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Facing some of Americas biggest education challenges, Benjamin Castleman thinks small. In his new book, The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education, the University of Virginia education professor argues that the humble text message can boost student achievement, improve study habits, and help students stay on track in the transition from high school to college.

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Lets face it: weight loss is not only an enormous preoccupation in American minds, but an enormous investment of American time and money. With about half of American adults trying to lose weight and an estimated 65 billion dollars being spent each year by Americans on weight loss-related products and services, there simply has to be a better way. And, studies suggest, there is.

Text Messaging Can Help Weight Loss, Study Says

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Anthropologist Amber Case says our technology is changing us into cyborgs. She argues we have become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of Homo sapiens.

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The Helpline Center is also trying to reach out to more college students struggling with depression. It has expanded its crisis texting program for high school students to the University of Sioux Falls, Augustana University and South Dakota State University. Students can simply text a special code to get help from an expert on mental health issues.

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Twilio’s one of those services you have been using without even realizing it.

For example, when Uber sends you a text message after a driver accepts a request or the ride arrives, it relies on Twilios technology to do it. The number you call to reach the driver is a temporary, one-time number created by Twilio too. Uber simply has to integrate Twilios software code into its app to make it happen.

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General Texting Statistics

1. Texting is the most widely-used and frequently used app on a smartphone, with 97% of Americans using it at least once a day. (Pew Internet)
2. People worldwide will send 8.3 trillion text messages in just this year alone. That is almost 23 billion messages per day, or almost 16 million messages per minute. (Portio Research)
3. Over 6 billion text messages are sent in the U.S. each day. (Forrester)
4. Over 80% of American adults text, making it the most common cell phone activity. (Pew Internet)
5. Text messages have a 98% open rate, while email has only a 20% open rate. (Mobile Marketing Watch)
6. Text messaging has a 45% response rate, while email only has a 6% response rate. (Velocify)
7. Texting takes up 14.1% of cell phone users time. (Nielsen)
8. 90% of all text messages are read in under 3 minutes. (Connect Mogul)

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NotePage, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of NotePager Pro version 5. NotePager Pro leverages the power of the Internet to send SMS and text messages to mobile phones and pagers. NotePager Pro is carrier and device independent. This means it will send to any mobile phone, telecom carrier, pager or wireless enabled PIM. In a cost saving measure, many telecom carriers are expanding their use of the Internet as a means of accepting messages. NotePager Pro takes advantage of these new capabilities by supporting all of the latest Internet messaging protocols: SNPP, WCTP, and SMTP. NotePager Pro version 5o takes advantage of the fact that more cellular modems are now commercially available and direct transmission of SMS messages via GSM and CDMA is increasing in popularity. NotePager Pro has integrated support for cellular modems.

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Massachusetts prosecutors say Michelle Carter sent her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, dozens of text messages urging him to take his own life.

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Almost half of Kenyan mothers do not give birth in a hospital and, thus, receive little professional care or education on basics such as how long to breast feed, what to do in the case of diarrhea and vomiting, or where to go for an emergency. In this issue of Digital Diversity, Cayte Bosler looks at an innovative text messaging service which helps parents differentiate between normal behaviors and signs that something might be wrong.

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Texting and schooling: they do not quite seem to work together. But, schools are showing us more each day, they do.

We often tend to think of texting as a plague to education, and maybe it has been, distracting leagues of students studying at home and even students who find their focus wavering in the classroom. But schools are turning the tables, embracing the medium in a number of ways to improve the students' experience at school. Could texting become a boon, not a bane, to education?

Texting Toward Degrees

Researchers at Stanford University have found that text messaging, given its widespread use, low cost, and ease of scalability, is an ideal vehicle for improving parents' engagement in their childrens schooling.

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Even a presidential candidate’s most devoted supporters could be forgiven for trying to tune out the torrent of campaign emails, Twitter messages, Facebook posts, Instagrams and Snapchats that steadily flood voters inboxes and social-media feeds in this digitized, pixelated, endlessly streaming election cycle.

But a text message is different.

A text message — despite its no-frills, retro essence — is something personal. Something invasive. Something almost guaranteed to be read.

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