A 17-year-old boy, caught sending text messages in class, was recently sent to the vice principal’s office at Millwood High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The vice principal, Steve Gallagher, told the boy he needed to focus on the teacher, not his cellphone.
The way we type is subject to the changing winds of technology, as well as safety concerns over issues like texting while driving.
One of the big debates is about keyboard layouts, which includes the traditional Qwerty design and the user-friendly but obscure Dvorak.
As school starts again, there’s so much more for a parent to nag about. Homework. Bedtime. Lost hours on Facebook and Xbox.
About 80 percent of U.S. adults support laws banning text messaging while driving, according to a new survey from Nationwide Insurance.
As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can’t write–and technology is to blame.
For the growing number of tech companies developing safety measures for texting while driving, the reasons are often personal.
Matt Howard, a co-founder of Reston, Va.-based Zoomsafer, began work on the service after nearly hitting a neighbor’s son while texting in his car.
Notice to my friends: I love you all dearly.
But I don’t give a hoot that you are “having a busy Monday,” your child “took 30 minutes to brush his teeth,” your dog “just ate an ant trap” or you want to “save the piglets.”
New York police issued more than 7,400 tickets last week in a 24-hour crackdown on cellphone-using drivers.
The police’s goal was to cut down on cellphone use while behind the wheel in accordance with New York law, and in light of newly released research showing that texting while driving is particularly risky.
Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPhone called Google Voice. The uproar set off a chain of events—Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt resigning from Apple’s board, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigating wireless open access and handset exclusivity—that may finally end the 135-year-old Alexander Graham Bell era. It’s about time.
They do it late at night when their parents are asleep.
Sometime in the weeks between the shuttering of the Rocky Mountain News and Seattle Post Intelligencer newsrooms, it dawned on me that not having a Facebook account (or texting capabilities for that matter) might actually make me less credible as a journalism professor.
The relationship did not end because of Elizabeth Fishkin’s boyfriend’s text aversion.
Consumers have begun reducing their cellphone use to save money in the face of the sharp economic downturn, according to a new survey.
Conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for the New Millennium Research Council, the survey of 2,005 Americans found that 39 percent of those with contract-based cellphones are likely to cut back their service to save money if the economy gets worse over the next six months.
Hate on the kiddies and their SMS speak all you want, but text messaging is taking off among the masses. AT&T has released data from two studies it recently commissioned, showing that both families and romantic partners are using SMS more and more to communicate.
If you thought gas prices were rising too quickly, check out what’s been happening to text messaging. Since 2005, rates to send and receive text messages on all four major carrier networks have doubled from 10 cents to 20 cents per message. This percentage of increase is on par with similar price hikes at the gas pump as crude oil prices skyrocket. In 2005, Americans paid on average about $2.27 per gallon for gas compared with more than $4 a gallon today.
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