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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…
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,…
According to a new study from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 6.1 trillion text messages will fly through the air by the end of 2010. That means for every second that goes by, another 200,000 text messages will have changed hands.
Wit…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Melissa Thompson, a 27-year-old woman living in Salford, England, used to text message her boyfriend some 40 or 50 times per day. Now she holds the Guiness World Record for being the fastest typist on a phone, which she achieved using a Samsung Galaxy …