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Smartphone & Cell Phone Users Want More Control Over Mobile Messaging, Says Acision Study
An Acision study reveals that mobile phone users in North America would like to have .more control over mobile messaging. Users want to have control over the messages they receive, and parents would like to be able to blacklist numbers...
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AT&T Lauches Texts Can Wait Campaign
AT&T is launching a campaign to raise awareness about the risks of texting and driving, informing cell phone users that text messages can - and should - wait until after driving. The national campaign features true stories and the text...
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Free Verizon Calls to Chile: Text Donations to CHILE
Verizon has waived all long-distance usage charges forc alls from its residential landline and Verizon Wireless phones to Chile, from Feb. 26 through Mar. 6. All the carriers Sprint, T-Mobile AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon will not charge for text message...
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Teen "Redo's" Texting in PSA For Driving Safety PSA Wins Scholarship
An Arizon teenager won a $1000 scholarship and trip to New York, by showing teens why to stop texting while driving in a PSA context.16-year old Bethany Brown s won the first annual Drive to Life PSA Competition, organized by...
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More Teens Text, Txtng VIP 2Teens, Says MRI
More teens are choosing texting over instant messaging as their preferred method of communication, according to the latest TeenMark study from Mediamark Research & Intelligence (MRI). Some 57% of teenagers report they text messaged on their cell phones in...
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Teen Text 3,146 @Month 10 Texts a Hr - Costs Less than a Penny
Nielsen has noticed the massive use of texting by teens. American teenagers are using 3,146 messages a month, which translates into more than 10 messages every hour of the month that they are not sleeping or in school. Even the...
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Cha Cha Teen Texters Voted Best Super Bowl Ads, Loved Doritos, Texted Denny's
ChaCha (UR mobile BFF) says that a poll of its users, primarily teens and young adults, who asked questions during the Super Bowl last night showed that their favorite commercials were for Doritos. The ones they disliked most were for...
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text4Baby: Free SMS Text Msgs 4 Pregnant Moms y Mamas En Espanol
Now moms can get health suggestion text messages through a public service program being launched today by a coalition of mobile phone service providers, health professionals, and Federal, State, and Local agencies. The new program, called text4baby, is a free...
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USDOT Bans Texting While Driving for Commerical Vehicles Imediately
U.S Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood today announced federal guidance to expressly prohibit texting by drivers of commercial vehicles such as large trucks and buses LaHood is not the first to want to end distracted driving, Oprah did a whole...
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Mobile Text Aid to Haiti Reached $30 Millions Says Mobile Giving Foundations
Donations made via mobile phones for Haiti Earthquake Relief have reached $30 million across all the short codes reported the Mobile Giving Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping other non-profits raise funds through mobile.A list ways to text aid...
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mGive Platform Provides Text Service for $24 Million Given to Haiti Red Cross Releif
Nearly 2.5 million people have texted $10 pledges for Haitian relief to the American Red Cross in seven days, the largest number ever to take action for a mobile giving campaign. Mobile pledges now total about 25 percent of all...
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Text Msg Windows Mobile Glitches an' Fixes 2Day: Back to Future 2016 Texts
CNN reported earlier this month that Windows Mobile users have been since the first of the year, have been getting text messages from the future, the year 2016."Microsoft is aware of reports that phone messages received after 1/1/2010 may be...
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Text Disaster Info Service Launched for Hiatians by Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has today launched a first-of-its kind, free disaster-information service for the people of Haiti. The service allows survivors of Haiti's earthquake to receive critical information by text message directly to their phones, free of charge. To...
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More thatn $16 Million Mobile Text Donations, List of Text Codes
Donations made via mobile phones for Haiti Earthquake Relief have surpassed $16 million. Over the weekend mobile donations increased from $10 million reported by MGF on Friday to more than $16 million. The Foundation noted that it continues to see...
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Many Ways to Text Aid to Haiti: Record $7 Million Donated via SMS So Far
In 36 hours, donations made via mobile phones for Haiti Earthquake Relief have surpassed $7 million reported the Mobile Giving Foundation, a non profit organization dedicated to helping other non-profits raise funds through mobile. This amount represents a mobile-giving record...
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FocusDriven Helps Fight Distracted Driving and Assists Victims
FocusDriven the first national nonprofit organization devoted specifically to raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving was formed recently.The group will be led by Jennifer Smith, who has been an outspoken advocate against distracted driving since her mother...
