The European Commission has adopted new rules to make it easier for passengers and crew on ships in the EU's territorial waters to make mobile phone calls or send and receive text messages when they are out of range of land-based mobile phone networks.

Audio text messaging could soon be coming to the iPhone if a recent patent application filed by Apple with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is anything to go by. In the filing, Apple notes that conventional text messages may not be easily readable under certain circumstances due...

The European Commission has adopted new rules to make it easier for passengers and crew on ships in the EU's territorial waters to make mobile phone calls or send and receive text messages when they are out of range of...

If you travel around the world, we feel your pain when it comes to text messages. You dont have a lot of options. For AT&T customers, you can go ahead and get that International Roaming plan, where you pay-per-use for those text messages you more than likely send. But, you know, that can get pretty

Not one for gossip but we have said that text messages can get you into trouble, well the latest news and hot news at that comes via New York Post about Tiger Woods text messages to Joslyn James. Tiger Woods, is getting ready for the Golf Masters 2010 next month, and he could do without this

The European Commission has adopted new rules to make it easier for passengers and crew on ships in the EU's territorial waters to make mobile phone calls or send and receive text messages when they are out of range of land-based mobile phone networks. Click here for more.

Google has recently presented a new widget for Android handsets, which works with the recently launched Google Buzz service.In other words, the Google Buzz Widget can be placed on the home screen of your Android for easier and quicker access. Users can easily create text messages and attach images directly from the widget, which is able to access the camera controls as well as the gallery.At the

Per a recently published patent application, Apple has been exploring a new feature that could allow iPhone users to transmit data such as simple text messages to each other over voice channels, bypassing wireless carriers’ backend servers in a manner similar to Nextel's classic walkie-talkie feature. Per AppleInsider, the concept is detailed in a company patent filing made this pa...

Vlingo, a very common and powerful speech-to-text tool for smartphone users, has announced a limited beta for the Android platform. Vlingo allows you to speak your emails, text messages, calls and searches and watch the text appear on the screen right before your eyes. For users one the go, this application makes long winded emails, or on the go text messages a breeze. For your chance to get in on...

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is looking at a number of new ways to increase the functionality of the iPhone, though they sound fairly far into the improbable end of things. The concept is a way of bypassing the need to send text messages via a backend server, which might be limited in the amount of