakers, state governments, and citizens have rallied in support of legislation that would ban drivers...

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Communication Interruptus

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Cell Phones, Living With Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Facebook, Asd, Text Messaging, Asperger's, Facebook-Status, Texting, Communication, Living News

During the first 17 months of his life, my son hit development milestones perfectly on time. Then autism hit.

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Obama's Texting-While-Driving Ban Exempts Law Enforcement, National Security Personnel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texting Ban Law Enforcement, Texting Ban Exemptions, Obama Texting, Texting Ban, Texting, Politics News

Good news, America! President Barack Obama has seen all of your hysterical news reports and grisly British PSAs on texting while driving and has done...

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Obama Admin Calls Distracted Driving An "Epidemic"

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Texting, Driving, Unsafe Driving, Texting While Driving, Home News

WASHINGTON — Driving while distracted is a growing peril in a nation reluctant to put down its cell phones and handheld devices even behind the ...

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Ban Hand-Held Texting and Calling While Driving, but Don't Sever the Wireless Link to Cars

Dave McCurdy | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cell Phones, Texting While Driving, Cell Phone Driving Ban, Texting, Politics News

We must address distracted driving, but we must do it without undercutting developing technologies that will help in making driving even safer.

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Would it Kill You to Use Your Turn Signal?

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Cars, Driving, Cell Phones, Safe Driving, Teen Drivers, Parents, Texting, Teenagers, Living News

Like a reformed smoker who is overly sensitive -- and obnoxious -- to those still smoking, I am suddenly hyperaware of the dangers lurking behind the wheel of all the cars around me.

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To Tweet or Not To Tweet: That is the Question

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Classics, Twitter, Hamlet, Tweet, Texting, Gettysburg Address, Comedy News

We've prepared a time-saver for those hipsters, geeks, and Twitteristas who haven't the time to reduce the classics to Twitter's required 140 characters, counting spaces.

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Cybercitizens of the World Unite

Stephen Balkam | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital, Sexting, Online Safety, Family Online Safety Insitute, Stephen Balkam, Texting, Media News

Western civilization has a collective memory of what it means to be a citizen, stretching back to ancient Greece. But we are still learning what it means to be a citizen of the digital world.

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They'd Rather Text Than Eat

Lloyd Garver | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Wifi, Airlines, Internet Addiction, Texting, Living News

I'm not a computer addict, but some people are. It's no joke. In fact, the first American live-in treatment center for internet addiction opened recently.

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Dreams From My Grandfather

Chris Campbell | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Twitter, Richard Nixon, Joint Session of Congress, Health Care Reform, Facebook, Health Care, Barack Obama, Texting, Politics News

I only vaguely remember even meeting my grandfather, but it's everything I've learned about him since that has had such an impact on my life.

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The Techno-Loner Generation: Are You Raising a Socially Illiterate Child?

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Relationships, Technology, Kids, How to Improve Your Life, Generation Y, Texting, Keith Ferrazzi, Business News

Teenagers send and receive 2,272 texts a month and spend nine hours a week absorbed in social networking sites. Does the Digital Age stupefy the next generation?

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Parents Nag Via Text-Messaging

The Washington Post | Donna St. George | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Text Messages, Nagging via Text Messaging, Children, Texting, Text Messaging, Parenting, Parents, Nagging, Teenagers, Living, Living News

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...

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