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Tagged Great White Sharks SMS Lifeguards and Safety Agencies in Australia
Lifeguards may want to check their cell phones for text messages on the popular beaches in Perth. There are now monitoring stations designed to track movements of great white sharks off Perth's coast in Australia. Receivers track great white sharks...
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Angelenos Txt in Taboo Places- on D8s, Dining and @ Church
Even though texting while driving is illegal in Los Angeles, Samsung Mobile results of a local market survey revealed that not only do 80 percent of Los Angeles cell phone users text but that they're doing it everywhere. According to...
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Texting While Driving TWD Bans in NH, OR and IL on 1/01/2010
Attention drivers in Illinois, New Hampshire and Oregon, texting while driving will be illegal in your states starting tommorrow.On January 1, 2010 a Driving While Texting ban will go into effect Illinois, New Hampshire and Oregon. Vlingo makes voice control...
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Txt MSG 2x+ in US, Says U.S. Census, $50 Average Cell Phone Bill
The number of text messages sent on cell phones has more than doubled from 48 billion in 2007 to 110 billion in 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010.Other mobile releted facts...
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Free Coffee, Slurpee, Big Gulp Texts (SMS) from 7-Eleven in San Diego en Espanol Tambien
7-Eleven is testing a free drink mobile marketing campaign in San Diego through Dec. 31, 2009, at 200 7-Eleven stores. Local residents can send an SMS (Short Message Service) text with the word "FAST" (in Spanish, "RAPIDO") to "72579." In...
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Sun Srn Txts G8 Way to MSG Health, Sez Center for Connected Health
A recent study conducted by the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, found that text messaging is an innovative, low-cost and effective way to improve the daily use of sunscreen, and this technology may have important implications...
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Please Don't Drive While Texting, Pleads Sprint
While driving to all those Black Friday and Weekend, sales please don't drive while distracted warned Sprint. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2008 distracted driving was responsible for 16 percent of all traffic fatalities and 21...
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Free Txt MSGs 2 BFF Santa @ AT&T BAK
Santa is up-to-date to date on his technolgoy, and is not just jolly but textable. Good little boys and girls across the country can text their holiday wish-list to Santa and track Santa’s sleigh journey. AT&Tcustomers who text SANTA to...
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U.S. Cellular Offers Overage Protection with Text Alerts
U.S. Cellular is now offering a text alert service "Overage Protection."Here's how U.S. Cellular's Overage Protection works: Existing and new post-pay customers can sign up by visiting a retail store, contacting customer service or accessing their account at uscellular.com. New...
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Little Words Music Video Warns Teen About Texting While Driving (TWD)
ZoomSafer, has released a fully original music video entitled "Little Words" to help promote National Teen Driver Safety Week. "Distraction from the use of mobile phones is causingan increase in auto crashes among all age groups, especially among teens who...
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CNN Says Texting While Driving Dangerous While iPhone Traffic Watching Okay, Daily Show Humor
CNN News doesn't always practice what it preaches which Jon Stewart pointed out on the Daily Show. He starts the introduction with a "he-he-he-he-he." Yes, texting while driving is dangerous reported CNN. But CNN also showed off the latest CNN...
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Auto Safety Group Petitions US Dept. of Transportation
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Transportation to prohibit or restrict the use of unsafe electronic devices, for talking, texting and other purposes, by operators of commercial motor vehicles, such as...
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"That's Not Cool" Prevents Digital Dating Abuse and Textual Harassment
Verizon and the Advertising Council are offering a public service advertising campaign to help teens deal with "textual harassment," privacy issues and pic-pressure. The new PSA's for Verizon Wireless' Mobile web service, and Verizon FiOS Internet and Verizon FiOS TV...
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NCMEC Offers "Sexting" Cautions
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children NCMEC has issued a policy statement regarding sexting. The statement is a product of extensive dialogue with leaders in the field, and was developed with the strong involvement of the American Bar...
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GHSA Supports Ban on Texting While Driving in All States
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) supprts a ban texting behind the wheel for all drivers in all states. GHSA Members are appointed by their governors to lead state highway safety agencies.Texting while driving is very dangerous. It is worse...
