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Embroidered text messages

Nifty little craft project... a love story via text message, made permanent with an old-fashioned technique. Love it!

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Vegetarians And Terrorists Sending Tweets?

OMG, Srrsly? Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist network may have stepped up from texting to Twitter to communicate and organize... more

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Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers

The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. ... more

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How to say I Luv U in Nigeria

Your mobile phone beeps, you have received a text message. It begins: "I swear, I will make sure I give you HIV..." ... more

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Secret Texting

Post Secret's MySpace blog has a new way for users to share their deep dark secrets.

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Train engineer texted 22 seconds before LA crash

LOS ANGELES - A commuter train engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into... more

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Pam from nbc the office showed us what she had been working on in art school.

Created using www.artext.co.uk check the gallery out

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Wowness. u can draw with text and ascii

ascii tool where you can actually draw like a picture

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Texting Caused Deadly L.A. Train Crash?

Federal officials investigating a commuter rail collision that killed 26 people said they want to review cell phone records to... more

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Do Text Messages Cost Too Much?

A key lawmaker and a consumer group are pressuring wireless carriers to explain why prices for text messages have doubled in the last three years as the technology has surged in popularity over the same period.

Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee, sent a letter earlier this week to the largest wireless carriers demanding answers for why they've raised their prices for individual text messages outside of flat-rate monthly data plans to 20 cents from 10 cents since 2005. The increases aren't justified, he said, given the lower operational costs to the carrier to send the short code messages.

"It appears that each of (the) companies has changed the price for text messaging at nearly the same time, with identical price increases," Kohl wrote in the letter. "This conduct is hardly consistent with the vigorous price competition we hope to see in a competitive marketplace."

He asked the Chief Executives of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile to report by Oct. 6 how much its costs them to send text messages compared to how much they've charged their customers over the last three years.

Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson said the company is reviewing Kohl's letter and plans to respond to him directly.

He said that the cost of text messages is declining, however, because of monthly flat-rate plans that allow, for example, unlimited text messages.

"A teenager can easily send and receive hundreds of text a day - with our $20 unlimited plan (per month) that's fractions of a penny per message," Nelson said.

Consumers Union sent letters to heads of the Senate Commerce Committee and Judiciary Subcommittee to investigate the texting price increases and whether they are the result of a consolidating industry and less competition.

The group said that 600 text messages contain less data than a 1 minute phone call. It said that at 20 cents a text message, wireless carriers would collect $120 for 600 messages.

"Does $120 for the equivalent of one minute of voice seem reasonable?" the group wrote in the letters. "Or do these usurious rates evidence an extraordinary amount of market power?"

The two largest wireless carriers - AT&T and Verizon Wireless - have a combined subscriber base that is two times as large as the number of subscribers for T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel. Their leads in the wireless industry was strengthened earlier this year after they bought up the most spectrum in an auction by the Federal Communications Commission. The auction was for valuable wireless airwaves that can penetrate walls and other obstructions. Verizon also announced its purchase of regional carrier Alltel for $28 billion, which is under regulatory review by the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission.

Just how popular has texting become? CTIA released a study this week that showed the number of texts sent in June rose 10-fold to 75 billion messages from the same month three years ago.A key lawmaker and a consumer group are pressuring wireless carriers to explain why prices for text messages have doubled in the... more

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2 months ago

Text-Messaging Rates Come Under Scrutiny

The top four wireless providers in the U.S. are being asked by a senior senator to account for their text-messaging prices. ... more

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2 months ago

The Text Message Debate

Do you think IMing and text messaging diminishes your understanding of the English language? A new book from a linguistics expert... more

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3 months ago

Police text couple asking them to investigate a burglary themselves

Having seen a man break into next doors shed, steal some stuff, then escape over the fence, Lloyd and Suzanne Bishop decided they... more

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3 months ago

Will text messaging be the death of Hebrew?

Its revival is often hailed as one of the greatest feats of the Zionist enterprise; today, Hebrew is the first language of... more

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3 months ago

Textese May Be the Death of English (LOL)

... As soon as linguists began to peer into the uproar over texting, researchers examined the effects of texting experimentally.... more

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4 months ago

Warning: Texting May Be Harmful to your (Physical) Health!

Doctors are concerned with the number of injuries associated with "text messaging" while doing other activities, such as... more

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4 months ago

Certain Text Message Vanity Plates Banned

LOL!! The growth of text messaging abbreviations is adding to the list of prohibited letter combinations on Colorado license plates.

WTF, a cyberspace-saving abbreviation for, to put it more mildly, "What the heck is going on here," has been added to a lengthy list of 261 three-letter combinations that the state considers verboten on the standard-issue six-character plate.

OMG! What's next?

It used to be that motor vehicle officials had to worry only about the sexually offensive, racially bigoted, scatologically suggestive or biologically functioning references. Now they need a 14-year-old iPhone 3G-carrying technogeek member of the committee to pass on some of the tri-letter possibilities.

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Charter members of the list are obvious ones you've never seen on a green-and- white tag: KKK, ASS and any derivative of the king of banished words, the one that begins with F.

Others have been added to the list even though they might have been issued in the past, such as GAG.

GAY and FAG are on the prohibited list but FGT isn't. Nor can you drive like HEL or have a DUI, although you could be stopped for D.U.I. You can't be a COP or with the CIA, FBI or CSP, but your plate can say DPD.

You'll find no HOE, HOR or HQR cruising the streets.

Doesn't it stink that you can't have a plate that says PEW? No POO or PEE either. You can't be DUM although you can drive like you are. And is it unfair that the crazy woman driver ahead of you can't get a plate with PMS on it, or the road-rager guy can't have SOB?

And you won't get a UFO plate no matter how bizarre your ride looks.

Even if you're Just Married, you can't get WED. And HUY may seem innocuous unless you speak Russian. But take it from us, you wouldn't drive around Moscow with it.

Your plate can't be a JEW or a JAP or a HUN or a WOP. GOD can't be your co-pilot. Nor can DOG or an ark of living creatures including CAT, SOW, PUP, APE, PIG, HOG, HEN, RAT and BUG, although you might wish the state could ban the ones smeared across your windshield.LOL!! The growth of text messaging abbreviations is adding to the list of prohibited letter combinations on Colorado license... more