Tag: TEXTS

Back in December, we told you about a group of police officers in Ontario, California, who filed a lawsuit against their chief because he read scandalous text messages they sent on city-provided pagers. Now, nearly seven months later, the Supreme Court has weighed in (in spite of their technological ignorance), and have come down in favor of the snooping police chief. The court's unanimous ...

To make sure your BlackBerry displays type in a readable, easy way, go to the 'Applications Menu' and select 'Options.' From there, hit 'Screen/Keyboard' and select from the items below to adjust them to suit your preferences. Font Family: Experiment with different fonts. 'System' is small and thin, while 'BB Serif Fixed' is larger and easier to read. Font Size: Choose the smallest size ...

As relief efforts on the earthquake-ravaged island of Haiti continue, social media and mobile technology are playing an increasingly important role in assisting rescue workers. While millions of people have been texting monetary donations from abroad, many others in the eye of the disaster are using texts and tweets to communicate with volunteers, and to help them save lives. With even the ...

Wikileaks normally deals in sensitive information from whistle-blowers inside governments and companies. But its latest project, a collection of pager and text messages sent on the morning of September 11, 2001, crosses from simple news dissemination and political activism to a work of art. Starting the morning of November 25, at 3 a.m., Wikileaks began "broadcasting" over 500,000 messages ...

The new uses for texting just keep on coming. A week after hearing that trial lawyers used text messaging (unsuccessfully) in a witness's testimony, we now hear about a plan to help sufferers of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, to cope with their depression by using text alerts of particularly dire weather forecasts. SAD affects people who become depressed due to a lack of light when the ...