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• Donations By Text is Chilling
  Half of the 863 donors included in the analysis by the Pew Internet Project, together with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, said they used their phones to make a contribution for Haiti immediately after hearing about the Text to Give campaign, and another 23 percent said they made it the same day they heard about it.
  
  That impulse translated into an estimated $43 million that arrived via about 4.3 million texted donations to support the Haiti relief effort, and it set off a race among nonprofit groups to tap what was perceived as a potential new gold mine.
  
  But the survey, which had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, also showed how hard the phenomenon has been to replicate.
  
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• Dumped by Mobile Phone
  Modern day romance is always on the fast lane. There is not even time to properly end a relationship. A survey says one in 10 people are dumped through a mobile phone text message.
  
  Around 25 percent of people interviewed confessed to having flirted with someone they should not have in a text message, said the survey of 2,000 people by mobile phone site Recombu.com.
• Scientists Evaluating Text Messaging
  R u being lazy when u text? Or are your texting shortcuts and abbreviations a display of creativity and imagination?
  
  Simon Fraser University researcher Christian Guilbault and researchers at the University of Ottawa and the Universite de Montreal are asking people to donate their text messages to science to help them answer those questions.
  
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• Text Message Cheating
  Educators say 60 students at a Houston-area school have been disciplined for apparent text message-related cheating on a December test.
  
  Officials on Thursday announced those Clear Lake High School students will get an English exam score of zero calculated into their final grade. The test counts for about 20 percent.
  
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• School System Encourages Sending Texts About Problems
  Rick Farnsler has roamed the halls of Elizabethtown Area High School as its resource officer since 2007, and he has never received a tip from a student via a telephone hotline or a tip box located in the school.
  
  But in the four months since Elizabethtown implemented a system enabling students to submit tips via cellphone text messages, Farnsler has gotten more than 60 anonymous messages about drugs, vandalism, bullying and other concerns.
  
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• Lessons Learned About Text Donations
  The Pew Internet and American Life Project on Wednesday released an in-depth study based on interviews with 863 people who sent donations to Haiti via text message.
  
  Pew found that most of these donations were made on impulse -- an immediate response to media coverage of the disaster, especially on television. For three-quarters of them, it was the first time they had ever donated via text message. Only a third of them made additional text donations to Haitian earthquake relief.
  
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• Albatross Will Soon Be Texting
  Texting is being increasingly used by researchers:
  
  Albatrosses will soon be sending text messages about how they feed their young.
  
  A zoology student this week expects to fit the first tracking devices to use cell phone technology to Royal Albatross on Otago peninsula.
  
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• PRTG and PageGate Integration Video Tutorial
  If you use PRTG network monitoring software and wish to use it, in conjunction with PageGate to send alerts to mobile phones and wirelss devices, we have put together a video tutorial to walk you through the setup process.
  
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• Text Tenants Rent Reminders
  A London borough is set to launch a free text messaging service for tenants which will remind them to pay their rent and get information on housing issues more easily.
• Smoking Cessation via Text
  The Smokefree T-X-T program offers 24 hour encouragement, advice, tips, all through texts and social media.  Once they sign up, they pick an expected quit date, and supportive text messages are also sent for up to 6 weeks, providing further support and motivation.
  
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• Texting Decline
  Perhaps to the chagrin of cellphone carriers, all signs point to text messaging?s continuing its decline in several parts of the world.
  
  In Finland, there was a significant drop on Christmas Eve, one of the busiest days of the year for texting, Tero Kuittinen, a senior analyst at M.G.I. Research, wrote in a blog post for Forbes.
  
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• Text Messaging Power
  In nearly every country, the young and the well-educated are especially likely to embrace all of these technologies.
  
  Cell phones are owned by overwhelmingly large majorities of people in most major countries around the world, and they are used for much more than just phone calls, particularly for SMS messaging and accessing social networks. In fact, text messaging is a global phenomenon: Across 21 countries surveyed by Pew Research, 75 percent of cell phone owners say they text.
  
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• Text4Baby
  Text4baby is a free service available to pregnant women and new moms through pregnancy and a baby's first year of life. The women receive three SMS text messages each week, focusing on a variety of topics, including birth defects prevention, nutrition, the flu, mental health, immunizations and safe sleep guidelines. The service also connects women to resources for prenatal and infant care.
  
  To sign up, text BABY to 511411. To receive messages in Spanish, text BEBE to that number. Sign-up is also available on the website, text4baby.org.
• Lions Sending SMS
  A new project to monitor the whereabouts of lions in Kenya ? especially important to nearby game herders who do not want their animals to be eaten ? is getting around the limited Internet infrastructure with the aid of simple cell modems.
  
  Lions are collared with small device that sends SMS messages to a central computer system to log each animals location.
  
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• Cell Phone Contract for Kids
  1. I understand that every text message I receive or send may be read by my parents, teachers, employers and law enforcement officers. If asked, I agree to truthfully decode texts.
  
