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.
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.
Tampa high school senior Katelyn Blaylock was supposed to be in school at 11:00 on Wednesday morning. She was not.
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Q. Why does a guy say he will call but only text ? Met this guy and then we try to organise our dates- he often said he would call but didn't. Then while I had almost given up- he would send a text very late that day to organise things- but always on the day he said he would call.
More criminal charges were filed Monday against a former Greenfield teacher accused of having sex with a student. Alison M. Peck faces statutory rape and sodomy charges in Dade and Lawrence counties. She now faces four charges.
A spate of "sexting" cases in the US has prompted calls for a change in the law. But what is "sexting" and why has it left parents and prosecutors alike wondering how to tackle it?
Texting is the new calling, which means there's a whole new battleground for romance — and a new set of rules to play by.
The operator of the trolley that rear-ended another trolley Friday night in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, has told investigators that he was text messaging at the time of the accident, which injured 20 people, a transit official said.
Police told lawmakers Thursday they want drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and not on their cell phones. But some lawmakers expressed concern about how a proposed bill banning texting while driving would be enforced.
In an impressive display of having very little to do with your life, two friends attempt to set a record for texting each other the most.
The practice of teens taking naked photos of themselves and sending them to friends via cellphones, called "sexting," has alarmed parents, school officials and prosecutors nationwide, who fear the photos could end up on the Internet or in the hands of sexual predators.
The New York Times reports on Eliot Spitzer's dalliance with prostitutes, forcing him to resign, and then is awarded a Pulitzer for their efforts.
I'm the mom of seven kids. I have five kids of my own and two step daughters. What has been very interesting to me in my personal growth recovery journey is that I've discovered that while I've always loved children - when it comes to teenagers - I have mixed feelings.
Excerpt: The driver who collided with a Boise police patrol car on Interstate 84 Saturday night admitted that he was texting just before the crash, according to Lynn Hightower, Boise police spokeswoman.
CHEYENNE — In one month, a Cheyenne teenager sent 10,000 text messages and received about the same — all while her family's plan did not include texting. That means the family's provider — Verizon — charged them for each incoming and outgoing text message.
CHEYENNE - In one month, a Cheyenne teenager sent 10,000 text messages and received about the same - all while her family's plan did not include texting. That means the family's provider - Verizon - charged them for each incoming and outgoing text.
A California woman received a 6 year prison sentence in a texting-related death.
Texting while driving is stupid, but I'm addicted to it. Sigh. Now I'll become a criminal too.
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Police are investigating complaints from a parent that a teacher at Azalea Middle School text messaged her son pornographic images to his cell phone.
Italians are being urged to abstain from more contemporary pleasures, like texting, Facebook and iPods. It's like declaring war on song and dance... oh, they did that already...
Many within the Republican ranks are beginning to grasp the value of becoming technologically literate. Although their rhetoric will not come of age anytime soon, they will be in a position to spread their Gospel of NO in real time.
Julie Zingeser texts at home, at school, in the car while her mother is driving. She texts during homework, after pompon practice and as she walks the family dog. The Rockville, Md., teen takes her cellphone with her to bed.
Denying she was texting or even had a cell phone, she hid the phone somewhere on her body.
PROVIDENCE — Andrew Bartlett has perfected the art of text messaging while driving. The 19-year-old props the phone against the steering wheel, his thumbs deftly working the keyboard, while his pinkie fingers steer his red Honda coupe.