January 20, 2011
It’s hard not to laugh at Cathy Cruz Marrero, who was caught on tape unintentionally diving head first into a fountain located in the Berkshire Mall. Had she been paying attention to her surroundings instead of trying to text message and walk at the sa…
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December 21, 2010
If you kicked yourself for missing it the first time around, act fast and go grab the Swype Beta software for Android, which is once again open for a limited time, Swype announced in a forum post.
This is actually a new version of Swype, so even if you…
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November 15, 2010
When it comes to routine matters, British police have been ordered to fire off a text message rather than communicate using their radios, UK’s Daily Mail reports. It’s the latest movie in what the UK newspaper calls “unprecedented cutbacks.”
Meanwhile,…
Tags: mobile, News Worthy, police, text messaging, Texting
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October 15, 2010
Granted it’s no secret teenagers love to text, but if you want to back up that claim with some hard numbers, here you go. According to Nielsen, American teens send an average of 3,339 text messages every month. That equates to more than six texts for e…
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October 14, 2010
It may have taken two years, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office finally approved a patent Apple filed in 2008 which sought to prevent users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages.
The patent doesn’t use the term “sexting,” howeve…
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September 23, 2010
We’re not sure what’s more disheartening, the fact that Brianna Hendrickson, a 13-year-old from Brooklyn, New York text messages her friends and family 7,000 times a month, or that doing so prepared her to win this year’s LG U.S. National Texting Champ…
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September 7, 2010
Listen, we’re not looking to spark a debate over marijuana, so let’s not get sidetracked in the comments section. But no matter where you stand on the issue, we can all probably agree that texting your local sheriff looking to score a bag of weed is a …
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September 3, 2010
Call it a blatant stereotype if you will, but there’s no way adult texters come close to text messaging teenage girls who send and receive thousands of texts every month. But that doesn’t mean grownups are left living in the cell phone Stone Age, eithe…
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