  2. I will not send a text that contains profanity or sexually suggestive or explicit messages. If suggestive pictures are sent to me, I will delete them.
  
  3. I agree that text messages received or sent by me are not my private business.
  
  4. I will not read or send a text message during the hours I am supposed to be at school or work ? this includes baby-sitting.
  
  5. I will not read or send texts during a meal ? whether I am eating alone or not.
  
  6. I will not read or send a text in the presence of a person over the age of twenty-one 21 years. I will turn my cellphone off and conceal it in their presence.
  
  7. I will not read or send a text after 9 p.m. on weeknights. On weekends, holidays and summer breaks, I will not read or send a text after an agreed-on time.
  
  8. I will not read or send a text message while I am walking, running, riding a bicycle or driving any vehicle. I will not place or answer a cellphone call while I am driving any vehicle.
  
  9. I will not use my phone to gossip, spread rumors, flirt with another persons boyfriend, or defame or tear down another person.
  
  10. I will pay for a new phone with my own money if my phone is lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed.
  
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• Average Number of Messages Per Month
  According to Nielsen the following is the number of messages sent per month are:
  
  Age 13-17 - 3,417
  Age 18-24 - 1,914
  Age 25-34 - 928
  Age 35-44 - 709
  Age 45-54 - 434
  Age 55-64 - 167
  65+ - 64
  
  
  
• Spectrum Crunch
  With the millions of iPhones, BlackBerrys and Androids sold in the U.S., the massive demand for data use is far exceeding the supply of spectrum - the range of all possible frequencies through which signals can be transmitted.
  
  The growing demand has seen wireless companies scrambling to gain an advantage over rivals by finding new and creative ways to acquire the spectrum, in order to provide the growing number of cellular customers the abilities to surf the web, instant-message friends and download full length movies... all from their fingertips.
  
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• Ghosted Text Messages
  Mobile telephone users often send Short Text Messages dozens of times a day, secure in the knowledge that their SMSs are secret and private. This is no longer the case.
  
  The Nation has established that some messages you receive may not be coming from the person shown as the sender on your phone book.
  
  It is now possible for fraudsters to fake the identity of different mobile phone owners and send messages, some ill-intentioned, to offend the receivers.
  
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• Shopping Texts
  Jumping on the mobile bandwagon, DDR Corp. has launched a cell phone-based marketing program at 27 shopping centers, including properties in Aurora, Macedonia and Solon.
  
  The shopping center company, based in Beachwood, said customers at those open-air centers can choose to receive text messages for deals offered by nearby retailers.
  
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• Fugitive of the Week Texting
  Information about wanted fugitives in Northeast Ohio can now be texted anomymously to the U.S. Marshals Service. Tips can also be submitted on the internet.
  
  The text messaging option is in addition to the U.S. Marshals fugitive hotline number, 1-866-4-WANTED. In both methods, tipsters can remain anonymous and still qualify for reward money from the U.S. Marshals Service.
  
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• Drivers Will Not Hang Up
  A federal study says one in 20 drivers observed at any given moment is holding a mobile phone to his or her ear, and that almost one in 100 can be observed sending a text message or otherwise manipulating a digital device.
  
  At the typical daylight moment, some 13.5 million drivers are on a hand-held phone nationwide, the study says.
  
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released the study Thursday, saying the use of phones while driving is holding steady, and text messaging is growing, despite laws limiting hand-held devices and a tidal wave of publicity about tragedies cause by distracted drivers.
  
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• Use Texting to Quit Smoking
  Smokers trying to quit who took part in in a text messaging program called txt2stop more than doubled their chance of kicking the habit. Some smokers said that the text messages were like having an angel on their shoulder.
  
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• Bullying Via Text
  A growing number of U.S. kids say they have been picked on via text messaging, while there has been little change in online harassment, researchers reported Monday.
  
  Of more than 1,100 middle school and high school students surveyed in 2008, 24 percent said they had ever been harassed by texting. That was up from about 14 percent in a survey of the same kids the year before.
  
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• Donate via Text
  You can text FOOD to give money to UNICEF or text AFRICA to support the International Rescue Committee. Soon you'll be able to contribute via text to a Maryland politician, state officials say.
  
  Regulations to allow campaign contributions by text message are winding their way though a state approval process, and the system is expected to be in place early next year. The new method of giving is intended to encourage younger, tech-savvy donors to get involved in campaigns.
  
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• SMS is 19 Years Old
  Do you remember what you were doing 19 years? Odds are high you didn't own a mobile phone, though you may have been rocking a beeper. But believe it or not, the very first SMS text message was sent off nearly two decades ago, much to the bane of linguists who twitch every time they see a shorthand message make a mockery of the English or any other language.
  
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• A Sentence For Texting Dissent
  A retired truck driver was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for sending cellphone text messages that a court deemed insulting to Thailands monarchy.
  
  The conviction is the latest in a growing number of cases in Thailand under a law imposing harsh penalties for making insults or threats directed at King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 83, and his family, even in private communications.
  