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Txtng @ Dentist Caps Dental Care, 411 B4 or 4Get Txting
Okay folks, you text while driving and cause accidents. Shouldn't you give your dear dentist and break and not be texting while in the dental chair? Just think of the mistakes you will make while breathing the "happy-air." Personally, I...
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TXT Chegg 2 RNT Txt Books 2 Save $$$
As students go back to school they are probably having sticker shock when they see the price of college text book. If you don't want to keep the text book you can rent it for about a third of the...
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Handy Free Txt Email Alert Srv 4 Travelers & BFFs
There are many applications for smartphones especially the BlackBerry and Palm Pre that help you while you are traveling. Not everyone has a global phone that will roam with you all over the world. So what can you do if...
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Black Hawk Iowa First 2 Text 2 911
The Black Hawk Consolidated Public Safety Communications Center In Black Hawk Iowa can receive now text messages from select wireless subscribers in the county. The call center successfully completed the text trial this past June and is now the first...
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Verizon Supports Senate's Ban of Texting /Emailing While Driving
Yesterday, legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate that would ban texting and e-mailing while driving. The proposed legislation, called the ALERT Act, was introduced by U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Kay Hagen...
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New Reason for Not Texting While Walking: Sewer Holes OMG
According to NBCNewYork.com a teenage girl fell into a uncovered sewer while texting on Victory Boulevard on Staten Island. The girl, Alexa Longueira, 15, received some scrapes on her arms and back after she fell into the sewer hole.The family...
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Texting While Driving Worse than Drinking While Driving, Says Car and Driver
To gauge the effect of texting while driving, Car and Driver magazine conducted road tests to determine just how dangerous texting and driving can be. In the Car and Driver video of the test, Editor-in-Chief Eddie Alterman, said, "While you're...
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35% of Teens Admit to Cheating with Cell Phone, 100 Texts While in Classroom
Moore than 35% of teens admit to cheating with cell phones, and more than half admit to using the Internet to cheat reports a study by the The Benenson Strategy Group for Common Sense Media. Furthermore, many students don't consider...
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Teen Texter, Kate Moore Wins $50,000 While PAW > Zippity Split in 60 Seconds
The third annual LG U.S. National Texting Championship, concluded with 15-year-old Kate Moore from Des Moines, Iowa as the winner. Moore, won the title of the LG U.S. National Texting Champion, along with $50,000 in prize money by texting on...
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iGR Text Study: Breakups, Marriage Proposals, Babies, Divorces
Mobile consultancy, iGR's recent study on the content of consumers' text messages shows some major life situations are occurring via cell phone SMS text messages.The survey asked respondents a series of questions regarding the purpose of text messages they sent...
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Texter LG Neon Feature Phone Virtually Free Deals
AT&T is now offering their texting phone the LG Neon a touchscreen phone with lots of features for a low-price.The green and white quick messaging LG Neon features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 2.0 megapixel camera/camcorder and access to Instant Messaging,...
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224 Billion Messages in 2008, 1.06 Million SMS Valentines, Days VeriSign
The latest figures from VeriSign show no signs of mobile messaging slowing, its growing exponentially. Mobile messaging volumes continue to shatter records, according to the latest quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by the Messaging and Mobile Media Division...
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American Idol a Hit with AT&T Services
AT&T reported that more than 78 million text messages crossed its network as fans interacted with American Idol -- the highest total for any season and more than double the 78 million messages AT&T reported last year. 97 million votes...
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26% Drive while Texting - 60% Mobile Phoners Text, Says Vlingo
The results of the Vlingo Consumer Mobile Messaging Habits Report are down right dangerous. Despite Driving While Texting (DWT) bans in seven states and the District of Columbia as well as reports of accidents caused by DWT, 26% of...
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Teen Txts Up $4756.25 Cell Bill, Dad Hammers Cell
Paying per text can be expensive. 13-year-old Dena Christofferson's texting aggravated her father, Greg Christofferson of Cheyenne Wisconsin when her texting, sky-rocket the family's wireless bill to $4,756.25.Dena's father purchased data plan from Verizon Wireless that excluded texting. Dena sent...
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LG Neon, Quick Messaging $29 Touchscreen Phone from AT&T
AT&Tclaims teens and text-happy adults will enjoy the LG Neon, a low-cost touchscreen device available in the coming weeks. The green and white quick messaging phone features a full keyboard, 2.0 megapixel camera, and access to Instant Messaging, Mobile Email,...
