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Investigators studied whether teenagers would be interested in receiving texts about health on their phones and how they would like those messages presented.

For one-year period, researchers studied 177 adolescents, ages 12-18 and discovered that most teens were open to receiving such texts, but the way in which they were worded made a big difference.

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Off-duty 911 operator Coryse Hercules used text messaging to alert police that a fellow passenger on a Staten Island bus was carrying firearms in his bag .

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Leaders of some of Central Floridas largest governments have been deleting text messages that likely would be considered public records under Florida law, an Orlando Sentinel review of records has found.

The review also found public officials have sometimes used text messaging for substantive discussions with lobbyists and others.

Both Orange County and the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority acknowledged to the Sentinel that some of their board members and senior staffers have erased or otherwise lost government-related text messages that can no longer be recovered.

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A woman by the name of Laura Safe learned an important lesson recently — pay attention to where you are walking while text messaging. Laura was paying attention to her phone when she walked down a flight of stairs and right into an icy cold canal.

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On Monday night people in the Philadelphia region received a text message about a missing child, it was the 1st time such a message was sent through a next government communication alert system.

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Texting has now officially graduated from pubescent obsession and a behind-the wheel hazard for drivers to a vital informational exchange tool for businesses.

Thanks to the omnipresence of smartphones, texting has become an integral part of communications in the business world, according to RingCentral Inc., a cloud-based business phone provider.

The companys survey of more than 1,000 adults revealed that 79 percent use text messaging for business.

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A service to let smartphone users text money to each other by just sharing their phone numbers will launch in Britain in the spring of 2014, officials said.

In the scheme being backed by eight major financial institutions, smartphone owners will be asked if they want to opt-in to a database that will allow money to be sent by text messages, the BBC reported Tuesday.

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You could buy one of those remote ignitions, but then you gotta carry around an extra block on your keychain, and its range is not so great. Will OBrien came up with a better idea – starting your car with your iPhone by sending it an SMS. It is brilliant, and anyone can replicate his hack.

All you need to make the hack work is a jailbroken iPhone, an Arduino, an iPhone breakout board, and some random components.

Send a Text Message to Start Your Car

Mobile phone text messaging does not considerably enhance HIV-AIDS patients adherence to treatment, a study conducted in Cameroon reveals.

The study, which was published in PLoS ONE last month, found that the use of weekly motivational text messages did little to increase the number of patients sticking to antiretroviral treatment (ART).

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Minnesota researchers will soon get text messages from dead moose.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Friday it will conduct research aimed at better understanding the sharp decline in the states moose population. Through a combination of GPS technology and implanted devices, researchers think they can get a quicker handle on the locations and causes of moose deaths.

Researchers believe the study has value beyond the iconic giant of the north woods, because the ailments killing moose could shed light on health threats to other species, including humans.

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You can now have faith at your fingertips! Holy Name Province, the largest group of Franciscan Friars in the U.S, today announces that friars are now accepting prayer intentions via text messaging through their new Text a Prayer Intention to a Franciscan Friar program. Simply text the word PRAYER To: 306-44 and hit send.

Teens receive an average of 114 text messages per day.

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Yahoo has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly sending SMS messages to users without their consent.

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Quick list for sending text messages using some of the top telecom carriers. Check out the list of Top Carrier Settings for Sending Text Messages.

Each year we scratch our heads and come up with trends or technology that we think will be hot in the coming year. Checkout our list of What is Hot and What is Not in 2013.

Text me. Wait, do not. Not anything too private anyway.

That is because if a new proposal is approved by the Senate, each and every SMS message you send will be stored in a digital archive by your phone provider. Why, you ask? It's all in the name of law enforcement being able to using your messages as evidence to catch bad guys and solve cases. And it's also a government-sponsored privacy nightmare come to reality.

If passed, the proposal would be the first major update to the 27-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the latest in a string of blatant challenges to the Fourth Amendment, which served to protect citizens rights and information, unless law enforcement was granted a court-issued warrant.

But if this SMS-retention requirement makes it into law, the nearly 2.3 trillion text messages Americas 321.7 million wireless subscribers send in a year would all become the property of the Federal government, stored in a repository for 2 years.

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State and local law enforcement groups want wireless providers to store detailed information about your SMS messages for at least two years -- in case they are needed for future criminal investigations.

AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress.

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Americans are finding out what Carriers have known for years, consumers are using their Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile cell phones less and less for talking, but they are not saying any less. A new study by the Pew Research Center found that people are using their cell phones for a lot more than making calls. The study found that 82 percent of cell phone users take pictures with their phone, 80 percent use it to send and receive text messages, 56 percent use it to access the Internet, and 50 percent use it for email correspondence.

The Pew study found that nearly all cell phone users ages 18-29 use cell phones for texting. Almost all other age demographics send text messages from their cell phones, except those 65 years old and over, who do not utilize texting as frequently. Furthermore, the amount of text messages that are sent every year is rapidly increasingly.

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A record breaking 223 million text messages are estimated to have beeped and buzzed their way across Australia as the nation marked the start of 2013 in truly digital style.

Major telcos reported that their networks held up well under surging demand for text messaging and social media sites during new year celebrations, with just before midnight to 1am on January 1 the peak time for mobile phone use.

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Text messaging may be going the way of the LP, and social media might be to blame for the decline in SMS in a more-connected-than-ever world.

Text messaging came to prominence in the early to mid-00s, as people realized they did not have to actually get on the phone to pass on a brief message to a friend, colleague or family member. Soon text messaging supplanted phone calls as the preferred method of communication between connected individuals, with the exception of a few texting abstainers who remained insistant that the process was confusing, annoying or inconvenient.

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A new proposal is working its way through Washington, D.C. to archive peoples text messages.

Police are backing the proposal. They want wireless companies to keep detail records of your texts for two years to aid in possible investigations.

As of 2010, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint did not keep the content of text messages. Verizon did for five days, Virgin Mobile did for 90.