Verizon has announced plans to let customers text 911 during emergencies.
To help you in your quest to decode your kids’ space-constrained text babble, we’ve compiled a list of popular terms and abbreviations. These 92 terms are among the most popular, but know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
A new poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the average teen sent out 60 texts a day in 2011. That’s up from the 50 texts they were sending daily in 2009.
There’s no doubt that distracted driving can lead to car accidents that injure or kill, and the recommended ban is certainly well intended. But the NTSB may not be doing the right thing. An educational campaign to change driver’s habits would be a much better approach.
There’s little to make you feel as out of touch with what’s happening with “the kids today” as discovering that there are all manner of words that apparently have double meanings that you were entirely unaware of. For example, “Kmart.” Or “hobo.” Or “murder.” All of which were contained on a list of obscene words that the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority recently attempted to have banned from text messaging within the country.
A new Pew Internet study takes a look at the texting habits of cell phone owners. The findings show that of the 83% of American adults who own cell phones, roughly 73% of them send text messages and about 31% of them prefer texting to actually talking on the phone.
A war’s brewing between BlackBerry Messenger and Apple’s upcoming iMessage, and Samsung isn’t content to sit on the sidelines. The phone and tablet maker plans to launch its own mobile messaging service called “ChatON,” with the promise of supporting even its competitors’ smartphones.
On August 21, AT&T will once again “streamline” its text messaging plans, leaving only unlimited and pay-per-text options for new subscribers.
What’s the point of a smartphone?
Correction Appended: July 19, 2011
Could you beat the world’s best texters in a race of speed and accuracy? Try your hand…err fingers at the LG Mobile World Cup. Winner gets $50,000 (split from a grand prize of $100,000) and the honor of being known as “the world’s fastest texter.”
