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Distracted Drivers Kill Thousands Each Year
Drivers who were distracted by electronic devices killed around 5,800 people in the United States during 2008, says U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The numbers were presented at a two-day Transportation...
created by Annina Bergman | 7 wks ago | updated 7 wks ago
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Text Researcher Caroline Tagg, Phd in Texting
OMFG. Dr. Caroline Tagg has a Phd in texting. Seriously. Text researcher Caroline Tagg spent more than three years at Birmingham University (time that she'll never get back) studying patterns in text messages. Basically, analyzing how people "spoke" via SMS.Dr. Tagg... A Staten Island teenager fell into a manhole while texting
Texting is useful at times butit is out of order at other times.Driving while texting is dangerous and many have been killed while doing so. It is less dangerous while walking but still it is not a good idea... Alexa Longueira Falls Down Manhole While Texting; Family to Sue
Alexa Longueira, a 15-year-old girl from Staten Island, New York, fell down an open manhole while sending a text message on her cell phone. The hole was about four to five feet deep, though Longueira suffered no serious injuries and was released from Staten Island University... UPDATE: Can 10th graders go for a whole week without electronics?
It had been two days since they used anything. Octavio Cruz didn’t know what to do with himself on the first day so he rearranged his entire room. Jamila Martinez was waking up in the middle of the night, bashing her head into... 10th graders give up electronics for an entire week
In this age of all things digital, most people consider technology to be indispensable to their everyday lives. However, Shannon Meyer's 10th grade advisory class at the California Academy for Liberal... SMS a Success in Disease Warnings
Revealed today in Australia, was the success of using SMS (simple message service,) more commonly known as texting, to warn people that they had been exposed to an inexorably deadly disease. Speed is the key to... WEBTEL.MOBI launches - cutting mobile calling and texting costs by 80% worldwide
Specialized mobile service provider Webtel.mobi launched this week and is cutting the costs for mobile calls and texts worldwide by up to 80%, stunning the international mobile market.
Webtel.mobi can be used... 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...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... 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...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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370 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
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