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School Shows Students Dangers of Texting While Driving Using Mario Kart

3:00AM May 18, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Vail Christian High School is taking this texting-while-driving thing seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they’ve brought in one of the most realistic driving simulators ever conceived to teach kids the dangers of this practice.


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Texting While Driving Is Becoming Ridiculous

10:00AM May 12, 2009 | Jason Chen

It’s pretty redundant to make laws outlawing texting while driving because it already falls under laws covering distracted driving, but holy crap, something needs to be done about it.

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SpinVox Coming To Optus Customers This Year

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11:00AM April 24, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Remember back in February when we told you about SpinVox, the speech-to-text service that converts your voicemail into SMS messages for Telstra customers? Well, if you’re an Optus mobile customer, you’ll be able to enjoy the same service in the near future. More »


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Two Men Attempting to Set a Text Messaging Record Get $26K Phone Bill for 217K Texts

11:00AM April 23, 2009 | Andi Wang

Move over teenage girls: two friends from Philadelphia—both men—just received a bill for $US26,000 after sending 217,000 texts to each other in the month of March alone.

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