When the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia suggested that students in the area try giving up their cell phones, computers, iPods and video games for 10 days, David Silver didn’t think much of the idea. Live without text messages? He couldn’t do that for an hour, much less 10 days.
EU lawmakers voted Wednesday for a new price cap that will cut the cost of sending text messages from abroad by nearly two-thirds.
A federal judge says Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons can be questioned in a civil suit filed by a former administrator who claims she was improperly fired from the governor's office.
Members of the Billerica board of selectmen voted 3-2 Monday night to ban its members from sending text messages and e-mails during its public meetings.
Soon after US Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport, Vallie Collins heard a boom and started smelling smoke. When the captain urged passengers to brace for impact, she immediately reached for her phone.
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Megan Brinkman was initially psyched to (finally) be going on a formal date with a guy who politely asked her out. So during dinner, her jaw dropped when he began texting wildly.
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Nevada's governor, already facing a lawsuit from a woman claming he threatened to rape her, is now being sued by a government staffer who claims she was forced from her old job because he thought she was leaking information about his personal use of a state cell phone.
The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a law making it illegal to read or send text messages while driving in California.
Apparently, the warning applies to everyone, from college student Danielle Gonzales to Barack Obama’s adviser, Valerie Jarrett: Don’t walk and text at the same time. Gonzales, a 19-year-old sophomore at San Diego State University, admits she’s stumbled more than once while sending texts on the street. “I’ve definitely tripped over things sometimes like the little cracks in the ground,” she said. “I have to remember to look up.”
After catching one of two people wanted in a series of break-ins, deputies in North Carolina let their fingers do the chasing to catch a second suspect.
Is anybody else creeped out by that AT&T GoPhone commercial starring chart-topping American rock singer Meat Loaf? You know, the one where he’s out working in the garage or something and actor Adam Cagley (in the role of Meat Loaf’s beefy teenage son) starts whining about wanting a GoPhone.
Anna Morales never saw texting as a way to discuss the big things.
4gt yr meds? Getting kids to remember their medicine may be a text message away. Cincinnati doctors are experimenting with texting to tackle a big problem: Tweens and teens too often do a lousy job of controlling chronic illnesses like asthma, diabetes or kidney disease.
Michelle Kratschmer's family was craving the usual — a large pepperoni pizza and a small pie with black olives and cheese — but how she entered the phone order was entirely new.
When Robert Gillespie looked up from his text message, he saw a freight train. EOM. ("End of message," that is, for non-texters.) Eugene police say Gillespie's car crashed into the side of the Union Pacific freight train about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
You can send a text message to cast your vote for an American Idol. You can send one to get registration forms to vote for president. Many teens and young adults "text" as a way to flirt or chat through a boring lecture.