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SMS could be dangerous – New Zealand woman diagnosed with “text thumb disease”

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By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 at 1:00 PM

sending SMSA New Zealand student has been diagnosed with the country’s first known case of text-messager’s thumb. And before you go “WFT?”, you should know the 20-year-old girl is sending up to 100 text messages a day!

The sad thing is that this isn’t the first such case in the world. Rather it’s the third, a school-aged child in Singapore and a 13 year-old girl in Australia were also diagnosed with what is called the “texting tenosynovitis”…

[Via: textually.org]

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.