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WeFollow Follows Twitter A Lot Like Digg, You Digg?
Digg founder Kevin Rose founded a website that offers a people-powered directory for Twitter. It organizes the Twitterverse by popularity. WeFollow sorts Twitter users by category, as defined by the people themselves. Users choose online affiliations with three tags (sy,...
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Free iPhone and BlackBerry (Storm) App of the Day: SitOrSquat Toilet-Finder
Before you have to download, we suggest you download the SitOrSquat app for your iPhone or BlackBerry. We've named it the BlackBerry, BlackBerryStorm and the iPhone Free App of the Day because, we all need to find restrooms on-the-go. SitOrSquat...
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SMS MediaFriends Works on TVs, PCs and Phones
Integra5, the leader in delivering next-generation communication experiences across TVs, PCs, mobile and DECT phones, and Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. announced a partnership to allow mobile operators to extend their reach with the delivery of social,...
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Crazy App of the Day: Foursquare, Friend-Finder, City Guide, Twitter with Benefits?
Foursquare is mobile friend finder, meet n' great game by the creator of DodgeBall, Dennis Crowley. DodgeBall was sold in 2005 to Google. Foursquare works as an iPhone app, via text or the mobile web. It's kind of like, Twitter...
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Texing ot the Green Pub-Finder: Text greenbeer to 67463
There's always something mobile and green for Saint Patrick's Day. Now you can text message to find green beer.There is a service to help you find green beer in in four major cities - San Francisco, , Boston, Los Angeles...
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Score with Qck Txts for Mrch Madness from Chacha
ChaCha is now offering ways access live sports scores for March Madness. ChaCha is introducing ThmbSavrs abbreviations that enable fans to send shortcut texts to ChaCha (242242) and receive live sports scores, news and updates quickly. Unlike other mobile search...
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OMG No Catholic Txt or Twitter During Lent!
Dioceses and Catholic groups in Italy requested a ban on text messaging every Friday in Lent, which began last week on Ash Wednesday. AP reports "It's a small way to remember the importance of concrete and not virtual relationships," the...
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Oscar Academy Award Winner Mobile Web, Texts, Twitters and Buzz
Here are resources to get Oscar Academy Award information on your cell phone, mobile and smartphone. Seth Goldman Mobile Entertainment Buzz reporter for NBC will text you or twitter OscarAcademy Award Winners today.Goldman will Twitter from the red carpet and...
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2 Trillion Texts-a-Day Globally, Says In-Stat
A report from In-Stat finds the most profitable data service is still text messaging. Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) technologies provide potentially endless revenue streams for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). In-Stat found the following: Users are...
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1.4 Million Inaugural Text Messages Predicted by VeriSign
VeriSign predicts 1.4 billion mobile messages wll be delivered nationwide on Inauguration Day. Due the historic nature of the inaugural, and Obama's ties to heavy users of messaging technology, VeriSign expects the Election Day record of 803 million messages carried...
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Text Chat Between Mobiles and Computers Via Cherple
Globaltel Media, Inc. is offering a pre-release version of their new texting chat app for PCs to mobiles dubbed Cherple. The service is free to the computer user while the mobile phone carriers text rates or plan applies.Cherple allows two-way...
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ShapeWriter Makes Writing Easier on iPhone, Windows Mobile Phones and Tablets
ShapeWriter Inc is now offering their predictive text entry apps forn Windows Mobile, Android, and Windows XP/Vista They are also upgrading to their popular WritingPad 1.0 iPhon application. Now called ShapeWriter 2.0, this enhanced version is available at the Apple...
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Text, call, Video or MMS the New Year? Asks Sprint
Sprint is expecting its customers to text in the New Year, based on historical network trends. Sprint's has strengthened its network in time for the dropping of the ball. "New Year's is one of the highest 'text messaging' days of...
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More Authority in Twitter Searches Twitority and Twithority
Lots of people like to ease drop and search Twitter to see what people are Twittering to each other. They want to know what Twitters are from the Twitters with the highest authority, meaning the ones with the most followers. ...
