NotePage SMS, Texting and Messaging Blogs

As much as we love our phones, their widespread use has a number of negative consequences, and the fact that almost one in four car collisions involve cell phones is a particularly grave one. However, many innovators have responded to this danger, developing technologies that aim to reduce the role of cell phones in distracted driving. These devices and applications serve to build understanding of the perils of distracted driving as well as to fight drivers' urges to use their phones on the road.

How Your Phone Can Make Driving Safer

A texting service that sends a message to your phone everyday with a word + definition + example sentence. Now available via email!

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It seems self-evident that the health sector, among others, would utilize text messaging for near instant communication among doctors, nurses, and other hospital and clinic personnel when time is quite often of the utmost essence with patient lives.

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So we love our phones and for good reason. But, sometimes, those amazing little devices play tricks on us. Have you ever sent a text to someone and realized a moment later that you sent it to the wrong person?

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Funded by Cancer Australia, the 12-month trial targeted individuals aged between 18 and 42 - an age group in which mobile phone use is almost universal - and the results have just been published in international journal Preventative Medicine.

A Queensland-first, the Healthy Text trial tested the impact and value of SMS-delivered messages promoting sun protection along with skin self-examination for early detection of skin cancer, while a third group received texts encouraging physical activity.

Weekly texts for the first 12 weeks were followed by monthly text messages for another nine months and a final in-depth telephone interview was conducted.

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Studies show that by age four, kids from low-income households will hear 30 million less words than their more affluent counterparts, who get more quality face-time with caretakers. That means the already disadvantaged are falling behind before the academic race has even begun. Educators have so far been largely unsuccessful when it comes to finding ways to bridge the so-called word gap.

But researchers at Stanford University think they may have found a solution.

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A new survey from Salesforce of 1,700 American adults shows that most are satisfied with the care they receive from their physicians, despite fairly limited adoption of online tools to communicate with their doctors.

Less than 10 percent of those surveyed said they use the web, email or text to set up appointments, compared to 76 percent that still do so over the phone and 25 percent that schedule their appointments in person.

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A new Wisconsin crisis line that encourages youths to text their troubles could be a boon to help increasing numbers of stressed adolescents cope, according to a La Crosse County health officials.

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On the way to the outdoor resort where former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was killed, he sent a text message to the friend sitting next to him about the third man in the truck: This dude is straight-up nuts.

and the response He is right behind me. Watch my six, Littlefield wrote, using a military phrase meaning watch my back.

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A new version of PageGate has been released details about the point release can be found in the PageGate release notes.

Despite the attention, huge swathes of the American population still have no clue what net neutrality refers to. According to a recent Pew poll, some 40 percent of Americans either do not understand the concept or they have flat out never heard of it.

Even fewer understand the relationship between net neutrality and SMS.

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One of his tips was to send loving text messages to each other during the day. Enter: love bombs. Enjoy the list!

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Many customers of Mossy Toyota, a San Diego dealership near the beach, are millennials, generally ages 18 to early 30s. In an increasingly digital, on-the-go world, Dale Snows challenge was to devise the most effective way to update them on car repairs.

The answer? A text message.

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If you are eager to know when a book or other library material that you have put on hold is ready for pick-up, we have a new service to help you. Now you can sign up to receive a text message alert on your mobile phone that your hold item is in. It also allows you to renew your items just by sending us a text message.

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Verizon is discontinuing support for its TAP service effective 2/2/2015. If you have the Verizon TAP system configured in NotePager Pro or PageGate, this configuration will no longer function.

To quote Verizons support page:

Beginning 01/31/2015 we will no longer offer support for TAP (Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol). If you are using a modem-based 1-800 TAP service to send text messages through our network, contact your business sales team for support.

If you or your organization are not part of an Emergency Management Service, unfortunately, this only leaves SMTP as a viable protocol for delivering messages to Verizon cell phones and you will need to update your configuration from TAP to SMTP.

If you or your organization are part of an Emergency Management Service, you can register on the Verizon Enterprise Messaging Access Gateway (EMAG, for short) by contacting your organization, city, county, state or regional Verizon Representative and requesting their assistance to register. Once the registration is complete, this will provide you with access to use SNPP, WCTP or SMTP to deliver your messages.

With the expansion of cell phones into so many aspects of our lives, it's hardly surprising that cell phones are playing a growing role in the political sphere. A huge majority of 88% of American voters own cell phones, 27% of whom have used their devices for politics-related purposes. While it is clear that the relationship between cell phones and politics has grown to be significant, it is less immediately evident what, exactly, the new role of cell phones in politics is.

New Role of Cell Phone in Politics