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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 to Haiti follow:Text the word "Ye…
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 Red Cross donations for Haiti. The response to the disaster in Haiti has…
Oprah’s No Phone Zone Pledges to Stop Texting and Cell Calls While Driving
Oprah calls it "America's new deadly" obsession, texting, emailing and calling while driving. Oprah's show today illustrates the great tragedies that happen due to distracted driving.Oprah urges her viewers to take a pledge. So far over 20,000 people have taken the No Phone Zone pledge:I pledg…
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 donations come in at an increasing pace. MGF wil…
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 for funds rais…
Text Relief Money to American Red Cross in Haiti Text HAITI to 90999
Wireless customers can send $10 donations to the Red Cross International Relief Fund to help earthquake victims in Haiti.Type in the word HAITI and send it to 90999. A confirmation message will arrive within a few minutes, to which the customer replies "yes" to finalize the donation. 100 perce…
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 that have been electronically tagged.When a s…
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 CTIA, 4.1 billion text messages are sent ever…
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 and dictation apps for smartphones and …
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 from the abstract include:In 2007, the average consumer…
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 response, they will receive a message informing them which …
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 for larger-scale public health initiatives…
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 percent…
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 1224 between now and Dec. 24 will receive an invitati…
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 customers who activat…
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 are …
60% of Teens Admit to Reading Txt While Driving, Says Vlingo
Teens have very distracted driving habits according to second annual Vlingo Consumer Mobile Messaging Habits Report The Vlingo report finds 60 percent of teens admit to reading incoming text messages while driving. Text messaging has overtaken the phone as the primary communications medium for tee…
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 iPhone app for traffic updates while using an i…
“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 show "That's Not Co…
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 Association's Center o…
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