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No Texting, Email, IM or MMS While Driving Law in California Starts January 1, 2009
It's dangerous to text, talk or do anything with a wireless phone while driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has determined that driver inattention is a primary or contributing factor in as many as 25 percent of all police-reported...
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Twittersphere Report Shows Lots of New Twitterers in 2008
HubSpot’s “State of the Twittersphere” report for Q4 2008 shows a dominance of new users this year with 70% of Twitterers joining in 2008.The report reveals 5,000-10,000 new accounts opened per day while 35% of Twitter users have ten or...
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Texting While Skydiving World Record Attempted
What's that up in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it plane? An Alien?No it's just the flying Samsung Text Messenging Team.On December 19, at team of 10 skydivers attempted to set the Guinness World Record for fastest...
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Gmail Adds Text SMS and Chat
Google Labs has added the ability to send and receive SMS text messages from Gmail. The Google Gmail Blog says, "It combines the best parts of IM and texting: you chat from the comfort of your computer, and your friends...
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ChaCha ChaChaChas As Fatest Growing SMS Service
A ChaCha new release says they are fastest growing SMS service They had more than 28 percent of standard rate SMS search transactions between the top three providers (ChaCha Google SMS and Yahoo!) in the third quarter.According to Nielsen, ChaCha's...
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Nu Txt Study Shows Txt 2 Hard 2 Read - Stop bbs-ing , Says Dr. Kemp
A new study by University of Tasmania psychology lecturer, Dr. Nengah Kemp, found that reading a super-abbreviated text message some call "textese," can take 2x as long to comprehend while it saves the sender just a few seconds of texting....
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TXT Msg 4 Ever! Virgin Mobile Text into Space Msg Service
Virgin Mobile now allows you send to text messages out into to space to your BFFs in the galaxy. Virgin says: "Once sent you can ensure your message will live on eternally, a concept that will surely touch the recipients...
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Americans Should Expect More SMS Text Marketing Msgs, Says Nielsen
Nielsen mobile is doing quite of job of investigating the mobile text revolution. According to a report released Monday by Nielsen's Telecom Practice, Americans should expect to see more text message marketing in the future. Marketers have ramped up their use...
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SMS is Cash Cow with World Mobile Msg worth $224 Billion in 2013, Saya Portio
A Portio Research report suggests that SMS will continue to be the cash cow of mobile data revenues for some time to come. Traffic and revenues continue to keep growing through the economic downturn. The entire mobile messaging industry worth...
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Automatically Forward SMS Text Msgs to Email
txtForward from Electric Pocket automatically forwards SMS text messages sent or received on a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile smartphone to any email address. The program can come in handy for text message backup or when the smartphone is not in...
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New Freaky Mobile Website The Cell Freak with Free Int'l SMS
TheCellFreak.com has been updated. It's a user generated free cellular content site and mobile blog, which features a Free Worldwide SMS service.The free text service works by sending text messages from the web to cell phones (data charges apply.) It...
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El Paso Top Texting City, Says Scarborough
El Paso is the top U.S. city for text messaging according to Scarborough Research. Fifty-seven percent of cell phone subscribers age 18+ in El Paso text message, versus 48 percent of adult cellular subscribers nationally. Other leading markets for text...
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World Toilet Day Yesterday, UK Study Reveals Lots of Loo Texting
Yesterday was World Toilet Day. In the UK a philanthropic agency promoting the world's use of toilets Tearfund released interesting information on what people do while on the toilet. The research, commissioned by the aid agency, reveals that more than...
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200 Billion Mobile Msgs and $7 Billion in Revs in 2008, Says VeriSign
VeriSign's data shows a record-breaking quarter for mobile messaging statistics.VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media Division's combined mobile messaging networks enabled more than 58.3 billion messages in Q3 2008, nearly a 10 percent increase from the previous quarter. VeriSign facilitated an...
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Amazon.com Daily Deal Text Alerts
Amazon is now offering Text Alerts for Daily Deals Customers then can then reply-to-buy with the text command "buygb" or follow the link in the text message to the Amazon mobile website to view the full details of the deal...
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Mumbling Ozzy Osborne Texts Via Samsung Propel for Clarity
As you may have noticed by all the text stories today and projections for great text ARPU for carriers worldwide. Samsung's Propel(not the drink the AT&T phone) has recruited Ozzy Osborne to help promote their texting phone.No one can understand...
