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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Random Stuff

Obama Bans Government Employees From Driving While Texting

8:00AM Matt Buchanan | An executive order from President Obama bans all government employees—including soldiers and postal workers—from texting while driving if they’re working, driving one of Uncle Sam’s cars or using one of his mobile phones. Meaning we’re all next. [Ars]
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Software

Ping Is Like A Free SMS Client For iPhone And iPod Touch Users

10:00AM Jason Chen | This Ping app by the guy who made PushGmail is a mix between text messaging and instant messaging. What you need to know is that it’s free and it’s fast. More »
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Random Stuff

Best Use Of SMS Technology Yet (NSFW)

2:55PM Jesus Diaz | What you are looking at here is a) a great ad for New Axe Day and Night, b) a semi-naked stunning blonde in transparent lingerie, c) the best use of SMS technology yet, or d) all of the above. More »
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Vehicles

Silly Carmakers Don’t Think You Should Text And Drive

11:20AM Matt Buchanan | The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers are the latest to support a national law against texting while driving. Clearly, they haven’t seen me: I can simultaneously eat Chik-fil-a, shift gears, Twitter, send email via iPhone and brush my teeth. Perfectly. [CrunchGear]
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Random Stuff

China Threatens Jail Time For Sexy Texting

6:40AM Jason Chen | China’s threatening a crackdown on people sending seductive messages to each other. More »
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Phones

Jetstar Trialling SMS Boarding Passes

3:30PM Nick Broughall | This is great news for frequent travellers – Jetstar is trialling a system that lets you use an SMS message as your boarding pass, forgoing the need to actually print anything off. More »
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Phones

iPhone SMS Security Flaw Could Allow ‘Every iPhone’ To Be Hijacked

8:20AM Adam Frucci | Apparently, there’s a security flaw on the iPhone that allows it to be hijacked via SMS. And when, hijacked, your phone can then hijack all other iPhones in your contacts list. I think you see where this is going. More »
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Phones

You’re 23 Times More Likely To Crash Your Car If You’re Texting

6:43AM Matt Buchanan | So says the “first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles,” by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Long-haul trucks were lojacked with cameras for 18 months, and the results showed that drivers were 23 times more likely to wreck when they were texting. The results apply to everybody, not just truckers, they say. Scary. [NYT]
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Software

iPhone Group SMS Bug Seems To Be Fixed

2:47PM Nick Broughall | After yesterday’s post on the iPhone 3.0 group SMS bug, we’ve received a few reports from Optus customers that the bug has been fixed. All you have to do is sync your iPhone with iTunes, press the update button and download the updated carrier settings file. Bam – group SMS is back. Anyone on Voda or Telstra wanna let us know if this works for them?
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Software

iPhone 3.0 Software Sending Group SMS Messages As MMS

12:18PM Nick Broughall | Considering the iPhone had email, MMS wasn’t really at the top of my “must-have feature” list for the 3.0 software update, but when it was announced anyway, I shrugged my shoulders with indifference. Only now that indifference has become annoyance with the discovery that the iPhone now refuses to send group SMS messages, instead forcing you to send them as group MMS. More »
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