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AT&T says iPhone to get picture messaging Sept. 25

AT&T says the latest iPhone models will finally get the ability to send picture and video messages to other phones on Sept. 25.

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Woman accused of threatening teen daughter's ex

A woman is accused of badgering her daughter's teenage ex-boyfriend with hundreds of e-mails and text messages and threatening to post nude images of him on the Internet unless he started seeing the girl again, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Driven to distraction: Put down the phone and pay attention!

Pardon the pun, but I think I just ran into the poster child for Distracted Driving Week, which, it so happens, runs June 9–13.

Poll: IMs Help Teens Avoid Embarrassment

Sure, instant messaging is fast and efficient. For many teenagers, it's also a great way to avoid those OMG moments — that's "omigod" — of mortifying face-to-face confrontations.

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Coping without Twitter
Source: Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

WASHINGTON - TWITTER went down on Thursday prompting devotees of the micro-blogging service to share how they coped without it.

Twitter to get 100 million dollars in financing
Source: The Earth Times Online

San Francisco - Internet messaging sensation Twitter is to close a new funding round of 100 million dollars from investors who value the company as high as 1 billion dollars, the New York Times reported Thursday.

Think Twice About Texting While You Drive | Truck Driving Jobs
Source: truckdrivingjobsblog.com

A Study about truck drivers and text messaging. Truckers are 23 times more likely to crash while text messaging. A college student may only be 8 times more likely.

Communication Etiquette for Professionals

There have been many articles in various publications that have covered etiquette, but I have yet to see one that went over the basic rules and expectations where it concern professional communication.

To "Twitter" or Not to "Twitter!"

Forsyth, GA - The Twitter Revolution, A Frivolous Waste of Time or Not? Yankee ingenuity does it again. Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs figured out how to get hold of hundreds of thousands of eyeballs, and now the venture capitalists say the concept is worth $250 million.

Stalking by Texting: Are you guilty?

If you've ever sent a series of unanswered text messages to one person in a 24-hour or less window of time, you may be guilty of overtexting.

This Kid's A Text Maniac - New York Post
Source: New York Post

Greg Hardesty didn't LOL when he got his teen daughter's cellphone statement. All he could think was "OMG!" The California man's 13-year-old daughter, Reina, racked up an astonishing 14,528 text messages in one month. The online AT&T statement ran 440 pages.

Koobface computer virus attacks Facebook users
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Facebook's millions of users are in the crosshairs of a computer virus dubbed Koobface that is being spread through the social networking site's messaging system.

Sprint Text Failure

So, for awhile this evening, I couldn't send text messages. I have Sprint, which I am generally happy enough with, but tonight, not so much. I thought it might just be me, but then I found out my little brother's phone was infected as well. Curses!

Taking SpinVox out for a Spin

I've been testing a new service called SpinVox that promises to convert voicemail messages on my telephone into text.

Cloud Computing Demonstration: Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Video)
Source: RedHat.com

Excellent demonstration of outsourcing a computing jon to the cloud. He acheived a 600% speed improvement with the cloud. More Articles and Seeds From blinkin

Running L8 But CU Soon. Luv, Mom
Source: The Washington Post

"Parents like the immediacy of it and that it is not intrusive. . . . it's become an important way of communicating with their kids," said Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T Mobility, the nation's largest wireless carrier.

Padded lampposts for distracted texters
Source: Engadget

According to a recent report, human beings are becoming so incredibly stupid that they require cushioned lamppost bases so that when they run into them they don't mess up their idiotic faces.

Tenth Royalty Free music Podcast.
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A news article for Whitebeetle.com including links to their latest royalty free music podcasts

Why Buy On Hold Music?
Source:

A concise and thoughtful look at why we should use on hold music and what we should look for when buying it.

Smart Mobile Trick by Dialing "DIR-ECT-IONS" (347-328-4667)
Source: Chicago Tribune

Writer Eric Benderoff of Chicago Tribune writes, "Here's a smart trick any mobile phone can do: Provide an address, directions or a number for that French restaurant you've been meaning to try....[Y]ou can call a super-fast new service called Dial Directions (347-328-4667, the ca …

The #1 Problem in Web Design
Source: bokardo.com

There are two messages involved in every web design project. One is the desired message, the message that the site owners want to deliver to their audience.

Public Instant Messengers Are Not Safe for Business.

Efficient communication is one of the key components of the overall success of any company, be it a small family shop or a humongous multinational with thousands of employees.

The U.S. Counter-propaganda Failure in Iraq
Source: netWMD

...In Iraq, while the coalition fumbles its information operations, the insurgents and militia groups are adept at releasing timely messages to undermine support for the Iraqi government and bolster their own perceived potency.

Asia Pacific Corporate Email Market Revenues Projected to Grow From $678 Million in 2007 to Over $856 Million by 2011
Source: Market Wire

The latest study by The Radicati Group, Inc., "Corporate Email Market in Asia Pacific, 2007-2011," provides market size, four-year forecasts, technology trends, and competitive information for the Asia Pacific corporate email market.

HOW TO: build IM onto your website | APC Magazine
Source: apcmag.com

Instant messaging is cool - but the 'authorise buddy' process means it's not quite as convenient as making a phone call or sending an email. Here's how to let anyone see and chat with you via your web page.

Gaim-Encryption
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Gaim-Encryption uses NSS to provide transparent RSA encryption as a Gaim plugin.

Click and bangs - the lost art of detecting atomic tests
Source: User Submission

We're still as worried as we ever were about atomic testing and proliferation: the test in north Korea late last year proved this.

Automatically add contacts to KAddressBook with KBBDB
Source: linux.com

Managing your address book and appending new addresses can get tiresome. If your email client is KMail, KBBDB can help with part of the job. This Perl-based filter sits idle waiting for messages to show up, then extracts any new sender's email address into KAddressBook.

Teens: E-mail is for old people
Source: Ars Technica

Is e-mail only for the old? That's the contention of a string of articles published in the last four months, the most recent appearing today in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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