Schwarzenegger signs bill banning texting by motorists

California will ban drivers from sending text messagesn while driving, after the governor signed legislation banning the practice into law. Since July, California drivers have been banned from using their cell phones...

Capturing the Moment (and More) via Cellphone Video

Cell phones, the internet, blogs and web streaming technology have created an almost seamless interaction between any event you witness and the world wide web. "STILL keeping in touch with friends by texting? How old-fashioned. Some early adopters of technology are now using...

Drivers face jail if found texting in UK

With the increased use of mobile phones people are indulged in chatting or texting even during driving. Now a new law in Britain  will make it difficult for the motorists who read or write text...

Twitter Survives Earthquake

When disaster strikes, utilites tend to fail. With mobile phones, this is particularly likely, as damage to infrastructure is also going to damage a few mobile phone antennae. In the case of yesterday's earthquake in Los Angeles, people had difficulty communicating via phone,...

OMG! LG MOBILE PHONES HAS NAMED A NEW TEXTING CHAMPION

The Second Annual LG National Texting Competition has come to a close, and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) has crowned another victor in their quest for fast and furious thumbs. On July 9,...

LG gives away $50,000 to textr's

NEW YORK CITY, July 9th - Today in the Roseland Ballroom in midtown Manhattan hundreds of eager text messaging teens gathered to compete in the LG National Texting Championship. The competition which is an...

Researchers Studying 'Texting' as its own Language

Oh how I long for someone to release a mashed-up, remixed version of that early-90s Color Me Badd hit...reimagined as "I Wanna Txt U Up".Those crazy kids, they're using their telephones for writing! What will they...

Release: Len Brody at Digital Hollywood, LA

If you're going to Digital Hollywood next week be sure to say hello to NowPublic co-founder, Len Brody.  He'll be on an interesting panel." Personalized Mobile is becoming the new broadband, perhaps even...

Email is So 2 Seconds Ago: ID-Based Conversations

So now they're talking about how email is old-school. Great. Just when I was getting used to pruning my inbox... ""E-mail has died away for a group of users. For the younger generation, they don't use e-mail," he...

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Texting - A New Way Of Life In The Philippines

"In our country, the Philippines,a major communication company is now running a TV Ad proclaiming it has reached its 25 millionth cellphone subscriber,and still going strong. It has two major competitors in the industry, and they are mum on their number of cellphone...

Beauty And The Web 2.0 - Contest Meets mCode Symbology :: Symblogogy

" Recently Smart Communications introduced a service to its customers that allowed the cellphone owner to gain automated connections in a streamlined symbology method they call Decode. Decode, based on a symbology...

China: Draft bill details sexual harassment

"Shanghai - Telling sexist jokes, emailing porn to colleagues or sexually-salacious texting are all set to be outlawed under a draft bill currently under review by the city authorities. Once approved by the Standing Committee of the Shanghai People's Congress, the Shanghai...

It's rcrd! Man snds 5.5 lakh SMSes

"Software engineer, Nitin Thakor has set a new record of sending over five-and-a-half lakh SMSs in just 30 days."

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