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Mobile Companies Open the Floodgates to Allow Text Message-Based Donations

Obopay and Benevity partner up to allow any registered charity to receive text message-based donations.READ»

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An App That Makes Android Smarter Than Ever

Imagine turning off your ringer by just setting your phone on the table face down, or automatically texting your spouse when you reach the nearest train station without taking the phone out of your pocket. Tasker can do all this and more.READ»

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SMS Education: Poll Everywhere Is Making the Mobile Pop Quiz More Affordable

Mobile Messenger and Poll Everywhere are rolling out a new initiative to reach students where they spend a large chunk of their time anyway--on cell phones.READ»

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Hey Millenniums! Time to Wake Up and Go to Work!

I just saw an advertisement for a seminar about how to manage Millennials in the workplace and I realized I've finally grown tired of hearing how the Millennials (aka "Generation Y")--those 75 million persons born between 1977 and 1998--are going to transform the workplace!READ»

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Revamped OnStar Adds Facebook, Text-to-Speech, and an App Store

We heard this rumor last week, and now it's official: GM is issuing a major update to its OnStar system, adding media controls, text-to-speech text messaging, Facebook, and even an app store. READ»

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Only 13% of Adults Pay for Apps

A new study offers insight into how unpopular the app market is for adult cell phone owners.READ»

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Who's That Texting Your Kids in Class 66% of the Time? Parents

A new survey by textPlus reveals that texting in the classroom is more rampant than ever--for both students and parents.READ»

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Google's Android App Inventor: DIY Apps for Everyone, From Everyone

Google's new App Inventor for Android brings app creation to the masses. It might not result in any truly amazing apps, but it could definitely result in some new development addicts.READ»

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How mGive Is Making Donations Mobile

Founder, Mobile Accord Denver Eberhard, 32, started Mobile Accord to help not-for-profits organize their mobile efforts. Its mGive platform -- which launched with 10 seconds of TV time during the 2008 Super Bowl -- has helped ...READ»

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Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Police Chief's Right to Search Employee's Text Messages

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a California police chief's actions in searching and reading private (in this case, sexually explicit) texts from an employee is justified and reasonable.READ»

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Study: Teens Who Are Social Online Are Social in Life, But Don't Like Television, Foursquare

A new study by myYearbook.com reveals that teen influencers, defined as the most active users on their site, consume mass quantities of social media while they eschew traditional entertainment like TV.READ»

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Google Maps 4.2 for Android Introduces Bike Directions and Location Sharing

Google updated Maps for Android yesterday with some welcome new features that continue the app's reign as the best maps app on any smartphone, period.READ»

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Dumbphone Statistics: Oh Right, Not Everyone Has a Smartphone

It's easy to forget that smartphones don't dominate the mobile phone market. Here are the stats for the first quarter of 2010: The top cellphone sellers might surprise you. RIM (BlackBerry)? Nope. Apple? Forget about it. Keep guessing.READ»

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Mobile Tech’s Influence in a Network Society

Do you remember life before Facebook or Twitter or your Blackberry? In the past few years, we have moved beyond chat rooms and community forums to life-casting platforms that can be updated via your mobile phone. You can upload your son’s 1st soccer goal on YouTube, before the game is over. As we move forward...READ»

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Tween Girls Blaze Through 100 Texts a Day: Pew Internet Report

Texting is the preferred method of communication between American teenagers, the latest Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project report has found--and they're sending and receiving thousands a month. Eight hundred ...READ»

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Why Your Start-Up Needs Texting

As new technology gains widespread publicity among the general public, the business applications it has grows immensely. A clear cut example of this is the recent popularity of text messaging. A recent survey showed that teenagers in America were sending and receiving as much as an average of 80 text messages a day. Hence, it is no surprise that businesses from restaurants to retail establishments are trying to find ways to integrate this technology into their business practices and marketing plans.READ»

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ER Wait Times: To Text or Not to Text?

That is the question and the answer is very simple. If your hospital is focusing on ER admissions and generating ER wait times under the staggering national average of 4 hours, then yes, by all means, let people know about it. ...READ»

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Marketing Emergency Medical Services

ER Texting, Inc., a Miami-based healthcare technology company today announced the launch of its ER Texting services for hospitals nationwide. Using ER Texting, patients can send a text message to a dedicated number (4ER411) and ...READ»

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Sexting, Cyberbullying "Over The Line," Say Users of MTV's Online Morality Meter

"Someone made an AIM account and posed as me. They were telling everyone I was a lesbian!" "Me and my friends Photoshopped our other friend to make it seem like he had man-boobs." "My boyfriend texts other girls all the time and ...READ»

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Clever Video Installation Encourages Charitable Giving

Using a video projection and text-message billing, a new project opens up hearts and wallets to problem of homelessness.READ»

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Is Your Smartphone Possessed?

How today's sophisticated phones can be easily hacked to send your documents, calls, and text messages to prying hackers -- and how to keep your device safe.READ»

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Gettin' QWERTY With It: Six Tips From the World's Fastest Texters

We caught up with six champion texters at yesterday's LG Mobile Worldcup, including Guinness record-breaker Predo Matis, 27, who typed a 264-character message in 1 minute, 59 seconds. Here, they share their SMS secrets.READ»

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How Effective is it to Text for Local ER Wait Times?

The buzz on using SMS text messages to receive local ER wait times has hit many states around the US. Billboards all over south Florida show just how big the market has grown for hospitals in advertising their ER wait times. ...READ»

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Social Media Responds to Chile's Earthquake: We Can Help

As Chilean and international rescue forces work through the rubble cause by the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit near Concepcion, Chile's second-largest city, users of social media the world over have undertaken their own ...READ»