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Apple has patented a system that would lock drivers out of their smartphones while on the move, in a bid to cut down on accidents caused by texting and other distracting features.

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State senators hope to ban unsolicited text messages from telemarketers.  They recently passed a multi-part bill that adds texts to the Do Not Call list.

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Merged conversations, the biggest feature the update is bringing and one that has long been requested combines SMS and Hangout conversations with the same recipient. Users can choose to send a message via Hangouts or SMS just by flipping a switch on the app. Google has also made it easy for users to tell between SMS and Hangout messages by adding a via SMS label below messages received via SMS while sent messages will be differentiated by color - green for Hangouts messages and white for SMS messages.

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An Android Trojan app that sends SMS messages to premium-rate numbers has expanded globally over the past year, racking up bills for users in over 60 countries including the U.S., malware researchers from Kaspersky Lab said.

The malware program, which Kaspersky products detect as Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef, dates back to February 2013 and was originally designed to operate in Russia.

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There are two main ways to control your TV with your phone or tablet these days, and it will depend largely on what hardware you have available to you.

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PageGate can read in the input from a PBX system and send messages out to cell phones, smartphones and pagers.

Did you know that you can integrate a PBX system with PageGate?

A new study shows that three-quarters of consumers said they would rather text with a customer support agent than correspond with them through social media.

The majority of U.S. consumers would be likely to text with a live customer support agent, and the same percentage would prefer texting instead of their current method of reaching customer support, according to a customer support preference study by HeyWire Business, a mobile messaging service.

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Some Philadelphia women now get doctor's-appointment reminders by text message.

Many of those message concern updating birth control administered by shot,  a popular contraception choice among young women who get their care at Spectrum Health Services center in North and West Philadelphia. The shot, sold under the brand name Depo-Provera, provides long-lasting pregnancy protection, but works best when a patient returns for a booster shot every three months.

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PageGate can send messages to security personnel in urgent situations

Text messaging can serve a variety of purposes, from casually chatting with friends to ordering a pizza, but what about monitoring concussion symptoms?

Some, like researcher Stephanie Huang think it could be a tool for providing more personalized health care.

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In the last decade, movies and television have sprouted a new plot weakness: if tension hinged in any way on a situation that could have been solved by a simple cell phone call or text message, the call was never placed and the text was never sent. To forget the pervasiveness of cell phones, and the ease with which we can tell each other things, is a crime.

But cell phones and digital messages have managed to worm their way into the storytelling in movies and TV despite a supposed natural ineptitude at stirring up drama. A text message is dispassionate, free of emotion and all too open to interpretation, according to some literature on the importance of, say, tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. But TV shows and movies have managed to integrate these dispassionate messages to logistical and, surprisingly, emotional effect, reflecting the significance that messaging has gained for us over the years.

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To say a text-messaging program between high school students and four colleges and universities in West Virginia is working would be an understatement.

The College Foundation of West Virginia  began a three-year pilot project in January that utilizes text-messaging to promote college access and support student success for a high school senior through his or her freshmen year.

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A group of enterprising cybercriminals have figured out how to get cash from a certain type of ATM by text message.

The latest development was spotted by security vendor Symantec, which has periodically written about a type of malicious software it calls Ploutus that first appeared in Mexico.

The malware is engineered to plunder a certain type of standalone ATM, which Symantec has not identified. The company obtained one of the ATMs to carry out a test of how Ploutus works, but it does not show a brand name.

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The consumer research company Nielsen Mobile, which kept track of 50,000 individual customer accounts in the second quarter of this year, found that Americans each sent or received 357 text messages a month, compared with just 204 phone calls. That was the second repeated quarter in which texting significantly surpassed the number of voice calls.

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Text messaging may be dying out as a means of communication in many parts of the advanced world, but it may yet prove to be a vital life-saver in flood-prone African villages.

An early-warning system that aims to capitalize on the explosive growth of mobile phone penetration in Africa could soon be in place to broadcast alerts to all users at risk from natural disasters such as flooding or hurricanes.

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Sometimes it is the little things that matter. Like being able to carry on texting without walking into a tree. Apple apparently thinks so anyway.

A patent that Cupertino filed back in September 2012 has just surfaced with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that shows the company thinking up ways to help people keep walking and texting without bumping into stuff.

The transparent texting system replaces the background of a mobile devices text messaging app with a continuous real-time video feed, using the devices rear camera, so the user can both see what’s being said, and where they are going.

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