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• Bionic Lenses
  Scientists have taken another step towards creating the bionic man of sci-fi lore with a wearable display mounted in a contact lens.
  
  A team from the University of Washington and Aalto University in Finland managed to squeeze all the necessary equipment into a wearable lens that could display information right before your eyes.
  
  This consists of an antenna which draws on power sent by an external source, as well as an integrated circuit which is able to store energy for use in a transparent sapphire chip which holds a blue LED.
  
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• Cellular Phone Etiquette
  Todays society is all about being connected 24/7. Cell phones now provide instant access to anyone and everyone, from corporate executives to housewives and children alike. While cellular connectivity is a comfort to some, it can be rude and disruptive to others. You may wish to be available at all times, but there are some times when it is simply not appropriate to use your cell phone.
  
  Also, cell phones should not be treated as status symbols, and should not be paraded out simply to impress others. Regardless of how new and impressive your cell phone may be, dragging it out in a public setting is seldom going to win you any fans.
  
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• Asthma Text Messaging
  Text message reminders help children -- but not teenagers -- stick with their asthma medication schedule, a new study finds.
  
  It is common for youngsters to forget to take asthma control medications, and missing doses can result in poor asthma control.
  
  This small pilot study included patients ages 6 to 17 who had moderate, persistent or more severe asthma and used inhaled corticosteroids to keep their asthma under control. The participants received daily text messages reminding them to take their controller medication, and their asthma control was monitored by researchers.
  
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• Cellular Policy
  Fremont County has adopted a policy regulating the use of cell phones, instant messaging and text messaging at work.
  
  The policy says:
  
  - Employees should exercise the same discretion in using personal cell phones as they use with Fremont County phones.
  
  - Employees should restrict personal calls during work time, striving to make them only during scheduled breaks or lunch periods in nonworking areas.
  
  - Employees should not engage in the use of a cell phone when doing so would cause a distraction not the user or co-worker assisting a member of the public.
  
  -Employees should avoid lengthy conversations on cell phones.
  
  -Cell phones should turn down the sounds on their phones or switch to vibrate to prevent them from becoming a distraction in the workplace.
  
  - The use of text messaging is limited to immediate family contact.
  
  Will other counties and companies follow suit?
• Cellular Spying
  Hackers have found a way to listen in on every move, see text messages and even know exactly where someone is by hijacking a cellphone.
  
  Software makers sell spyware as a way to catch a cheating spouse or protect children from a bad babysitter. The software allows the spy to peek in on another person through their cellphone.
  
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• SmartPhone a Right of Passage
  The car used to be the signal of adulthood, of freedom, according to Sheryl Connelly, the Ford Motor Companys manager of global consumer trends and futuring, said in a recent phone interview. It was the signal into being a grown-up. Now, the signal into adulthood for teenagers is the smartphone.
• Bullying via Text Message
  Bullying used to primarily take place at the bus stop, at recess on the playground or in the school hallways; however, adding easily accessible mobile devices into the equation provides more chances to directly target kids through platforms like social media and text messaging.
  
  A recent Pew  study claims that nearly nine out of ten (88 percent) American teens between the ages of 12 and 17 indicated that they have seen someone act cruelly toward another student on a social networking site.
  
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• No Citations for Text Messaging
  Teenagers and adults say they slip under the radar of law enforcement when they text on cellphones while driving their vehicles.
  
  A state law which became effective Dec. 1, 2010, bans people from driving a motor vehicle while writing or sending an electronic text message.
  
  Based on the amount of citations written for violating the law, many people continue to text and drive.
  
  A survey of local law enforcement agencies shows few if any citations written since the law went into effect Dec. 1.
  
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• Texting Lawsuits
  Text messages are an irresistible marketing opportunity for brands to connect with their customers. But some text campaigns are tripping over a federal law, leaving companies with a nasty legal bill instead of new sales.
  
  In a federal class action suit filed last week in Oakland, a California man accused a PR firm of sending an unsolicited quit smoking message to his cell phone. He said the firm, PHD, broke the Telemarketing and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and should be penalized at least $5 million.
  
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• Youth Send More Texts
  According to a survey of 2,227 adults by the Pew Research Center, the average text message user sends or receives an average of 41.5 messages a day.
  
  How much someone texts is not surprisingly tied to how old they are. Those in the 18-to-29 age group send or receive an average of 87.7 texts a day, whereas that total is only 4.7 for those in the 65-and-over group.
• Texting to Manage Diabetes
  Partners Healthcares Center won a research grant to pilot a text messaging program aimed at helping diabetic patients manage their condition.
  
  The program, called Mobilizing for Health, targets under-served patients to study whether personalized text messages have an impact on clinical outcomes and physical activity in people with Type II diabetes, who are often obese and have low activity levels.
• Texting in Schools a Tool
  Over the last few months, there has been increased interest in using text-messaging at school. Although many schools do still have strict policies that forbid using cell phones in class, more are exploring ways to use text-messaging as a communication tool to bridge home and school.
  
