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MetroPCS and textPlus are teaming up to make it easier to send out mass text messages for free. If you don’t know, textPlus offers apps which enable iPod, iPhone and other smartphone users to send and receive free text messages. MetroPCS already offers unlimited text messaging with its monthly unlimited plans, but the deal will…
Facebook is using SMS and texting to try and make logging in more secure. On its blog, the world’s largest social network said: Simply text “otp” to 32665 on your mobile phone, and you’ll immediately receive a password that can be used only once and expires in 20 minutes. In order to access this feature,…
Twitter has just named Dick Costolo as its new CEO and we can’t help but wonder what this will mean for the micro-blogging’s mobile strategy. As you may know, Twitter has strong mobile roots because it started as an SMS-focused service. That 140-character limit is strictly tied with the limits of SMS and the company…
U.S. Senator Tom Udall is trying to help customers avoid a huge bill – as well as pander to some voters during election season – by introducing legislation which would require carriers to notify users when they are near their monthly allotment of minutes, text or data. That’s right folks, he wants to reduce cell…
Since the year is 2010, AT&T has finally decided to do something it should have long ago: deliver your home voicemails to your smartphone. Right now, the service is only available to U-Verse customers. Those customers can view and manage their home messages as visual voicemails on their smartphones. Personally, I take all my calls…
A study came out a few days ago which indicated that bans on texting while driving has not led to a decrease in car crashes. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was not happy about this study and he’s firing back. In a blog post, LaHood questioned the authenticity of the study, which was conducted by…
A new study shows that law which ban texting while driving have not had a significant impact on curbing the behavior and it hasn’t decreased the amount of car crashes. The Highway Loss Data Institute compared the crash rates of states with texting while driving laws with states that don’t have these requirements and the…
The baseline for what’s considered decent human behavior has been slowly slipping to lower and lower levels ever since Elvis Presley got up on stage and violently gyrated his hips on national television. There used to be a time when you went to the cinema and were able to order a beer, smoke a cigarette,…
A group of researchers from the University of North Texas Health Science Center took a close look at texting while driving by analyzing traffic data from the Fatality Accident Reporting System and texting data from the FCC and CTIA. After crunching the numbers, the team attributed 16,141 deaths from texting while driving during the six…
We all know that driving and texting while driving can be dangerous and the second annual U.S. distracted driver summit offered a range of ideas on how to deal with this problem. Some of these suggestions seem like good ideas and others seemed a bit odd. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood suggested that cell phones come…