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...
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Textually on 9th Dec 2009 (via textually.org)
Prosecutors say they're investigating a case in which several Colorado middle school students distributed a text message photo of a nude 12-year-old girl. Click here for more.
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CellularNews on 5th Feb 2010 (via feedproxy.google.com)
PC World - A false AMBER Alert concerning a 3-year-old girl abducted by a man in Stockton, Calif., spread rapidly on Twitter Thursday, but the report is a hoax. The phenomenon is a repeat of a July incident, when a similar false alert made the rounds of the micro-blogging site and also spread via cellphone text message.
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Yahoo on 11th Sep 2009 (via us.rd.yahoo.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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PhoneScoop on 3rd Mar 2010 (via phonescoop.com)
Have you ever wanted your friends, family, or coworkers to meet you somewhere but you were not sure of the exact address? Then perhaps Zhiing would be the program to solve the direction woes. Just select who you would like to meet either through text message or email and Zhiing them, the recipient is sent not only the message text but also a ... Related Posts Send Multiple Text Messages With SMSpa...
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Pocketnow on 27th Feb 2010 (via feedproxy.google.com)
This is a great idea, and bound to go down very well with your kids. Balloons is simple: you launch a virtual balloon into the air from your phone. You add a photo and a text message to the label that dangles below the balloon, and send it off. Anyone with the Balloons app can catch
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.
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.
Magicians' Penn & Teller app let's iPhone users perform card tricks and, in the process, convince everyone that theyre friends with the famous illusionists. VentureBeat gives it a review: Basically, you have your friend pick a card from a deck, then you give them your iPhone with the app turned on. The app looks like your standard SMS text message interface, where theyre putative...
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...
