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Ethiopia launched on Saturday a phone text messaging campaign to raise funds as part of a continental drive for fighting the deadly Ebola virus.

The campaign seeks to encourage ordinary Africans to be part of the fight against the virus by sending text messages with their cell phones with the slogan StopEbola 7979 written in them.

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Regular text message can help people on long-term prescriptions for chronic illness in remembering to take their medicines, study finds.

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A survey conducted by Spark Networks, the company that owns JDate and ChristianMingle, last year found that 50% of 20-somethings text a potential partner a few times a day before meeting them in person.

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Simple -- you install an app like Android Lost. With this and others like it, you can remotely control your Android either via a website or SMS. Here are several things you can do with the Android Lost tool:

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Since the Ebola outbreak began last April, the Trilogy Emergency Relief Application (TERA) system has sent out about 2 million text messages a month in Sierra Leone, reminding people to seek treatment early, avoid physical contact with others and not resist the efforts of community health care workers.

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One of the more long-standing, tricky findings of social science is that it is really, really hard to get people to stick to plans. Sometimes this means they keep on 20 pounds they had hoped to lose with a few months of exercise. Sometimes, as in the case of taking anti-malarial medication, the results can be a matter of life and death. A new study in PLOS ONE explores how text messaging can help short-circuit this aspect of human nature, and it garnered some positive results.

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Everyone struggles with techiquette on social media and email, but texting might be the area in which we lag most. Unfortunately, we can not hit hide or unsubscribe on a group text chain. Regardless, someone needs to lay down the law. Because those group messages are not stopping anytime soon.

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A computer-controlled text message service could direct Ebola cases to appropriate medical facilities and track the spread of the disease in the process–provided it can raise the necessary funding.

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A new service launched this week by Nati Roadway Services aims to allow hard of hearing people the possibility of calling for help via SMS.

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The technology is beautifully simple. Cars are equipped with cellular technology and an electronic immobiliser. When a text is sent to the car's unique number, the immobiliser kicks in to stop the car dead in its tracks. A second text message can make the car driveable again.

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When you’re in a new relationship, you waste endless words telling your partner how much you looove him or her. After you’re married, the conversations shift to the things that really matter. Things like dinner.

That is what one data scientist discovered about her own relationship, anyway. For a recent anniversary, Alice Zhao analyzed all the texts she and her husband had ever sent each other, from the first flirty days of dating to their current status as newlyweds. Here’s her interpretation of how her relationship changed, judging strictly from the ever-so-romantic world of text-message logs:

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It is hardly news that electronic communications—emails, text messages, instant messages and the like—have overtaken traditional writings as the prevalent means of conveying information. But while these messages move at the speed of light, courts have been somewhat slower in adapting the rules of evidence governing old-fashioned documents to these newer forms of communication. One issue that has given many courts pause is the applicability to text messages of the so-called best-evidence rule. But a review of the rule itself makes clear that it does not present any significant bar to the admission of text messages into evidence.

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