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AT&T Changes Text Plans Unlimited or à la Carte Only 4 New Customers
AT&T confirmed that it will be changing its available text plans for new customers, starting August 21. It will end it's $20 fee for 1000 messages and only offer an unlimited plan for $30 a month or and à la cart fee of $.20 per text message or $30 per picture/video message.Current AT&T cus…

OMG Shark SMS Text Alerts Needed in U.S. Like Aussies’ Great White Shark Alerts?
American ocean swimmers, fisherman, surfers and ocean sports enthusiasts from coast-to-coast are well aware that it is now shark season. We Americans could learn a lot from the Australians. Electronically tagged sharks send SMS alerts when they are nearby beaches and populated are…
No Texting @ Alamo Movie Gets Great Reviews and Cult Following
A voice message left by a texter in a theater was turned into a trailer and has received rave reviews and outstanding ovations from movie goers. The woman was thrown out of the theater for texting.The message is quite graphic and amusing. She says, "I was not aware that you could not tex…
Smarter Smartphone Etiquette Needed – PDT Mobile Manners Worse, Says Intel
Have you been noticing a lot of "public displays of technology" (PDT) lately? A recent survey conducted by Ipsos and sponsored by Intel uncovered the current state of mobile etiquette in the United States. The survey found that texting or typing while driving, sending emails whil…

7 Trillion SMS Texts Next Year, Says ABI Research
SMS has proven an enormous success ever since it started to show its first signs of traction in the early 1990s. So much so that next year, according to ABI Research estimates, more than seven trillion SMS messages will be sent worldwide, from nearly 4.2 billion mobile …

WMN Exclusive: College Students Text Often & During All Sorts of Activities
Wireless and Mobile News recently polled undergraduate college students at the Claremont Colleges in Southern California and found that texting is a crucial form of communication for college-aged students. College students at the Claremont Colleges use texting more than phone calling and respond qui…
Android Apps: 8pen Faster Writing with Gestures
If typing text on your Android smartphone is difficult for you, you may want to try 8pen. 8pen is new text input software that makes it possible to input text faster than using conventional layouts on small screens, while at the same time mimicking human handwriting. Let…