items tagged with Texting
PEW report: Teens, parents continue to text and drive
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-11-17 08:10:02
According to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, about 25% of teenagers in the United States are texting while driving. They see their parents texting and driving, too!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-11-17 08:10:02
According to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, about 25% of teenagers in the United States are texting while driving. They see their parents texting and driving, too!
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YouTube dramatizes danger of texting and driving
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2009-09-02 08:18:32
A YouTube video from a police department in Gwent, Wales, dramatically shows the dangers of texting while driving a motorized vehicle.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2009-09-02 08:18:32
A YouTube video from a police department in Gwent, Wales, dramatically shows the dangers of texting while driving a motorized vehicle.
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Earth to Gliese 581d, anyone there?
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-28 00:25:14
The search for human life beyond mother earth is one of those endless pursuits that never ceases to fascinate and intrigue we earthlings. So far, however, there’s been a deathly silence from outerspace to all the signals sent so far, but that’s no deterrent to Australian website, Hello From Earth, which today sent off a new signal to a far off planet with text messages from 25,000 people from all over the world.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-28 00:25:14
The search for human life beyond mother earth is one of those endless pursuits that never ceases to fascinate and intrigue we earthlings. So far, however, there’s been a deathly silence from outerspace to all the signals sent so far, but that’s no deterrent to Australian website, Hello From Earth, which today sent off a new signal to a far off planet with text messages from 25,000 people from all over the world.
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Texting and driving may be a thing of the past
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-07-29 07:56:07
If U.S. lawmakers have their way, then texting while driving your motorized vehicle will be illegal in the United States. It’s just another example that when people are not responsible for their own health and safety, then government must come in with new laws to force health and safety upon its citizens. Such actions should be applauded because they keep responsible citizens safe from irresponsible people!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-07-29 07:56:07
If U.S. lawmakers have their way, then texting while driving your motorized vehicle will be illegal in the United States. It’s just another example that when people are not responsible for their own health and safety, then government must come in with new laws to force health and safety upon its citizens. Such actions should be applauded because they keep responsible citizens safe from irresponsible people!
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Australia an SMS mad nation says new report
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Reports & Surveys
2009-06-21 17:46:32
Australia has long held a reputation of being a nation of sports fanatics but the country is now rapidly adopting the mantle of being a land of crazed SMS text fanatics. According to a new report, far from using SMS for just essential services, Australians will text each other for anything and at practically all life events - and hang the expense!
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Reports & Surveys
2009-06-21 17:46:32
Australia has long held a reputation of being a nation of sports fanatics but the country is now rapidly adopting the mantle of being a land of crazed SMS text fanatics. According to a new report, far from using SMS for just essential services, Australians will text each other for anything and at practically all life events - and hang the expense!
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?4U: Does texting hurt ability to spell?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-05 09:27:00
British researchers studied pre-teenage children and found that they excelled in school reading and writing tests and spelling bees even though they spell "what" as "wot" in text messages.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-05 09:27:00
British researchers studied pre-teenage children and found that they excelled in school reading and writing tests and spelling bees even though they spell "what" as "wot" in text messages.
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Oh crap – I just dropped my phone down the loo!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-18 21:48:31
Although Microsoft’s new survey on mobile phone usage in the bathroom/toilet/lavatory makes no mention of bathroom based mobile mishaps, with nearly 50% of Aussies using their phones in the so-called “rest room”, why didn’t they ask this question?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-18 21:48:31
Although Microsoft’s new survey on mobile phone usage in the bathroom/toilet/lavatory makes no mention of bathroom based mobile mishaps, with nearly 50% of Aussies using their phones in the so-called “rest room”, why didn’t they ask this question?
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iPhone OS 2.1 – will it be a panacea or more purgatory?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-17 09:33:29
Theoretically coming September is Apple’s iPhone (and iPod Touch) OS 2.1, which is supposed to have “Core Location” GPS services, more bug fixes (which OS 2.0.1 didn’t really fix) and the “push notification” services that are a substitute for programs running in the background – but this has just been taken out OS 2.1 beta 4. Will 2.1 be a panacea for suffering OS 2.0 users – or just more purgatory?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-17 09:33:29
Theoretically coming September is Apple’s iPhone (and iPod Touch) OS 2.1, which is supposed to have “Core Location” GPS services, more bug fixes (which OS 2.0.1 didn’t really fix) and the “push notification” services that are a substitute for programs running in the background – but this has just been taken out OS 2.1 beta 4. Will 2.1 be a panacea for suffering OS 2.0 users – or just more purgatory?
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No more text Twittering in the UK
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-14 06:32:35
Twitter is all about instant mobile communication between its social network of Twitterers, but not if you are British it would seem...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-14 06:32:35
Twitter is all about instant mobile communication between its social network of Twitterers, but not if you are British it would seem...
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Sexy texting in Scotland punishable by 10 year prison term
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-06-22 09:28:31
A new crime of 'communicating indecently' covering both email and text messaging has been announced in Scotland. Randy Scots who send messages of a sexual nature could face up to 10 years in jail as a result of the new Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-06-22 09:28:31
A new crime of 'communicating indecently' covering both email and text messaging has been announced in Scotland. Randy Scots who send messages of a sexual nature could face up to 10 years in jail as a result of the new Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill.
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