All the stories tagged with texting
FireText smoke alarm will automatically text up to four numbers during an emergency
07/11/2011, Smoke alarms are both a blessing and a curse. A curse when you’re cooking or toasting bread, and the minute your culinary creation gets slightly burnt, there goes the alarm. Jokes aside, smoke alarms can be lifesavers, notifying us in [...]
EasySMS allows illiterates to text
06/21/2011, One of the problems illiterate people have with phones is their inability to read text messages. All they can do with their phones is pretty much just make and receive calls. Well, thanks to the mobile interaction design students at [...]
Surgeon General’s Warning: Too much texting and social networking is harmful to your health
11/10/2010, The above title might seem to sound outrageous, but that disclaimer could very well debut in due time, especially after you take into consideration a case study by the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine that links poor health behaviors [...]
StartTalking: Eyes-and-Hands Free Text Messaging Mobile App
09/29/2010, StartTalking VNR (no colorbars) [Mobilize 2010] AdelaVoice is launching StartTalking at Mobilize 2010, a free Android 2.0 application that let’s people dictate messages and listen to messages using voice commands, allowing them to text while driving without having to touch [...]
Texting and Driving Not Much More Dangerous Than Other Bad Driving Behaviours
09/22/2010, According to Insurance Institute for Highway Safety head Adrian Lund, texting and driving isn’t any more dangerous than other bad driving behaviours and that our attention to the issue may be a real distraction from the serious issues of highway [...]
2010 LG U.S. National Texting Championship announces winner
09/21/2010, Are you the fastest thumb in the West? Find out at the 2010 LG U.S. National Texting Championship that happened in New York City, where participants will endure blindfolds, complex phrases and marathon texting throughout the entire event. Part of [...]
Study Finds 72 Percent of Adults Now Texting in U.S.
09/02/2010, The number of texters have increased in America, and the latest study finds that 72 percent of adults in the U.S. are now texting. Some are citing the higher prices of a la carte pay as you go texting options [...]
Microsoft Kin Cloud Phones Launched
04/12/2010, Microsoft has just launched its new phone service called Kin, along with two devices, named Kin 1 (Kin 1 photo gallery) and Kin 2 (Kin 2 photo gallery). The idea was to create a phone for heavy texters and those [...]
