Tag: TXT

We reported just a few weeks ago about the NFL's new "Electronic Lifeline" system that allows fans who aren't having a family-friendly and fun time at games to get help from security without having to leave their seats. Now, the NFL is confirming that the service will be making an appearance at this year's Super Bowl XLIII, set to kick off on February 1, 2009 in Tampa Bay, Florida. Visitors of the ...

We'll admit it. We've been chased out of a big box retailer or two for taking pictures of products and writing notes on prices. It seems comparison shopping isn't something these stores want their customers to be doing. But in comes Amazon.com to the rescue. The giant online retailer announced a new service called TextBuyIt for a little comparison shopping and buying, and it's as easy as ...

They say kids these days don't read. In Japan, however, teens are back into reading novels big-time with one major difference: They're reading them on cell phones. Mobile novels (called "keitai" in Japan), books written for the cell phone screen, have taken off with startling success in the east. These serial-based novels are delivered in read-on-the-corner byte-sized chunks on a regular basis ...

Mobile, instant, always-on access to everyone you know is the new obnoxious forefront in communications technology. A new start-up calling itself Trumpia, has decided to take the obsession with constant communication to its absurd illogical extreme. Sign up with Trumpia, then betray your own sense of decency by inputting all of your friends' contact info ... and we mean all of it. Input, e-mail, ...

Parents are used to monitoring what their kids watch on TV, what video games they play and where they go online. But, who thought you'd ever need a V-chip for homework? The parents of Jackson Middle School sixth graders in Grand Prairie, Texas, received a shock recently when the kids came home with a rather naughty math assignment. For homework, they'd been asked by the teacher to decode ...

This past June, AOL conducted a survey of 4,025 Internet users to study the behavior of we humans and our relationship to e-mail. The survey covered everything from how many e-mail accounts people have, to how they feel when they're busted checking personal e-mail at work, to where they check e-mail on portable devices (church, the bathroom and from behind the wheel were all answers given). The ...

No, the Russians haven't managed to send vodka as text message attachments (yet), but they have launched an interesting new service to let drinkers determine the origin of their headache-inducing drink of choice. Russians who send a text message to a state-funded hotline containing the bottle's serial number will receive a response indicating the validity of the bottle in question. Why worry ...

Last week, we reported on British mountaineer Rod Barber's plans to make the world's first phone call from the top of Mt. Everest. This week we're happy to report that he made it to the top and completed not one, but two phone calls. He also somehow managing to keep his thumbs thawed out long enough to send a text message. The calls and text are made possible thanks to a new mobile base station ...

As The Yankees -- baseball's usual juggernaut of power and finesse -- spiral into last place, the players are turning to their cell phones and text messaging to try to get some help. According to an ESPN sideline reporter, Yankees Slugger Jason Giambi has been bombarding power pitcher Roger Clemens with text messages, begging him to come back to the Yankees for a bail-out. Clemens has done this ...