There's a silly study, conducted by Retrevo, making the rounds that purports to analyze how iPhone users fare in the dating world. I know, right? One stat to whet your beak: one in three iPhone owners have admitted to breaking up with their significant other via text message. Amazing.
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MobileCrunch on 5th Nov 2009 (via mobilecrunch.com)
A man who allegedly wanted to buy some marijuana was arrested after he mistakenly sent a text message to a southern New Jersey police officer.
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Today ZTE announced that it has agreed to ship Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer on ZTE handsets moving forward. The software will add voice control and text-to-speech for text message readout and command confirmation to ZTE phones. ZTE said ...
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more images more images San Francisco - If you are one of those Sprint customers who received the Error 2112 message, dont worry about it because it is a temporary failure to send text messages. If you were thinking to send a text message for an urgent reply, forget about that, at least for today. The network ... Read this article on Gaea Times at : Sprint Error 2112 Update.
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Los Angeles - AT&T (NYSE: T) has activated multimedia messaging (MMS) for Apple (NASD: AAPL) iPhone owners in the U.S. The service has been available since June for iPhone owners in other countries. U.S. subscribers received a text message notifying them of the new feature, which is commonplace on other smartphones. read more
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Macworld.com - Donât fear the square text message! British wireless provider O2 told the BBC that Apple will shortly be rolling out a patch for the recently uncovered SMS vulnerability that could allow hackers to remotely take control of phones.
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A teenage girl committed suicide a month after graduating from high-school because her ex-boyfriend sent his friends a nude photo of her that she had sent to him by text message while they were dating. The Huffington Post reports. The complaint filed by the teen's parents names the city, school district, ex-boyfriend, and the friends to whom he purportedly sent the picture. The couple are see...
To change the sound your iPhone makes when receiving a new text message, you can go into the stock Settings application then the Sounds option and then the New Text Message option.
Trials are underway of a UK service allowing people to contact emergency services by text message, reports the BBC. The system is aimed at people who cannot make normal voice calls to the 999 service due to disability. The service sends the text to a voice relay assistant who then speaks the text message to the emergency service and then texts back their reply. If successful, the system would beco...
Tuesday, the Obama team sent out text messages about State of the Union Address, reports The Examiner. The text messages were sent to urge people to attend watch parties for the State of the Union address on Wednesday night. The text message list was put together during Obamas presidential campaign and now the Democratic National Committee has a copy of the list.
A new iPhone app launched yesterday that allows users to send text messages that won't linger - if you don't want them to. Inspired by Tiger Woods text messaging woes, the app called TigerText, deletes texts from both users phones. From the Tiger Text website here's how it works: When you send a regular text message, the message is sent from your phone, routed through a server, and ...
