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LG Electronics has enlisted Glee star Jane Lynch to try and stop all those crazy teens from texting while driving. Jane Lynch is starring in a promotional video to raise awareness about the dangers of texting while driving and it can be viewed on the LG Text Ed website. It’s cute enough and does have…
Tweeting while driving is the rumored cause of a fatal accident earlier this week that claimed the life of celebrity surgeon, Dr. Frank Ryan. According to unconfirmed reports, the famed plastic surgeon was reportedly delivering his final tweet when he lost control of his car and went over a cliff. Ryan was joined in the…
You got to love competition. One day after Yahoo revamped its iPad web Mail app, Google has introduced a new version of its Gmail web app for the Apple iPad and it features a redesigned user interface. The previous version had multiple toolbars which Google thought could confuse Apple iPad users, so the new UI…
Some eye candy and interesting stats on texting have been fused together by Mashable into an infographic that details the explosion of SMS over the past 18 years. All texters would agree that SMS is on record pace to surpass email as a primary communication tool. Not surprisingly, the biggest adopter of texting is not…
If you’re sick of using the Apple iPad default mail client, you’ll be happy to know that Yahoo has revamped its web version to play well with the “magical” tablet. According to Yahoo, the new version for the Apple iPad rocks because: Faster and more reliable: If you’re offline, Yahoo! Mail uses local caching capabilities…
Despite all the super cool video-streaming capabilities of things like Hulu Plus, a new survey from Nielsen indicates that e-mail is the most common mobile Internet activity. As you can see from the chart above, mobile e-mail is the most common activity, followed by portals, social networks and search. I expect a few of these…
The United States Supreme Court ruled that public employers like police departments have the right to search text messages on company-issued devices as long as there’s a legitimate work purpose for doing so. The issue came to the Supreme Court after a California police officer sued because he thought his Fourth Amendment rights were violated…
Need help monitoring your data usage? Ever wish there was some sort of alert system provided by your carrier setup to keep you informed? TELUS has come out with a new SMS notification system called TELUS Data Notifications… and yes, it’s free. How it works is simple. TELUS sends subscribers SMS text messages when they…
The Canadian telecommunications industry, together with the folks at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and AMBER Alert agencies from coast to coast, to coast… have announced AMBER Alerts for customers on most Canadian wireless service providers. So what are AMBER alerts, anyway? AMBER alerts are text messages sent out…
It’s good to see innovative technology be rewarded and I was tickled pink to hear that Swype said it’s technology will be on more than 10 million handsets by the end of the year, according to BusinessWeek. If you’re unfamiliar with the input technology, it was created by the guy who invented T9 and it…