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Games

School Shows Students Dangers of Texting While Driving Using Mario Kart

3:00AM 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.
Phones

Texting While Driving Is Becoming Ridiculous

10:00AM 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. More »
Networks

SpinVox Coming To Optus Customers This Year

11:00AM 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 »
Phones

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

11:00AM 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. More »