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The nations largest cable TV company, Comcast Corp., was set to take control of NBC Universal on Friday after the government shackled its behavior in the coming years to protect online video services such as Netflix and Hulu.

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A 17-year-old Columbia High School student is out on bond for allegedly threatening to blow up the school.

Investigators say Kelsey Davis sent a bomb threat to a teacher via text message using an app that disguised the message with a long distance number.

Bomb Threat via Text Messages

Mobile phone text messaging can boost childrens spelling skills, according to new research.

Text Messaging Improves Spelling

1. iPhone sales will rocket on the back of the Verizon deal

I predict Apple will sell another 10-12 million iPhones in 2011 through its new deal to supply the US carrier Verizon with CDMA handsets. In 2010, Apple sold approximately 40-45 million iPhones.

The top of the market for smartphone handsets will continue to be dominated by Apple worldwide.

Mobile Trends for 2011

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A 15-year-old youth was shot dead during a street brawl between two rival groups in the Bronx organised through mobile phone text messages.

The feuding groups had agreed to meet in the Williamsbridge area on Monday evening to settle a three-week dispute.

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Diner Connection sends text messages to restaurant patrons to let them know when their table is ready. This is a new startup.

While this protocol is popular, it was not designed for paging and as such it is not time sensitive, there can be delays in the receipt of the email depending on the routing (this does not have anything to do with the software but the design of the protocol). If your carrier supports SNPP or WCTP we would suggest using those protocols if time is an issue!

SMTP Setting to Send SMS

The Federal Communications Commission has opened a Notice of Inquiry, seeking public comment on how best to update the nation's 911 services. The FCC wants to expand 911 beyond the phone call for help, bringing advanced communication technologies to the decades old emergency program.

According to the FCC, there are more than 650,000 911 calls made daily, and nearly 70% of those come from mobile devices. However, right now you can not text 9-1-1, said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, noting that during the Virginia Tech school shootings in 2007, some witnesses tried to text 911 but the texts simply never went through and the messages were not received by dispatchers.

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Google admitted this week that an issue with how the Android OS handles contacts and text messaging is causing phones to sometimes randomly send or misdirect SMS messages to the wrong users. The issue was first reported in late June of last year, but was not confirmed as a legitimate bug until now.

Engineers have been able to recreate the issue, and now say that they believe the problems stem from two different issues with the Android OS. That said, the company stressed occurrences of the bug are rare, and a fix for the problem has been developed and would be released soon.

Finding out when the next bus or LRT is scheduled to arrive just got a whole lot easier.

And it is free.

On Friday ETS unveiled a new pilot program. Through the use of a mobile phone, riders will gain access to bus schedule information by sending a text message to 31100, and almost instantly will get a return text with the requested information.

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Texas Tech self-imposes NCAA sanctions for text messaging violations.

Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has been gone for over a year but he is still getting in trouble.

The school acknowledged in a press release Friday their self-imposed sanctions following the institutionÈ—s discovery of text messaging violations within the athletics program have been accepted by the NCAAÈ—s Committee on Infractions.

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Everyone and their mama is using SMS these days thus we were not surprised to learn that ABI Research predicts more than 7 trillion SMS messages will be sent worldwide in 2011, from nearly 4.2 billion mobile subscriptions.

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A kiss at midnight on New Years Eve is no longer enough for partygoers celebrating the turn of the year, with millions now sending text messages as well.

A bump in the number of texts is expected to be sent on Friday night, with over 25% more than last year predicted by the mobile phone networks.

According to security experts, an SMS of death threatens to disable many current Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Micromax and LG mobiles.

In recent months, the tendency has been for hackers and security testers to focus their efforts on smartphones such as the iPhone or Android-based phones. However, according to Mulliner, only 16 per cent of mobile phone users possess sophisticated handsets of this type. By contrast, worldwide, more than 4.6 billion people use simpler feature phones. These often have just a single processor, are unable to run external native applications, but are often able to run Java apps.

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The National Highway and Motorway Police in Pakistan is going to launch a Short Message Service (SMS) from the new year to create awareness about road safety in commuters and inform them about weather conditions.