A British Lord is to be prosecuted for alleged dangerous driving after it was claimed that he had sent a text message from his mobile phone, just moments before a fatal road accident. Lord Ahmed, a Labour peer in the House of Lords was involved in an accident on Christmas Day last year when it hit another motorist who was killed instantly. Checks later carried out found that the same phone which w...

A British Lord is to be prosecuted for alleged dangerous driving after it was claimed that he had sent a text message from his mobile phone, just moments before a fatal road accident.

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The XPERIA X1 is a fantastic device, but it's not without faults. As we cited in the review, the X1 lacks a bit in the one-handed usability department: there's no hardware Start menu button and no finger-friendly keyboard for quick text message replies without having to slide open the keyboard, among other things. Well, here are two little apps to increase one-handed usability on the XPE...

Passengers can use a text message on their phone as a boarding pass.

This fairly long video shows you how to create a mail trigger in Outlook to shut down your PC or Mac whenever you send a text message to your mailbox.

Amazon is now offering Text Alerts for Daily Deals  Customers then can then reply-to-buy with the text command "buygb" or follow the link in the text message to the Amazon mobile website to view the full details of the deal and shop other deals in the Gold Box directly from the mobile phone. "Customers come to Amazon.com for low prices," said Eva Manolis, vice president of Retail Customer Exp...

Internet retail giant Amazon.com announced the introduction of Text Alerts for Daily Deals, a mobile alert program enabling shoppers to purchase the site's Gold Box Deal of the Day item via wireless device. According to Amazon.com, customers who sign up for the daily SMS alerts may either reply-to-buy with the text command "buygb" or follow the link in the text message to the company's m...

So many people were signing up to follow Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's short text message updates on Twitter last night that his new page on the social networking site crashed. [via The Sydney Morning Herald] Previously: - Australian Prime Minister joins Twitter

Amazon.com is trying to help consumers during the economic downturn by launching a new service that will alert consumers by text message about low-priced items of the day. Customers can now sign up for a daily text alert at www.amazon.com/gp/anywhere/sms/goldbox or simply text 'GB' to '262966' (AMAZON) which will feature the popular Amazon.com Deal of the Day, sent directly to ...