If rumor is right, it looks like AT&T is going to start their attack plan to beat the Verizon iPhone. A source has leaked to Gear Live a Best Buy company memo that says that AT&T will be changing text messaging plans to $10 for 1000 messages and $20 for unlimited texting. Each additional message will [...]
Patrons who think that their waiter isn’t working fast enough might have a new tool in their arsenal. A new service called Text My Food allows customers to text their waiter their orders and their requests such as extra ketchup or the check instead of waiting for the server to come around to their table. [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) thinks that it’s time for an overhaul of the 911 emergency system to allow users to text 911 with messages, pictures and video in case of emergencies. In a statement issued today, the organization stated that texting 911 could be beneficial in situations like the Virginia Tech shootings, where picking up a phone and [...]
With the wave of recent sexting scandals making headlines, parents have become concerned that their text-happy children might be getting into some adult behavior with repercussions they don’t understand. Apple thinks they might have the solution to this new age problem.
Free text messaging services aren’t anything new, but the recently-released HeyWire breaks the mold a bit by offering a static, unchanging phone number that you can give out to your friends to let them text you, free international text messaging to and from 114 countries, and a web-based interface that allows you to send text [...]
Apple’s 4mer “I’m a Mac” spokesperson Justin Long was on Jimmy Kimmel last night promoting his new movie and shared a series of texts that he exchanged with a female tween. Nothing perverse, mind you, but it did offer a bit of incite into America’s youf. Oh, and Long rocks a jailbroken iPhone. LOLZZZZ.
Swype is a pretty compelling new input method for touch-screen devices. Most of us have seen Samsung’s world record breaking fastest text messaging commercial, which seemed a bit gimmicky until I actually tried it out on a device.
A beta version of Swype’s very-excellent software keyboard interface has been made available to Android users for a limited time—“probably a few days”—according to the company’s website.
Just a quick PSA for those of you who partake in prepaid carrier plans. T-Mobile will roll out the following plans on Wednesday (6/19).