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• Unbelievable - A Fake Girlfriend is a Text Away
  Being single can be tough, but now there is a new service that will make your friends think you are taken, thanks to a text messaging service.
  
  You can carry on a non-existent relationship with the help of technology.  Add Fake Girlfriends number to your phone and text her whatever you'd like.  She'll respond with a series of loving messages.  Every time you talk to her, she responds.  
  
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• Mobile Messaging Still a Growing Market
  A study by UK-based Portio Research indicates that the worldwide mobile messaging was the highest earner in the industry, raking in US$179.2 billion in 2010 alone.
  
  The report said mobile message was set to rake in more than US$200 billion this year, and go beyond S$300 billion by 2014.
  
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• Lawsuits to Prevent Political Texting
  A week before Election Day, Democrats have taken legal action to try to stop thousands of unsolicited text messages encouraging people in Northern Virginia to vote against their candidates.
  
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• Ask a Librarian via Text
  UW?Madison Libraries patrons have the opportunity to ask questions of librarians in a new way. Beginning this week, texting is now an option for the Ask a Librarian service, which allows students, faculty, and staff to connect with reference librarians and staff at campus libraries from their dorm rooms, offices, off-campus?from anywhere they might need a research or general question answered.
  
  To send a question via text, send a text message from your phone or mobile device to 608-729-7886.
• Text Messaging for Vaccines
  Text messaging is being used in the campaign to vaccinate almost 40,000 Northland children and rangatahi against Meningococcal C. Health providers can send appointment reminders, lab result notifications and medication reminders. The system can also be used for measles outbreaks and other public health threats.
• Earthquake Alerts via SMS
  Soon you can get an SMS alert on your mobile phones 10 to 30 seconds after an earthquake occurs anywhere in Gujarat with its location and intensity. This is being made possible with the new Autolocation software which is installed at the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) centre in Gandhinagar. Subscribers for this service will have to simply register with ISRs website.
  
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• Texting and Driving Laws Being Ignored
  No matter how many lives are lost in texting-related car crashes, some people will still text while they drive. Even though 34 states have outlawed texting while driving, according to an October ghsa.org report, Edgarsnyder.com reported that at any given moment there are 812,000 vehicles being operated by drivers using a cell phone.
  
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• LAX Smuggling Ring Broken Up
  Authorities have revealed text messages used by two people involved in an alleged marijuana smuggling ring at Los Angeles International Airport.
  
  The son of a former Los Angeles fire chief was charged Monday with bribing a federal Transportation Security Administration officer at LAX to help him smuggle about 14 pounds of marijuana past security on nine separate trips.
  
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• Texting Leads to Meth Bust
  A simple text message led to a meth bust in Lawrence County.
  
  State Police say a retired police officer received a text message asking if he would like to purchase meth or heroin. The officer contacted State Trooper Josh Allen, a member of ISPs Meth Suppression Team, who then set up a meeting with the dealer through the retired officers cell phone.
  
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• Texting Do Not Call List
  Unwanted text messages sent to cell phones from solicitors would be added to prohibited activity under Wisconsins do not call list under a bill headed for debate in the state Senate.
  
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• Texting Stats
  - Ladies text more, but only just. Women sent 42 texts per day to the guys 41.
  - The 18 to 29 set loves. Ninety-five percent of cell phone owners in that age bracket send texts, and they average 88 per day. The median number is 40.
  - Folks older than 65 send a mere five texts per day.
  - Almost one in four 18-29 year olds sends or receives upwards of 100 texts per day. The 12 percent with bionic thumbs send or receive more than 200 daily.
  -The higher your education level, the less you text: Those with less than high school education average 70 texts per day. College grads average 24 texts per day
  - Text messaging and voice calling are related: Those who text the most also tend to make the most voice calls.
  
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• Text Messaging Helps with Weight Loss
  Texting to track your calories may help peel off pounds.
  
  Getting helpful text messages can help you lose weight, a new study reveals.
  
  College students who used cellphones to monitor calories and physical activity and received personalized feedback about how they were doing dropped significantly more weight than those who did not, new research shows.
  
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• Judge Texted Defendant
  A two-time felon who used text messaging to orchestrate deliveries in a New York City-to-Schenectady cocaine pipeline was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday.
  
  Judge to text-messaging cocaine dealer: U R going 2 prison for 20 years
• Political Contributions via Text Message
  The ability to contribute to your favorite California political candidates will soon be just a text message away, after the states ethics agency took a step Thursday to bring campaigning into the 21st century.
  
  The state Fair Political Practices Commission voted to allow contributions by text message as long as the candidates report the identity and address of those giving more than $100. The new regulation will take effect in about 30 days, and then campaigns and phone-plan carriers will have to take action to set up the contributing-by-texting systems.
  
