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Managing your time and using it wisely is a journey, and not something that can be easily mastered overnight. Implementing a plan will help, but it is not going to be a sure cure. Time management requires a significant amount of self-discipline.

Here are some tips to assist you with time management...

Time Management Tips

Businesses that are going green are becoming more and more commonplace. Regardless of your political beliefs or opinions regarding the global warming concept, few can argue that being environmentally aware will leave the world a better place. Whether a company is simply jumping on the green bandwagon, or are honestly sensitive about environmental issues is really irrelevant. Consumers like green businesses, and shaping your business to promote being eco-friendly makes sense from a public relations standpoint.

Going Green Saves Green

Cellular phones and other mobile devices often contain toxic materials that can pollute the environment. The chemicals contained in the cell phones and electronics are harmful to the health of both humans and animals. Cell phones and their accessories contain a large number of hazardous substances known as Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals. Some of the chemicals contained in the PBTs have been known to cause damage to nervous systems, reproductive systems, and developmental systems, as well as causing cancer.

When recycled properly, the materials can be put back into circulation, reducing the health risks to the community. The materials that are contained in old cell phones can often be recycled and reused to make a variety of other products. Additionally, in order to comply with environmental protection regulations, many countries have very specific requirements and methods for disposing of cell phones, batteries, and other toxic items. Rather than wrestling with disposal guidelines yourself, it is often much easier to just sell or donate old cell phones to a company qualified to recycle them.

Disposing of Old Cell Phones

An online survey of 1,300 teen drivers with cellphones, scheduled for release Monday, found that even though their parents may warn them against it, most of those interviewed said adult drivers send text messages all the time.

A sizable proportion of the teens in the study also admitted to engaging in the same dangerous practice. About the same number who said they saw their parents do it admitted to doing it themselves.

The new data — released as part of an effort by AT&T to combat distracted driving — conform with some of the work done by the Pew Research Center, which conducted surveys and focus groups two years ago with teenagers about smartphones.

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Wireless carriers and the federal government are launching a system to automatically warn people of dangerous weather and other emergencies via a special type of text messaging to cellphones.

The Wireless Emergency Alerts service, which begins this month, is free, and consumers will not have to sign up. Warnings will be location-based

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Technological advancements providing users with improved reception through integrated antenna systems, reduced size and weight of cell phones, along with numerous feature sets, and storage improvements have caused the bulk of cellular phone users and enthusiasts to upgrade to new and improved handsets. The low cost of cell phones and the added technological improvements mean that the majority of cellular phone users are on their 2nd or 3rd generation hand set.

Recycling Cell Phones

Not too long ago, a colleague asked me why we invest so heavily in consumer education. We have made a conscious decision to spend marketing dollars on consumer education for a very simple reason. Educated consumers are simply better customers.

Lets take a closer look at why educated consumers are better customers.

Educated Consumers

At the beginning of April, security researchers found that a number of shady Chinese Android stores were pushing apps that masked a piece of malware called TigerBot ANDROIDOS_TIGERBOT.EVL.

Also known as Spyera, the malicious element was analyzed by Trend Micro experts. They discovered that the malware was controlled by its masters via SMS or phone calls, being capable of performing a number of tasks, including call recording and GPS tracking.

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Under the bill, companies could send text advertisements only to cell customers who give express consent. Consumers would be able to revoke an advertisers texting privileges at any time.

Violations of the measure would be punishable under the state’s consumer fraud act, with fines of up to $10,000 for a first offense and up to $20,000 for repeat offenses, as well as injunctive relief, triple damages, and restitution. Additionally, violations can result in cease and desist orders issued by the Attorney General, the assessment of punitive damages and the awarding of treble damages and costs to the injured party.

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Almost half of all adults - or 47 percent - send sexy text messages to their partners. And one in nine Brits sexts their partner every day, a new survey has found.

But the poll of 2,000 adults conducted by mobile phone experts Recombu.com found that one in 10 have mistakenly texted an inappropriate message to a friend or family member.

An Assembly committee on Thursday approved a bill designed to ban unsolicited text message advertising in New Jersey, and its sponsor says he believes it has a good chance of becoming law.

The Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee on Thursday amended the measure to broaden it from a 2010 version, which banned messages that would cause a charge or usage deduction. That was unanimously passed by the Assembly but stalled in the Senate.

The new legislation would ban messages that may cause a charge or deduction, a change its sponsor believes effectively bans all unsolicited text message ads received in the state. It now goes to the full Assembly for a vote.

NJ Bans Unsolicited Text Messages

A woman kidnapped by a man who forced his way into her car and demanded she perform a sex act on him has been saved after secretly texting her boyfriend her whereabouts.

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The Winston-Salem-Forsyth County Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday night for a new policy that encourages school system employees and volunteers, including community coaches, to not send text messages to individual students.

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61% of respondents said they own a smartphone today, with 91% of this demographic reportedly using SMS regularly even with various other instant messaging services on their handsets. 65% of these SMS users said they need the service today and 45% of them even said they would be lost without it.  

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Are flirty text messages a sign your spouse is cheating?

In the video above from Wednesdays episode of Dr. Drew's Life Changers, Dr. Drew Pinsky talks to a woman, Violet, who believes her husband is cheating on her after discovering questionable text messages on his phone, including one where he tells another woman he loves her.

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Have a look at the mobile and cell phone logo designs for businesses.

Text messaging is so common that many of us take it for granted.  Now, this technology is providing a new way to save a childȗs life.  One American doctor has tested the use of text messaging as a way of reminding parents to get their children vaccinated against influenza -- a potentially fatal disease. The World Health Organization says that influenza, or flu, causes up to half a million deaths every year.  It is particularly dangerous for children under the age of 5.

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According to a survey from the Pew Research Center taken across 21 countries, 75 percent of people with cellphones say they text. And that is not just countries with smartphones and a lot of money. Even relatively poor countries like Kenya and Indonesia do it at even higher rates.

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ParentingPride is a new and innovative text message archiving app for Android smartphones created by parents for parents seeking to protect their children in a digital age.  Contrary to public belief phone companies do not back up text messages, but this new app creates an effortless archive to establish accountability in the cyber world.

ParentingPride was founded on the trust between parents and children and does not condone a child rights to privacy being infringed upon.  Archiving is a simple way for children to defend themselves with peers or share their story with adults when a problem begins to interfere with being a kid.

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A new trend in identity theft is surfacing across the Four States and it is being done through text messages.

In the past couple of weeks several people have received text messages from numbers with out-of-state area codes claiming they have won a big prize.  The messages appear to be a scam to get a hold of personal information and local law enforcement say it is easy to avoid becoming a victim.

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Hands-free text messaging: Nissan introduced Nissan Connect, which uses the drivers Bluetooth phone to provide connectivity to streaming audio and the Web. Nissan Connect will include a hands-free Text Messaging Assistant, which can read incoming texts out loud.

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