Online

Turn Off Twitter DM SMS If You Don’t Want To Embarrass Yourself

Twitter has a feature that could lead you to publicly humiliating yourself, so if you don’t enjoy embarrassment, now is a good time to protect yourself by shutting it down.


October 13, 2010
Mobile

Apple’s New Anti-Sexting Technology

Apple is continuing its war on sexxy content on your iPhone! The next victim: text messages. A patent (filed in 2008) was just approved for “systems, devices and methods” of filtering text messages based on “objectionable content”. You know, sexting.


September 23, 2010

T-Mobile Claims Right To Censor Text Messages

T-Mobile told a federal judge on Wednesday it may pick and choose which text messages to deliver on its network in a case weighing whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as wire-line telephone providers.


August 27, 2010
Computing

Complicated Chinese Characters Harder To Text, Easier To Forget

A survey of Chinese youths has found that 83 per cent of them have struggled to remember the precise format of their language’s characters when writing, old-school style, with a pen or pencil. Computers and phones are to blame.


August 19, 2010
Software

Why Isn’t There A Better Way To Text While Driving?

It’s deadly. It’s irresponsible. And we’ve all done it. Before you commute home think about this: Why isn’t there a better solution to texting while driving?


August 18, 2010
Mobile

The Kids Are Texting A Frightening Amount

It goes without saying that texting is startlingly popular – but what does popular even mean? Mashable has an infographic illustrating who’s texting the most (hint: teen girls), where and how far we’ve come since the advent of the SMS. [Mashable]


May 3, 2010
Computing

Jailbroken iPad 3G Sends Text Messages

The crafty cats at iPhone Dev Team have cracked the iPad 3G so that the device can send SMS messages. It’s a no-nonsense hack, working at the command line only, but as you’ll see in the video it’s entirely legit:


February 14, 2010
Mobile

OMG I Did Not Text That

It’s the worst feeling: Waking up completely wrecked from the night before, only to realise with a dull sweat that you pressed ‘Send’. Fortunately for the rest of us, what you drunkenly texted is often hilarious.


February 2, 2010
Gadgets

Teen’s Science Project Sends Texts From 300m Underground

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Kendrick has put together a low-frequency radio which allows for the transmission of text messages from caves nearly 1000 feet (300m) underground. I still can’t get a single bar of reception on the subway.


January 4, 2010
Software

Windows Mobile Texts From 2016 Are A Bug, Not A Feature

Sorry to burst your warp bubble, bucko, but that text message you received the other day from a mobile phone user in the year 2016 was just some stupid bug.