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• Texting on the Rise According Telus
  The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association recently announced that in Q1 Canadians sent 18 billion text messages. March had the highest stats in history with just over 6 billion, or an average of 199 million messages per day.
• Sexting on the Rise
  Sexting is becoming more common among college students. According to a study done by Michelle Drouin, an assistant professor of psychology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 745 U.S. college students aged 18-25 suggest that sexting is a popular means of sexual communication between committed romantic relationships and casual sexual relationships.
  
  The study showed that 80 percent of students with committed romantic partners have sent or received sexually explicit text messages and 60 percent have sent or received sexually explicit pictures or videos. With casual sexual partners such as, flings or hookups, not boyfriends or girlfriends, 70 percent have sent or received sexually explicit text messages and 51 percent have sent or received explicit pictures or videos.
  
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• Texting Stats Vary by Age Demographic
  A study from the Pew Research Center has quantified what anyone who walks through the Quad likely already knows ? young people use text messaging more than twice as frequently as older adults.
  
  Young adults send and receive an average of 109.5 messages each day, while the entire adult population exchanges an average of only 41.5 messages per day according to a study released last week.
• High School Football Scores via Text
  NorthJersey.com announces its new text-based service that sends local high school sports scores directly to fans cell phones. The service will initially launch with football scores and include public, private and parochial high schools across northern New Jersey.
  
  High school football boasts a large local fan base of parents, coaches and students. With so many games happening across the area, it's not always possible to get to the field or keep up with the scores.
  
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• Dept of HHS Implements Texting Program
  The Department of Health and Human Services will use its massive stores of health information to develop wellness and prevention campaigns using text messaging to target specific populations.
  
  The programs are modeled, in part, after the Text4Baby public health campaign of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. Under Text4Baby, pregnant women and new mothers sign up for the service by texting BABY to 511411, and receive pertinent free text messages. As of June 2011, about 185,000 women had enrolled in Text4Baby and received 15 million texts.
  
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• Maryland Joins States with Texting Ban
  As of last Saturday, it is now illegal for the driver of a vehicle to engage in any sort of text messaging while behind the wheel in the State of Maryland.
  
  This includes checking and reading text messages while at a stop light or while the vehicle is stopped for any reason.
• Texting is Preferred
  If you own a cellphone ? 83% of American adults do ? chances are that you send and receive text messages. And if you are a teenager, you may prefer texting to talking.
  
  That is according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center.
  
  Among cellphone owners, 73% of them text. And the younger the user, the more they text, the study found.
  
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• Texting Leveling Off
  Pew Internet found American cell phone owners sent an average of 41.5 text messages per day last spring and 73 percent of Americans with a cell phone used the texting function. Thats a big jump from 2009, when we sent an average of 29.7 texts daily, but only a tiny increase over the 39.1 sent last year.
  
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• Text Messaging Brawls
  Have you ever got into a text message fight? You furiously type into your phone, thumbs punctuating each letter as your third eye wrinkles with rage. But then you have to wait for whomever you are fighting with to reply with their text venom. Although you don't want to lose the momentum of your anger, it is boring just staring at your phone waiting to continue your wrath.
  
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• Texting Fresh Fruit
  Here is how the marketplace works: A buyer texts their inventory (say, 20 apples) to a list of buyers. A nearby buyer types list and gets a list of everything being sold in the area. The service uses GPS to locate buyers and sellers, so nearby produce is highlighted. When a buyer is ready to make a purchase, the seller receives a text with the buyers phone number and deletes their items from the inventory list.
• Could Text Messaging Parenting Tips Help Reduce Violent Crime?
  Texting parenting tips that educate new parents on the hows and "whys of bonding with infants and toddlers will reach those parents that may lack access to this critical information through other resources.
  
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• India Uses SMS for Health Reminders
  For the first time in the northeast an innovative project was launched to make new mothers more aware of health and hygiene through SMS alerts by the health department on Tuesday.
  
  The project - Mother and Child Tracking System ( MCTS) - which is a part of the National Rural Health Mission, is directed towards welfare of mothers in Kumarghat in North Tripur district.
  
  Under the system, a new mother as well as the expecting ones will receive health reminders on their mobile phones for regular checkups.
  
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• Predicted SMS Market Growth
  Messaging still dominates non-voice mobile revenues worldwide, with the global messaging market worth $179.2bn in 2010, according to a report by Portio Research.
  
  The fifth edition of the Mobile Messaging Futures 2011-2015 report predicts that the market will pass $200bn in 2011, and break $300bn in 2014 and $334.7bn by the end of 2015.
  
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• AT & T Text Spam Option
  A lot of text spam comes in the form of e-mail sent to your phones text-message e-mail address (yes, it has one: yourmobilenumber@txt.att.net). Thus, check the boxes for Block all text messages sent to you as email and Block all multimedia messages sent to you as email. Then click Submit.
  
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• Text Messaging Helping in Clinical Trials
  More than 30% of patients drop out of clinical research studies, costing the pharmaceutical industry hundreds of millions of dollars per year.  The problem is compounded by the fact that 40% of patients who remain in the studies are non-compliant with the protocol visit schedule, resulting in additional costs and delays.  These problems can be avoided if sponsors accelerate adoption of currently available texting solutions used to remind patients of their upcoming visits.
  
