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T-Mobile said it blocked a texting service because it didn’t comply with regulations not because the content was associated with marijuana. The text messaging company EZ Texting is suing T-Mobile because the fourth-largest U.S. carrier cut off its access to shortcodes. EZ Texting implied that this was because it dealt with a company which supplied…
Yesterday I wrote about the sad story of a 17 year old girl in Pennsylvania who had her phone confiscated by a teacher, then had her device searched by the school’s principal, who finally took the irrational measure of calling law enforcement after finding naked pictures of her in her photo gallery. She ended up…
T-Mobile is being sued by EZ Texting which claims the fourth-largest U.S. carrier was unfairly blocking its SMS delivery service due to connections with medical marijuana groups. The company, which offers groups and organizations way to have mass SMS campaigns, said T-Mobile was concerned about its connections to a legal (in the state it was…
If you’re on U.S. Cellular and you’re looking for quick-messaging device, the just-announced Motorola Grasp may be right up your alley. It’s not as cool as some of Motorola’s high-end devices but the Motorola Grasp does have a full physical QWERTY keyboard for banging out those messages. I’d guess that it’s running a custom Linux-based…
One of the reasons the Apple iPod touch is popular with teens is because there are free apps which enables users to send free text messages to friends. Arguably one of the best SMS apps is textPlus and a new version has hit the App Store and it adds cool new features like picture sharing…
Looks like my friends at SHAPE Services have been hard at work on their IM+ for BlackBerry application. Last I heard from them, they had updated the app with some new user interface and group chat features. The app is a powerful one, and connects you to all of your favorite instant messaging, chat and…
I guess you can no longer say that Twitter is worthless, as the micro-blogging service was ingeniously used by a kidnapped Japanese journalist to signal for help. The best part of the story is that the kidnapped person tricked his captors into using Twitter in order to send out cries for help. According to an…
If you though text messaging was just for Justin Bieber-loving tweens, you’re wrong, as a new survey from Pew Internet says that 72% of adults also routinely send text messages. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, as we know text messaging has been increasing at stunning rate, but the Pew survey does have a…
Like fellow portal Yahoo, AOL is trying to adapt to a new reality where mobile is only going to become increasingly important. The company has just purchased the mobile app firm Rally Up to help usher in its new mobile strategy. Rally Up specializes in mobile apps and it’s probably best known for its Rally…
Facebook continues to try and capitalize on its popularity in the mobile space and the team plans to take a crack as mobile password management. Facebook has a “Platmobile” team (platform plus mobile) that is looking at instantly personalizing your device so you won’t have to remember every single password. There are obviously privacy implications,…