Posts Tagged: ‘text messaging’

If you are, you aren’t alone. Lance Whitney at CNET wrote about the Mobile Messaging Study commissioned by Neverfail and conducted by Osterman Research. Judging from the press release, I believe the point of the study was to show how many people use business e-mail and how important it is to protect your e-mail infrastructure.

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The recent earthquake in Haiti killed or injured thousands of people. As the survivors in Haiti wait for aid to arrive, many people have asked what they can do to help. There are several ways the average person can make a difference. Perhaps the easiest is to send a text message.

Planet Green writer Rachel Cernansky gave tips on how to help Haitians during this emergency situation. Sending a text message reading “Haiti” to 90999 is one way to do it. If you send that message, you’ll donate $10 to the disaster relief effort led by the Red Cross. The $10 will show up on your next phone bill.

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Yet again, Facebook appears to be at the heart of a scandal. Except, this time the scandal isn’t so — well, scandalous. My friend Sarah shared this story with me this morning. It appears that Principal Thomas Murray at Danvers High School in Massachusetts objects to students saying “meep” in school. According to the Associated Press, students were using Facebook to coordinate a major disruption.

So the school sent out an automated call that told parents about the ban on meeping. Theoretically, that should be it. But GeekDad’s Matt Blum thinks that with other technological means, the kids will still find a way to meep. They’ll text message one another and coordinate that way.

Sarah Netter at ABC also wrote about the meeping. The word can mean whatever the speaker wants, according to her research at the Urban Dictionary. She also quoted Syracuse University professor Bob Thompson, who said he’d heard students meeping a year ago as they watched a TV show in class.

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About a month ago, I posted a link to an interactive map from The New York Times that illustrated exactly where cars and trucks are built in the United States. I thought it was an interesting map because it also let you know if the vehicle was built in a union or non-union plant and where the engine and transmission originated, too. Well, the folks at The New York Times have done it again. This time it’s a distracted driving game.

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By now you may have heard about the trolley driver in Boston that rear ended another trolley. The reason? He was texting on his cell phone. This happened last Friday evening as the Green Line trains were traveling between the Park Street and Government Center stations in downtown Boston.

Twenty people were injured, though none of the injuries were life threatening. And apparently the driver,24-year-old Aiden Quinn, suffered some of the worst injuries. Don’t confuse him with actor Aidan Quinn (although it has been a while since we’ve seen him).

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