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Arizona Credit Union West customers, be warned: Ignore those bizarre text messages saying your account has unusual activity or has been suspended -- it's a phishing scam by text. Attorney General Terry Goddard alerted consumers Tuesday not to fall for a scam that targets Verizon, Sprint and...

Pay 555-555-1234 $13.70 for dinner. It seems simple; sending money to a friend or business with your phone, but after years of trying, the practice never really caught on in the U.S. Past attempts at sending money with a cell phone have been simple enough to use, but the fees involved often...

When the news broke just over 24 hours ago that a major earthquake had hit in Haiti killing thousands, downing buildings and crippling an already fragile infrastructure, news networks immediately began questioning how aid would arrive and from where. While nations got busy responding with...

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to take a hard line with cell phone executives at a hearing about the escalating cost of sending text messages.The hearing, at 2:30 p.m. June 19, was brought on in part by the concerned voice of Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl. A story from News Junkie indicates...

The only people who don't know about text messages these days are 90-year-olds and infants. Even if you don't use the feature, it is available on nearly every phone in use. Recently, text messaging overtook voice use on cell phones for the first time, indicating that texting is here to stay. Even...

Normally contacting the person who stole your car is a sure fire way to end up on the losing side of a bad situation, but one Columbus Ohio man was able to recover his stolen car with the help of a text message. It sounds more like a plot wrinkle from Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels than a news...