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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 under 12 segment are sending 1,146 messages per month, which is almost f…
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 Go Daddy and the one most talked about, as measured by text traff…
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 mobile information service that provide…
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 show on the subject making cars "No Phone Zones" …
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…
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 dated 2016," Microsoft said in a statement. "T…
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 register, survivors subsc…
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…
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 was killed by someone t…
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…
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