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• Texting Helps Lose Weight
  Teens love text messages--and those texts may help them lose weight, if they are done right. A study tested out various types of weight management-themed text messages on overweight teens to see what they liked, finding that they favored positive messages but disliked thoughtful questions.
  
  Overweight and obese teens can be a tough crowd when it comes to weight-loss interventions--many have a tough time adopting more healthful diet and exercise routines. Researchers from the University of Michigan thought tailored text messages might be a good way to help teens adopt lifestyle changes, since texts have been successful in helping others drop bad habits.
  
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• Do Not Call List for Texting
  Telemarketers cannot talk to Wisconsinites who are on the state?s do-not-call list. And a GOP lawmaker says those sellers should not be sending text messages, either.
  
  Senate Republican Van Wangaard of Racine is drafting a bill to include text messages in the no-call law. He says many cell phone customers have to pay for those messages ? and they should not be paying for unwanted sales pitches. Wangaard says his bill would bring the law into the 21st century.
  
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• Tracking Pets with a Mobile Signal
  Qualcomm, which launches few consumer products, later this month will launch a pet-tracking service built using proprietary technology from its communications business.
  
  Snaptracs, a subsidiary within Qualcomm, will launch Tagg, a pet-tracking system with GPS and wireless communication capabilities for owners to immediately track lost dogs or cats. The system includes a purpose-built tracking device that looks like a watch and clips on to existing pet collars.
  
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• Slexting
  Slexting ? meaning - The Definition of Slexting....is the combination of sleeping and texting. When one is sleeping and receives a text message and replies without being fully awake. Therefore the Next morning one will not remember Slexting nor have any idea what the Slext said. (via the UrbanDictionary)
• FEMA App
  FEMA announces that they have gone mobile (again) as Hurricane Irene threatens the East Coast and would like to share two new ways to get information about how to prepare for and recover from hurricanes and other disasters on your mobile devices:
  
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• Text Messaging and Privacy
  Text messaging may help quiet the hum of public cellphone conversations but it may be just as vulnerable to eavesdropping.
  
  Canadas privacy commissioner says Canadians are not doing enough to protect their mobile communication devices, such as cellphones and tablet computers.
  
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• Carriers Struggling with Free Text Messaging
  Remember the days of expensive and limiting data plans? When calling out of state cost big bucks? And forget about international calls, who had that kind of money? Oh, how things have changed?
  
  Popular programs like Skype allows for free face-to-face calls all over the world, while cell phones have conquered national long-distance fees. The new frontier: Text messaging fees.
  
  For now, text data plans mean customers can text their thumbs to the bone for one fixed monthly cost, while for others a $10 for 1,000 texts per month plan will do just fine. Alas, even that cost is destined to disappear. Free is the operative word, and companies are lining up to provide you with their free and unlimited texting services. The days of texting plans are numbered.
  
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• Innovative Use for SMS in India
  Pharma companies in the country may be asked to install an SMS-activated system to counter fake drugs in the market. Companies will need to print a unique number on medicine strips which the buyers can SMS to the customer care for verification.
  
  Recommendations of a task force report expected on Friday will make it mandatory for drug-manufacturing companies to have the software that will respond to text messages from consumers. Unique ID and bar-coding are the other options before the task force and will be weighed against SMS alerts, task force chairman HG Koshia told ET.
  
  complete article
• Traditional Mail on the Decline
  In the era of high speed communication where a mobile phone message gets delivered to its recipient within seconds, snail mail - like postcards and inland letters - is losing out on its appeal, according to data available with the communications ministry.
  
  complete article
• The Death of the Text Message
  Interesting commentary on the Death of the Text Message:
  
  The smartphone boom is a mixed blessing for wireless companies. While the devices have boosted data plan sales considerably, they are threatening to kill another revenue stream dead in its tracks: text messaging.
  
  Dozens of smartphone applications offer free text messaging services, which allow wireless customers to send and receive texts by piggybacking on their existing data plans.
  
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  I think more and more companies are going to take control of their own messaging, rather than relying on a third party, which bodes well for PageGate.
• Monitoring Communications
  A U.S. military official says Washington will provide Iraqi authorities with technology to monitor and record phone calls and phone-text messages with the aim of preventing terrorist attacks, RFE-RLs Radio Free Iraq reports.
  
  Although the technology is important in fighting against frequent terror attacks in Iraq, several politicians are concerned the equipment could be used to monitor the phone calls and messages of Iraqi politicians for political reasons. They are also worried by the fact that the technology will be controlled by the Interior Ministry.
  
  complete article
• AT&T Simplifying Texting Plans
  AT&T confirmed today that it will slim down its text-messaging service plans, offering customers either unlimited messages for a flat monthly fee, or a pay-per-text service.
  
