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TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Apr 2, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- Amazon.com Inc.'s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps ontheir cell phones. Amazon TextBuyIt, which launched late Tuesday, lets people.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 11:13am neoform

BBC News -- A virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks. Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image. The scrambled text images come from.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 9:36am neoform

New York Times -- Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program. T.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Nov 10, 2006 @ 1:40pm mrmdc

Ars Technica -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) isn't known for thinking small, and DARPA has turned its attention (and budget) to a massive task: developing a set of software engines that can transcribe, translate, and summarize both text and spee.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Fri Oct 20, 2006 @ 9:26am neoform

Forbes -- The political firestorm over former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's salacious instant messages hides another issue, one about privacy. We are rapidly turning into a society where our intimate conversations can be saved and made public later. This represents an en.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed May 14, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- When fierce storms hit California in early January, submerging streets and felling power lines, Steve Livingston was prepared. Armed with a text message alert from the San Mateo County Office of Emergency Services, he dodged the flood and made it home saf.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- A virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks. Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image. The scrambled text images come from.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Oct 23, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- The popular online social network Facebook Inc. is being sued by an Indiana woman who alleges it has profited from its members sending thousands of unauthorized text messages to mobile phone users whose numbers previously belonged to other people. The.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:39pm neoform

Washington Post -- If Sen. Barack Obama is your guy, dial 62262 -- which spells "Obama" -- on your cellphone and text "Go." For supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, punch in 77007 and text "Join." Text "Today" to 30644 if you're a fan of former senator John Edwards... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- By the hundreds of thousands, the urgent text messages ricocheted around cellphones in Xiamen, warning of a catastrophe that would spoil the city's beautiful seaside environment and foul its sweet-smelling tropical breezes. By promoting the constructio.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 1:11pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The rising popularity of text messaging on cell phones poses a threat to writing standards among Irish schoolchildren, an education commission says. The frequency of errors in grammar and punctuation has become a serious concern, the State Examination.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 8:34pm neoform

BBC News -- Mobile-phone text messaging in Cambodia has been suspended for the weekend, so that users are not bombarded with political texts during an election. The National Election Committee has asked phone networks to turn off the service until after the polls.. Read More