NotePage SMS, Texting and Messaging Blogs

02/24/2012 How Text and SMS Messaging Works

Messages are created on a computer and then can be sent to mobile phones or cell phones. Detailed description and explanation of how SMS messaging works.

02/22/2012 Girl Saved by Text Message

A text message sent by a kidnapped 14-year-old American girl to her mother led to her rescue, when police found her in a hand-dug, booby-trapped bunker.

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02/21/2012 Government Regs to Prevent Texting While Driving

The Department of Transportations draft regulations for auto manufacturers include designing cars to prohibit the sending of messages from built-in tech devices while the vehicle is in motion.

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02/20/2012 Super Bowl Text Ad Scores Big

Dozens of ads during the Super Bowl guided viewers to post a Twitter message, like a Facebook page or log on to a corporate Web site. But only one ad asked viewers to send a text message.

More than 1.7 million viewers followed through and sent a text, according to the National Football League, which conceived the ad for the Superbowl Broadcast and released the text message data on Thursday.

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02/15/2012 Stealth Texting

Researchers have created a prototype for a touch screen that can be used to send messages while it's concealed in a jacket or pants pocket. The stealthy screen works when it is touched through the fabric, whether it is silk, cotton or even thick fleece

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02/14/2012 Texting and Terrorism

A Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane began his path to terrorism with a text message from a top al-Qaida figure in Yemen, the U.S. government said Friday in a court filing that discloses new details about their relationship.

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02/09/2012 Texting Scams

What do you do when an anonymous SMS message soliciting load or money sent through an 11-digit prepaid number pops up in your mobile phone? How would you know that the message is for real or merely a hoax or scam?

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02/08/2012 Texting School Cancellations

A new program at the Flint School District will send text messages with information like school closings and district updates.

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02/07/2012 Uh Oh Text!

A recent Pew Research study found 73 percent of cell phone owners send text message and those who do, send an average of more than 40 messages each day. With all those text messages coming and going, it’s not surprising that some reach the wrong recipients.

In Meriden recently, police say officers received a text from an unknown sender, offering black market sale of Percocet tablets, the prescription combination of oxycodone and acetaminophen.

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