  The company is eliminating its middle-of-the-road option, a plan that allots customers 1,000 text messages for $10 monthly.
  
  AT&T Simplifying Texting Plans
• Saved By the Cell Phone!
  A new study that says 13 percent of all mobile phone users fake talking or being busy on their phones to avoid having to interact with people around them isn't such big news. I assumed the number was much higher.
  
  Save By Cell Phones
• Hackers Can Steal Cars Via Text
  A couple of security researchers from iSEC Partners demonstrated at the ongoing Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas how to unlock a car via merely a text message.
  
  The researchers used a Subaru Outback to showcase their skills, and they not only managed to unlock the car, but also started the engine, all remotely.
  
  complete article
• Texting vs Creative Writing
  As much as you may like or dislike students texting, it?s here to stay and even being used more and more by adults. According to a survey of 700 students aged 12 to 17 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 85 percent of the responders reported using a form of electronic communication.  Sixty-four percent admitted using a shorthand native to texting.
  
  complete article
• Unlocking Cars with Cell Phones
  Now seeing the cars of these people being hacked may no longer be a remote possibility: two security researches have found a way to hack into mobile apps used for unlocking car doors and starting their engines.
  
  The hackers, Don Bailey and Mathew Solnik, will deliver their findings next week at the Black Hat USA conference.
  
  complete article
• Cell Phones are Changing Strategies
  This past Friday, sixteen year old Julie Bremnes was stuck on the tiny island of Utoya, surrounded by freezing cold water, being stalked by a mad man.  The teenager hid in the rocks on the beach for nearly two hours, listening to her friends and fellow camp goers being shot at. Terrified that at any second she and her friends would be found and killed.
  
  And, thanks to her cellphone, she was able to be in constant contact with her mother the entire time.
  
  complete article
• Texting While Driving Ban Not Working
  Massachusetts drivers are still sending and reading text messages, despite a statewide ban on texting behind the wheel.
  
  Between the Sept. 30 start of the ban and the end of May, 733 citations for sending texts - about 3 per day - have been issued by police.
  
  complete article
• Texting a New Language
  It is now too common to send or receive a message like; Sir plz lemmi knw wthr u rcvd d file or nt? Or Do not 4get d mtg 2moro @the office.
  
  Where texting has becoming acceptable way of communication, text messages like the ones above are so littered with lingo that they may be difficult to comprehend, sometimes leading to misinformation.
  
  These types of texts are usually from personal friends and family, but now becoming a common place among workplace colleagues and superiors.
  
  complete article
• CrimeReports Tips
  Cache Valley law enforcement agencies are using a new software tool that allows people to share crime tips anonymously using a cellphone or Internet connection.
  
  TipSoft - the Draper-based CrimeReports.coms newest development - allows users to send encrypted crime information to local police departments from the privacy of their home or from their cellphone.
  
  complete article
• Boston Police Encourage Texting Tips
  Hoping to crack a recent rash of unsolved homicides, the Boston Police Department is launching a new ad campaign, blanketing the city with brochures and transit posters to advertise and promote its anonymous text message tip line.
• Text Messaging Basics
  Sending a text message from your cell phone is one of the quickest and less intrusive ways of getting in touch with someone, but it is not a skill that everyone is born with. Here are steps for helping those new to text messaging.
  
  complete article
• SmartPhones Impacting Vision
  A new study has suggested that smart phone users reading text messages and internet pages hold their devices at a closer distance than they would for printed text?which may have important implications for prescribing vision correction.
  
  According to the study by Mark Rosenfield and colleagues of SUNY State College of Optometry, New York, optometrists should pay attention to the working distance at which patients hold their smart phones and perform appropriate testing at those distances.
  
  complete article
• Bieber Discourages Texting and Driving
  Justin Bieber is urging his young fans not to text and drive in a hard-hitting new campaign.
  
  The singer is promoting responsible text messaging through a new app which disables a drivers ability to text, email and use all keyboard functions if driving over 16kmh.
  
  complete article
• T-Mobile Trivia
  T-Mobile is making a free trivia game available to all of its customers that it hopes will make the operators service stickier in an age of cutthroat competition. The SMS-based game is available to every T-Mobile customer, from smartphone users to talk-and-text phone owners, across its prepaid and postpaid, and it promises the bonus of a big payoff?$4000 daily cash prizes and a weekly prize of an Audi Q5.
  
  complete article
• Army Uses Wireless Network
  If you have a smartphone, chances are you know how to send a text message, read an email or go online. And now the Army is testing a new way to wirelessly give and receive orders through a network thats being evaluated at the White Sands Army Missile Range. This system will allow Army commanders can set up a battle plan and simply e-mail or text orders to units in the field right on to their smartphones. Army officials tell KFOX 14 that this system has been in the works for the last year.
  
  complete article
• Police and Fire Departments Now Text, Tweet, Post
  Public safety agencies use social media tools to disperse latest news, information to subscribers.
  
