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Hands-free text messaging: Nissan introduced Nissan Connect, which uses the drivers Bluetooth phone to provide connectivity to streaming audio and the Web. Nissan Connect will include a hands-free Text Messaging Assistant, which can read incoming texts out loud.

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A new internet-based tool allows residents to anonymously text crime tips to police in Allentown.

Police can also respond back via a two-way anonymous chat.

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Chartered Health Plan, Inc., the oldest Medicaid managed care organization in the nations capital, is launching a new text-messaging program for its diabetic members that will disseminate diabetes-related information on their mobile phones to keep members involved in their own care. Chartered executives also said they plan to establish personal health records for their members.

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Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to poor spelling and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But Adrian Aguilera, a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has found an upside to texting, especially for people who feel stressed out, isolated, and alone.

Aguilera, a clinical psychologist who treats many low-income Latinos for depression and other mental disorders, says his patients report feeling more connected and cared for when they receive text messages asking them to track their moods, reflect on positive interactions, and take their prescribed medications.

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If you thought you were safe from political phone advertisments because you no longer had a house phone, think again.

Communication strategiests say text messaging is providing one of the most effective ways to reach potential political supporters.

The 160-character messages can be used to encourage last-minute donations or provide information on where to vote.

But texting can also pose a potential danger for political campaigns.

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College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently risk having poor learning outcomes, finds a new study accepted for publication in the National Communication Associations journal.

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Text message spam has started waking Bob Dunnell in the middle of the night, promising cheap mortgages, credit cards and drugs. Some messages offer gift cards to, say, Walmart, if he clicks on a Web site and enters his Social Security number.

Bob Dunnell has reported some text spam to the Federal Trade Commission, to little avail.

Replying NO or STOP to text spam may only verify to spammers that you have a working number that can then be resold.

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A warning to all cell phone users -- check your bill thoroughly. You may be paying for unwanted services.

It appears the charges start showing up after you get a text message from a company, but get this, the charges appear even if you do not reply to the message.

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Text messages will be included in the national Do-Not-Call registry under a draft data protection Bill, despite resistance from some companies calling for their exclusion.

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Eufaula police are investigating a child molestation case involving a girl and multiple men.

The case reportedly came to light last month when the girl's grandparent found notes and text messages in the childs bedroom. The writings described what was being done to her, according to authorities.

After collecting enough probable cause in the case, police made three arrests last week and are searching for a fourth suspect.

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A man wanted on felony warrants was arrested after he sent a text message to a detective, police in Edmonds, Wash., said.

Police detective Brian McIntyre said he received a text message from a number he did not recognize. The text said, Who are you? and the detective responded with a similar question, KOMO-TV, Seattle, reported Wednesday.

McIntyre said there was no response until he received another message from the phone number two days later. And it said Come get me,'and then a not-so-nice word, he said. I was like, oh, that sounds like a criminal.

McIntyre said he plugged the number into a police computer and discovered it belonged to Jason Wrenchy, 29, a man McIntyre had previously arrested for burglary and drugs. He said Wrenchy had two outstanding warrants on felony charges.

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Interesting ways that SMS messages have helped the neediest in the world.

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Texting has not just improved life for the deaf. It also profoundly has changed life for millions of non-verbal people.

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Mobile devices often get accused of alienating people from the world around them. But for U.S. teens, cell phones, especially text messaging are a key way to stay connected with friends and other people in their lives, according to new research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.