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A third of teens say they’ve texted while driving

A third of teens ages 16 and 17 say they have texted while driving and 48 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 say they have been in a car when the driver was texting, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Text of Obama's news conference with Hatoyama

Text of President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's remarks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo, as transcribed by the White House.

Text of Obama's remarks at the Fort Hood ceremony

Text of President Barack Obama's remarks Tuesday during a memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas, as transcribed by the White House:

Obama statement on health care legislation

Text of President Barack Obama's remarks Saturday at the White House on health care legislation:

Misdialed number leads to angry texts, shooting

Georgia police said a misdialed number led two strangers to trade hostile calls and text messages before arranging a meeting where one shot the other. Savannah-Chatham police spokeswoman Veda Lamar Nichols told the Savannah Morning News in a Wednesday story that man, 22, faces an aggravated assault charge. The 22-year-old suspect was jailed after a 24-year-old man was shot in a CVS parking lot around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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Obama's remarks on winning Nobel Peace Prize

Text of President Barack Obama's remarks at the White House Friday on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, as provided by the White House:

Mobile banking on the rise during recession

Banking by cell phone is growing in popularity, and the recession may be the reason behind it, experts say, as people "micromanage" their money more than ever before.

Text of Obama, Sarkozy, Brown statements on Iran

Statements by President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Pittsburgh on Friday about an Iranian nuclear facility, as provided by the White House:

Text of Rep. Joe Wilson resolution

The text of the resolution disapproving of the outburst by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., during President Barack Obama's speech:

President Barack Obama's remarks on Sept 11

President Barack Obama's Sept. 11 address Friday at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Va.:

Text of Kennedy's letter to Obama

Text of a letter Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., wrote before his death to send President Barack Obama, as provided by the White House.

Prepared text of Obama's speech to school students

The prepared text of President Barack Obama's back-to-school address scheduled for Tuesday, as released in advance by the White House:

Prepared text of Obama's speech to school students

The prepared text of President Barack Obama's back-to-school address scheduled for Tuesdays, as released in advance by the White House:

Cops, lawmakers send message: Dnt txt & drive

Driving while text messaging is p

Text of Obama's eulogy at Kennedy's funeral Mass

Text of President Barack Obama's eulogy at Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral Mass on Saturday in Boston, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House:

Text of family statement on Kennedy's death

Statement from the Kennedy family on the death Tuesday of Sen. Edward Kennedy:

Text of Obama's remarks on Kennedy's death

Text of President Barack Obama's remarks Wednesday in Chilmark, Mass., after the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, as transcribed by the White House:

Text of Sen. Ensign's interview with the AP

Text of The Associated Press interview with U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on Wednesday in Fernley, Nev.:

Text of Obama Shriver statement

Text of President Barack Obama's statement on the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver:

Text of Obama's remarks on arrest of black scholar

Text of President Barack Obama's remarks at a White House briefing Friday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.

Text of Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor

Text of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, as delivered.

Text of Obama's speech in Ghana

Text of President Barack Obama's speech Saturday in Accra, Ghana, as provided by the White House:

Text of Obama's news conference on Friday

Text of President Barack Obama's news conference on Friday in L'Aquila, Italy, as provided by the White House:

Text of Obama's AP interview

AP transcript of an interview with President Barack Obama on Thursday.

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Generation TEXT! (u wont brb if u r dead) w/poll

There are two signs that I'm officially old. The first is that I can peruse through the entire Billboard Top 100 and not recognize a single song – or artist for that matter.

97% of Americans Agree on WHAT!?
Source: Gizmodo

I didn't think 97 percent of Americans were in agreement about anything, but apparently they are about...

Thirsty Plants Text For Help
Source: Science Daily

Interactive telecommunications researchers designed a soil-moisture sensor device that can allow a house plant to communicate with its owner. The device can send short messages to a mobile phone or, by using a service called Twitter, it can send short messages to the Internet.

Generation Y and texting
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Purists may despair that technology is killing the English language but the digital age spells a new era of communication, Australian academics and researchers say.

Ex-Teacher accused of "sexting" student goes on trial
Source: hosted.ap.org

A former Sarasota teacher accused of trading sexual text messages with a student is slated to go to trial.

Too Much NewsVine? Some say its a Mental Illness
Source: FOXNews.com

Psychiatrists in Washington state create first "Inpatient" internet, gamer & text-er addiction clinic. & they'll fix you for the low low price of $14,000 for a 45 day "treatment" cycle.

New Sex And Relationships Education Service To Offer Online, Text And Face To Face Support For Young People In London
Source: Medical News Today

Terrence Higgins Trust has been awarded £432,000 by the Big Lottery Fund's Young People's Fund 2 programme to offer sexual health counselling, mentoring support and volunteering opportunities for 10 - 18 year olds in London.

Probe into sending of child 'sex act' images
Source: Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

TELECOMMUNICATIONS experts are now trying to determine if camera phone images relating to an alleged sex act involving infants were ever transmitted.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web tool oversees Afghan election
Source: BBC News

Text from the BBC article by Jonathan Fildes, BBC's technology journalist. Any attempt to rig or interfere with Afghanistan's election could be caught out by a system that allows anyone to record incidents via text message.

Learning to Text: Find Out What All the Abbreviations Mean
Source: Wall Street Journal

Kate Washburn didn't know what to make of the email a friend sent to her office with the abbreviation "NSFW" written at the bottom.

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.

WARNING iPhone users- after 7/28 if you get a text containing only a single square character, turn the device off. Quickly
Source: Forbes

"This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone," Miller told Forbes. "Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone...."

Text inadvertently sent to NJ cop leads to arrests
Source:

A man who allegedly wanted to buy some marijuana was arrested after he mistakenly sent a text message to a southern New Jersey police officer.

Never wait forever in an ER again!
Source: 10connects.com

Have you ever waited hours to get seen in an emergency room? A group of Tampa Bay hospitals wants to fix that by making their ER wait times available online and by text message.

Texts, threats led to mistaken identity killing
Source: CNN

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Police think it started with a dispute over an ex-girlfriend. Threats were made on social networking sites and via text messages.

Boy Suspended For Getting Explicit Text
Source: wftv.com

-- A 14-year-old Daytona Beach boy is in serious trouble for sexting. That's when kids send sexual or nude text messages to one another.

Girl Accused Of Videotaping Friend's Sex Act
Source: kptv.com

A 17-year-old girl has been charged with taking cell phone video of her 16-year-old friend in the middle of a sexual act and then sending it to other people, authorities said.

Teen sends 41,600 texts in a month - that's almost 1 a minute
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Teen sends 41,600 texts in a month - that's almost 1 a minute... See more irresistible headlines

AT&T Spams Millions of Users With American Idol Text Messages... And Then Charges Them When They Text Back To Opt Out.
Source: Consumerist

AT&T spammed a "'significant number' of its 75 million customers" yesterday with text messages advertising the premiere of American Idol.

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.

Tips for New Bloggers: Add Blogger search box
Source: tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com

The Google Navigation bar at the top of your Blogger blogs has an embedded search box. However, you may want to include a similar box in the main body of your blog (like what I have done), or the sidebar.

What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting
Source: The New York Times

TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers' costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.

Ludacris, Soulja Boy Do Free Show for SEC Championship Afterparty' in ATL
Source: eurweb.com

Ludacris and Soulja Boy Tell'em will perform in Atlanta Saturday (Dec. 6) at the "Unofficial' SEC Championship Afterparty" following the 2008 SEC Football Championship. See more irresistible headlines

Best Man Failure

[Priest] Cloe, will you have Keith to be your wedded husband, to live together in the covenant of marriage, will you love him and comfort him, honor and keep him, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others and be faithful to him as long as you both shall live? [ Cloe ]

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