Tag: TEXT MESSAGING

For those who simply want to blast their missives into the depths of space, SentForever.com has served admirably well since 2007. But, if you're really looking to reach out and touch someone -- a non-human someone -- then HelloFromEarth.net might be a more appropriate destination. In celebration of National Science Week in Australia, the site is collecting text messages from people hoping to get ...

Proving that you really can study anything you want in college, Dr. Caroline Tagg has received a Ph.D. for studying text messaging. The 33-year-old academic spent the last three-and-a-half years studying the use of language in texts at England's Birmingham University English department. For the purposes of her research, Tagg had 235 volunteers send her every text message they sent or received, ...

A month after first announcing that the iPhone had a serious security flaw in how it handled text messages (and even longer still since it was first brought to Apple's attention), Charlie Miller at last publicly demonstrated the attack at yesterday's Black Hat Security Conference, and released a paper detailing how it is executed. The flaw, which allows a hacker to hijack a phone by flooding it ...

Charlie Miller (the man who hacked the MacBook Air in two minutes) and his partner-in-crime, Collin Mulliner, plan to unveil an exploit at this Thursday's Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Apparently, it would let a hacker take complete control of the iPhone with nothing more than a simple text message. By taking advantage of a flaw in how the handset handles text messages, Miller ...

Many emerging nations have cellular access, but Internet service is still fleeting, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. In an attempt to disseminate information to Ugandans, Google has teamed up with African cell provider MTN to distribute information, free-of-charge, via text message to a culture that is text -- but not Internet -- savvy. The program, which teams the American Web giant with the ...

If you've ever wondered what "LOL" or "BRB" means, the kind folks at MyFox Atlanta have you covered -- and then some. They've put together a list of important Internet acronyms so you're able to share with your little ones in the joy of SMS/AIM/MSN. (If you don't know what those stand for, do yourself a favor and don't even bother.) The list runs the gamut from the obvious ("420" = marijuana), ...

According to a new study, 'Sexting' may have less to do with sex than its titillating title implies. Susan Lipkins, a psychologist from Port Washington, NY, found that people who sent sexually explicit messages were more focused on attaining power and control than people who didn't send explicit messages. According to USA Today, Lipkins polled 323 people, of which a surprising 66-percent ...

We've seen people caught texting while driving cars, buses, motorcycles, and trains. We can now add to that list: texting in a trolley. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) announced over the weekend that a 24-year-old Boston trolley operator admitted to texting his girlfriend just before the trolley he was piloting slammed into another, injuring about 50 people, on Friday, May 8. ...

If the dating scene leaves you feeling isolated and lovelorn, don't fret. To pull you out of that hole of self-pity, two enterprising young women have published a guide for how to "text your way to love," titled 'Flirtexting.' Directed toward women, but applicable to men as well, the book addresses age old mysteries of romance and woo, such as when and how to reply to flirtateous text messages. ...

Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> We really shouldn't have to be saying this anymore, but texting while driving is a bad idea. Texting on the road has been blamed for several deaths, and compared to the danger of driving drunk. It's ...

A couple of very bored Pennsylvania men decided to gun for the world record number of text messages sent in a month, and, over the next four weeks, went about clogging the airwaves with 217,000 SMS messages. The pair, Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were a little shocked, however, when T-Mobile went about clogging Andes's mail box with a $26,000 cell phone bill. Despite having an unlimited ...

Some phones today can have pretty dramatic security functions; case in point, the iPhone will erase itself if you screw up entering your password 10 times in a row. Unfortunately, all a hacker really needs to bypass your password and take over your phone is a simple text message. In a series of proof-of-concept videos posted on YouTube, Dan Dearing (Vice President of marketing at Trust Digital) ...

Just as those of us in the States have (hopefully) done this month, the citizens of Sweden will file their income taxes in May. Unlike us, though, many of them will do so with a few simple clacks on their cell phones' keypads. Over the past five years, an increasing number of Swedes have taken to their government's method of filing taxes via text message, according to CNET. Of course, these tales ...

We've seen teens send out 14,000, 15,000, and even over 40,000 text messages in one month, so one girl's firing off 10,000 texts in one month shouldn't really shock us all that much. But the tale of Dena Christoffersen has two ingredients that make it much more interesting than the other tales of texting addiction we've shared before: no text messaging plan, and an angry parent with a hammer. ...

If you've let your voicemail box clog up with messages that you've already returned, or that you know you don't need to check, you're not alone. As a result of several factors, including the ongoing text messaging boom and the growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, voicemail use is on the wane may soon be as relevant as a cassette-tape answering machine or a ...