Texting

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A new study has found an alarming number of young drivers still text while driving: 63% of drivers under the age of 30 reported using a handheld phone while driving in the past 30 days, and 30% of them texted while driving during the same period.

Technology is giving scam artists new ways to target consumers. This time, it's fake rebate cards offered through text messages. A Texas resident received a text message saying "You have been chosen to receive a $100 cash rebate card" and given a phone number to call.

Facebook unveiled on Monday a messaging service designed to incorporate email, SMS, chat and messages under one system, a move that could potentially erode the markets of a host of other high-profile email providers from Google's Gmail to Yahoo's Yahoo mail. But Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg downplayed the potential affect on email providers, saying in a Webcast: "This is not an email killer. This is a messaging system that includes email."

Texting and driving may not be illegal in all 50 states yet, but it is a dangerous activity -- especially on touchscreen phones that require more attention to hit the correct key. While you can solve the problem with self control, it doesn't always work. A new app called SafeCell makes it easier to...

Sixteen thousand people died between 2001 and 2007 due to distracted driving involving the use of handsets for voice or text communications, according to a research study in the American Journal of Public Health. The study by Fernando Wilson and Jim Stimpson of the University of North Texas...

Drivers distracted by talking or texting on cell phones killed an estimated 16,000 people from 2001 to 2007, according to a report released yesterday in the American Journal of Public Health. "Our results suggested that recent and rapid increases in texting volumes have resulted in thousands of...

One day after a digital startup vowed to drop T-Mobile over a forthcoming fee hike, another texting company has sued T-Mobile for blocking its service. The reason? Apparently T-Mobile "did not approve" of a company called EZ Texting, which does business with a website that provides information on the location of legal medical marijuana dispensaries in California.

If U R txting N class, U R not paying attn. Period. Although most schools ban cell phone use in classrooms, new research administered by California app developer textPlus revealed that 42.5% of 600 teens surveyed admitted they do it "sometimes" or "constantly" anyway. Almost 80% report they have...

OnStar, a unit of General Motors that provides in-car safety and communications, unveiled new services that may allow drivers to verbally update their Facebook page and send text messages. The new services would read the driver's Facebook news feed out loud and let them update their status with...