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AT&T Quickfire on Sale Now
AT&T is now offfering the Quickfire, the final of four new quick messaging mobile phones designed to make messaging faster for textaholics.The Quickfire is slider phone with a1.3 megapixel camera and full QWERTY keypad, 3G world access and with fast...
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Text (SMS) Rate to Increase to 20 Cents for AT&T Customers
There is another text message rate increase looming on November 12, increasing the per text (SMS and IM) message to 20 cents, making the increase close to 100% in a few years. One of our writers received the following text...
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Salvation Army's New Bell Ringers, Text Messages
The Salvation Army will be offering the ability to text message donations in Atlanta and Columbus.Starting in two weeks at Thanksgiving time in Atlanta, cell phone users can text message "TSA"--to 90999 and a $5 donation will be added to...
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Pregnancy Fertility Help Via Text Alerts from Baby Center
Baby Center has launched their "Booty Caller" text alert service with ovulation alerts and fertility information sent to cell phones as reminders.Their website suggests, "We'll tell you when, you decide where." Subscribers Receive a series of 18 text messages (3...
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Lots of Text Messages Sent Election Night, Says Sybase
There was huge surge in SMS traffic during the 10 minutes after Barack Obama was officially named the president elect of the U.S. says Sybase 365. On Tuesday, between 8.00pm and 8.10pm PST, the volume of messages surged over 3...
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ChaCha Offers Rich SMS Advertising
ChaCha today is now offering a Rich SMS Advertising solution. Through initial campaigns with Coca-Cola, McDonald's and others, ChaCha delivers response rates of more than five percent, a dramatic improvement over other mobile advertising solutions like SMS alerts and WAP...
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How to Text Barack Obama - OMG U CAN TXT MSG UR BFF OBAMA
For those of you who didn't get chance to write down the number to text message Barack Obama after viewing the Barack Obama / Joe Biden infomercial video, (30 minute / half hour ad) TV special this Wednesday evening in...
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The Hollywood Reporter Mobile Box Office Texts Weekend Film Grosses
The Hollywood Reporter will offer THR Mobile Box Office, that delivers first-to-market weekend boxoffice estimates to cell phones and other mobile devices via a SMS text message alert, will launch Sunday. Subscribers to THR Mobile Box Office will be the...
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Free Sports Text Alerts from Limbo
Limbo is offering free sports text message alerts to any mobile phone user. To receive text alerts directly to a mobile phone, all a person needs to do is send the word SPORTS to Limbo's short code, 41414. A...
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Verizon Ups Rate for SMS - 3 Senseless Cents?
Verizon has added a 3-cent fee for all mobile-terminated messages delivered across its network beginning Nov. 1. An email was sent by Verizon partner OpenMarket. This change will affect the mobile content providers who rely on text for their business....
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OMG Free SMS Bible Verses
Bible SMS is spreading the Word of God via Text Messaging (SMS). Registration is free, with no fees.Registered members recieve weekly bible verses delivered as a text message directly to their cell phone. This service is currently available nationwide with...
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Free Text/Email Sevice for Military from Tatango
Tatango, the Seattle-based SMS service firm has partnered with eMail Our Military (eMOM), a charitable military support organization, to connect deployed military service members with their loved ones back home through text messaging. Tatango has created an interface exclusively for...
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No More Verizon SMS Confirmatiions, Confirms Broadband Reports
Broadband Reports notes on its website that their forum members report that Verizon Wireless customers are no longer receiving a delivery confirmation notice after sending SMS messages. A Verizon Wireless customer service representative has reportedly confirmed that Verizon did stop that...
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Texting While Driving More Dangerous Than Drinking or Drugging
Drivers who text while driving are more at risk than those who drink or take drugs before getting behind the wheel, a survey by Transport Research Lab showed in a study for the RAC Foundation in the United Kingdom.Reaction times...
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Aura Offers Movie Show Time Text Msgs to Movie Ad Clickers
The Aura Group is offering an expanded and advanced version of its text-from-banner advertising technology, MovieConnect. MovieConnect 2.0 gives more to online movie banner advertisements by automatically identifying the consumer's location and displaying the closest theaters and show times within...
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Obama Wins Text Votes During CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment
SMS text message voters at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment industry tradeshow in San Francisco "elected" Barack Obama the next President of the United States with text messages during the show September 10-12.. Using the mBlox mobile transaction network and...