  If you want the latest police and fire information in your community, local departments are making it easy through their increasing use of social media.
  
  complete article
• SMS and Texting Resources
  We have set up a number of support resources up to assist customers with NotePage Software. In addition to contact sensitive help, in the software itself NotePage has added a number of support resources. NotePage, Inc prides itself on top notch customer service and support, these resources will assist you with using NotePager Pro and PageGate
  
  SMS and Text Messaging Video Tutorials - a collection of video tutorials that explain specific features and general setup of NotePager Pro and PageGate
  
  NotePage Forum - interactive forum where you can post question and answers about sending text messages.
  
  Educational Articles about Messaging - large collection of educational articles about sending text and SMS messages.
  
  Text Messaging Knowledgebase - common questions and answers about NotePage software.
  
  NotePage Support - variety of different NotePage support resources
• Find the Nearest Metro in India by SMS
  Quick information on the nearest Metro station will be just an SMS away. Those stuck in a spot with no Metro connectivity, and who wish to reach the nearest station, can rely on Metro Connect, an information facility being developed by BMS Colleges computer science engineering students, and supported by IBM.
  
  additional details
• How can I avoid going over the data limits on my AT&T iPhone?
  Good news. Both AT&T and Verizon will send you text messages when you near the data limit. Simply access your online account and make sure these are turned on. You can also check your limits anytime.
  
  Additional Details
• ER Texting
  A new service called ER Texting lets you send a text message to 4ER411 and get a report on the expected wait times at nearby emergency rooms.
  
  You get to see a doctor faster and the hospitals get to advertise their services. The increased transparency could even make hospitals compete on having shorter waiting times. It also helps the hospitals manage their load balancing.
  
  The service currently has hospitals signed up in Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
  
  complete article
• Miss Delaware Takes on Texting
  Maria Cahill used to send text messages and apply her makeup while driving.
  
  But all that changed about six months before she was crowned Miss Delaware 2011 in June.
  
  A friend, 21-year-old Meghan Green, died one semester before she was about to graduate from college. Green was in a coma for a little more than a week after a serious vehicle crash.
  
  Green was texting while driving, Cahill said.
  
  complete article
• Blood Donation and Texting in India
  Now, a text message on the mobile phone is all that a blood bank needs to do to find a donor. At the same time, voluntary donors too can register themselves using the same service.
  
  Blood Donations via SMS
• Text Messaging Knowledgebase
  Learn the latest about Text Messaging. Questions asked and answered about SMS and text messaging.
• SMS in Crisis
  SMS is the perfect emergency communications channel, right? People always have their phones with them, especially in an emergency; you can easily send one message to a number of people, and you can text when you can not talk.
  
  SMS in Crisis
• Google Sued For Group-Texting Service
  Google and its recently acquired social apps company Slide have been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly sending SMS messages without first obtaining recipients' consent.
  
  In court papers filed late last week, Florida resident Bret Lusskin, Jr. alleges that he received more than 105 SMS messages on one day in April through Disco.com -- a group-texting platform developed by Slide that allows people to send texts to 99 group members at once. When one recipient replies, the response is sent to everyone in the group.
  
  Google Sued over Texts
• SMS when Child is on School Bus
  School buses in India will soon be equipped with GPS devices, which will come equipped with three state-of-the-art features that will enable parents to keep tabs on the whereabouts of their children once they have stepped out of home for school.
• Text Messaging for Outlook
  Bulletin.net Inc has announced it can now provide Microsoft Outlook users in the USA with an individual phone number for sending and receiving text messages. Microsoft built a text message option into Outlook 2007 and 2010 and has approved Bulletin.net as a service provider for transmitting messages. Bulletin customers can now select a regular phone number exclusive to them, which is then used to deliver their Outlook text messages to mobile phones worldwide. Text messages can also now be received on the number and are delivered into their Outlook email. Bulletin?s pricing starts at $5 per month for an individual number and text messages from 2 cents each.
• Last Chance to Register for PageGate Question and Answer Webinar
  Now that we have covered a lot of basic information, this session will be dedicated entirely to the questions you have submitted. This will be a freeform session where you, the participant, can guide the discussion.
  
  Session 4 PageGate Questions and Anwers  - June 8, 2011 at 12:00 EST
  
• FEMA Using PageGate
  The Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Federal Emergency Management Agency used PageGate to notify the media and public safety groups that they have opened Disaster Recovery Centers in Jefferson and Hardin Counties.
  
  FEMA Uses PageGate
• India Text Messaging Addiction
  Widespread availability of cheap unlimited text message plans has made the service preferred mode of communication for youngsters in India and its excessive use is leading to health problems among them, says a study conducted by industry body Assocham.
  
  The study has found that text messaging has become preferred mode of communication for majority of youngsters in India. It has has surpassed rest of the forms of daily interaction amongst youngsters like face-to-face conversations, voice calling, etc.
  
  Apparently, 60 per cent of youngsters in India send and receive over 125 text messages daily to interact with their peer group, the study says.
  
  Text messaging Addiction
• