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• Did You Know You Can Send a Text Message from AIM?

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:52 am

  Tags: Aim, Aim Client, Aim Software, Aimclient, Aimsoftware, Sms, Text Message, Text Messaging, Textmessage, Textmessaging

  Filed under: AIM 6, AIM Beta, AIM Buddy BlogIn my last blog entry I promised to detail the new features in our latest Beta client. Well, I'm back to continue my promise. Today I'll be talking about Text Messaging from AIM.There are multiple ways not only to send a text message from AIM, but also to store your buddy's mobile number for future use.

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• Teenager hit by train whilst texting, somehow survives

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:06 am

  Tags: Accident, Ohio, Sms, Text, Text Message, Text Messaging, Texting, Textmessage, Textmessaging, Train, Wreck

  Granted, this isn't the first run-in we've seen between trains and an SMS-minded individual, but the former story certainly didn't involve a train coming into contact with a human. This time, however, an 18-year old Ohio resident managed to get carted away from a devastating collision after being struck by an oncoming locomotive. The kid

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• Text messaging homework angers parents

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Acronyms, Cell Phone, Cellphone, Grand Prairie Texas, Grandprairietexas, Homework, Jackson Middle School, Jacksonmiddleschool, Text, Text Language, Text Message, Text Messaging Homework, Texting, Textlanguage, Textmessage, Textmessaginghomework

  Filed under: Teachers, Middle school, Pre-teen, Teenager, Internet, Mobile phones, Monitoring your kidsI am pretty clueless when it comes to text messaging. I know how to do it, I just don't know about all those strange abbreviations and acronyms that kids employ to get their message across. If I cared enough about it, I could learn about them

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• Is there a double standard for sex offenders?

  Published: September 26, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Double Standard, Doublestandard, Idhao Statesman, Idhaostatesman, Mother, Pedophile, Sex Offenders, Sexoffenders, Summer Of 42, Summerof42, Teenagers, Teens, Text Message, Textmessage

  Filed under: Health and Safety, High school, Moms, TeenagerYesterday, I read this article in my local paper about Sheryl A. Nawahine, a 35-year-old woman who was arrested after exchanging sexually explicit text messages with a teenage boy. The boy is a friend of her children and plays football on her son's team. An example of one of the more

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• cre8txt keyboard translates SMS slang to English

  Published: November 12, 2007, 3:23 pm

  Tags: Cre8txt, Crea8txt, Keyboard, Predictive Text, Predictivetext, Sms, Text, Text Message, Text Messaging, Texting, Textmessage, Textmessaging, Weird

  Filed under: PeripheralsGranted, it seems that we'll all be using SMS slang to condense our resumés in the not-too-distant future, but on the off chance that unadulterated English is still required in some facet of your life, the cre8txt keyboard will make things an awful lot easier. This gem plugs into one's PC via USB and actually

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• Texting generation carrying spelling habits to birth certificates?

  Published: March 7, 2008, 10:25 am

  Tags: Baby, Child, Children, Culture, Names, Naming, Sms, Social, Text Message, Text Messages, Texting, Textmessage, Textmessages

  Filed under: Cellphones It's bad enough when exams have to cater to horrific spellers due to their SMS-based vocabulary, but we're doing everything we can to make ourselves believe this latest report simply isn't true. Reportedly, a social analyst in Australia somehow believes that the wide range in spellings in a few popular names is due in

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• Get Address Book Bluetooth dialing back with Nova Media Phone plugins

  Published: June 18, 2008, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Address Book, Addressbook, Bluetooth, Sms, Text Message, Textmessage

  Filed under: Productivity, Bluetooth, LeopardOne of the the stranger changes in Leopard was the loss of the ability to dial (and send text messages) from the Address Book to a Bluetooth paired cell phone. Fortunately, however, Nova Media has released its Phone plugins to return this functionality to the Leopard Address Book and other applications

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• Citi allows text-happy Filipinos to charge by phone

  Published: July 7, 2008, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Credit Card Miscellany, New Interesting Products, Creditcards, Philippines, Textmessage

  Filipinos love their text messages, which is exactly why credit card issuer Citi decided the Philippines was the ideal place to introduce the bank's new mobile phone banking. As of last Friday, Filipino cardholders can make credit card charges via text message or phone call.   "Citibank, the world's largest credit card

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• 3,000 LEDs used to build glitzy SMS-controlled UFO

  Published: July 13, 2008, 10:08 pm

  Tags: Alien, Art, Design, Diy, Galaxy, Led, Light, Lighting, Mod, Project, Sms, Text Message, Text Messaging, Texting, Textmessage, Textmessaging, Ufo, Video

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Hey France, we've got one more for your sophisticated UFO archive. Dreamed up by artist Peter Coffin and crafted in conjunction with London-based Cinimod Studio, this 7-meter structure was built from aluminum and covered with 3,000 shockingly bright programmable LEDs. Furthermore, there's an on board 6kW generator to

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• Pope Benedict XVI texting out messages of encouragement

  Published: July 16, 2008, 8:58 am

  Tags: Australia, Catholic, Church, Iphone, Pope, Pope Benedict Xvi, Popebenedictxvi, Prayer Wall, Prayerwall, Religion, Sms, Telstra, Text, Text Message, Text Messaging, Texting, Textmessage, Textmessaging

  Filed under: Cellphones Don't act like you didn't know that Pope Benedict XVI was down with modern technology. As part of World Youth Day, the man himself will begin sending out texts of encouragement to pilgrims who have signed up through Telstra to receive them. A total of four gigantic "prayer walls" have been erected at the Sydney Opera

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