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Obama's VP TXT Most VIP MSG EVR, Says Nielsen
Nielsen Mobile estimates that 2.9 million US mobile subscribers received a text message from the Obama campaign over the course of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The VP message was sent in the late hours of Friday night and is, by...
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Free Int'l Text Msgs from onesimcard.com All Over World
onesimcard.com, an online provider of International mobile phone service, announced they are now offering FREE SMS (short message service) to their onesimcard.com customers. It’s free to send an SMS to any onesimcard phone, from the onesimcard.com online portal and it...
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No More Twittering in UK
Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over their UK number, due to the high cost from UK mobile operators. Twitter has worked cost-effective deals in Canada, India, and the United States, so that it can provide full incoming and...
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B 1st 2 Know Obama's BFF (Running Mate) By TXT
When Barack Obama chooses his running mate, his campaign will let texters know first According to his website, "You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be part of this important moment."Supporters can...
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Free Olympic Text Alerts from CNN
Clickatell is providing Text Alerts for CNN Olympic coverage. Available now, fans can register from their mobile phones by logging onto the CNN mobile site at http://cnnmobile.com/beijing08 and clicking on "alerts" to begin the registration process. Alternatively, fans can...
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Alltel and Txtstation Mobile Polls & Interactions During Games
Alltel Wireless, and Txtstation announced they will be working together to provide unique promotions to fans at select Alltel sponsored sports properties. As the Official Wireless Partner of FansSM, Alltel will leverage Txtstation’s capabilities and implement a real time text...
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Couch Potatos Text Rant & Cheer on The Score with MyThum
Got a sports opinion to get off your chest, but you don’t want to get off the couch? Now there is a way. The Score Television Network has partnered with MyThum Interactive to deliver the next generation in interactivity for...
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Verizon Txt Msgs Hit Record High - Blocking Available
In the first quarter of 2008, Verizon Wireless delivered nearly 58 billion text messages from coast to coast. But for those looking to control text messaging, such as on their child's cell phone, Verizon Wireless offers numerous consumer-friendly options to...
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78 Million SMS Messsges for Amierican Idol Breaks Record, Says AT&T
AT& announced t that the company has shattered its text messaging record of 64.5 million by generating more than 78 million messages this season of “American Idol” — the most popular show on television. Since AT&T introduced text message voting...
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Email-to-SMS Portal from Amika & Firehot 90% Cheaper
Amika Mobile, the pioneer in the delivery of key mobile content including emergency alerts to any mobile phone, and Firehot Solutions Inc., provider of IT System Management Solutions, announce that they have signed a partnership agreement to offer key Email-to-SMS...
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FCC Approves Mobile Cell Phone Emergency Alerts
The Federal Communications Commission passed guidelines for mobile alerts during emergencies and disasters, named the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) . Wireless carriers that choose to participate in the CMAS will transmit text-based alerts to their subscribers. Consumers can expect...
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Alltel to Offer Text-to-Landline Service.
Messaging International Plc,signed an agreement with Alltel Wireless, to provide itsText-to-Landline service. This application will allow Alltel Wireless subscribers to send text messages from a wireless phone to any landline phone and receive responses back to the wireless phone. With...
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Don't Get Lost This Weekend Call for Free Txt Directions
If you get lost this weekend, remember this number 347-328-4667 -(DIR-ECT-IONS). When you call the number from your mobile phone, the voice recognition technology-based service, will give startpoint and an endpoint (which can be a national business chain as...
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SIM Reader Unlocks Cell Phone Secrets
Brickhouse Security is marketing a SIM reader that can read data on cell phone SIMs including deleted messages and phone numbers.The website helps parents spy with cell phone spy data recovery and extractor. A USB SIM card reader that will...
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2.2 Billion Valentine's Mobile Messages Expected
According to calculations by VeriSign, Inc.the leading provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, a record 2.2 billion mobile messages, including short message service (SMS), and multimedia messaging service messages, are expected to be sent and received across carriers...
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Verizon Increases Text Msg Rate to 15 Cents!
Verizon informed customers that the rate for sending and receiving a text message to North American phones from 10 cents to 15 cents on March 1. There has been a lot of conjecture for this hike, many saying that the...
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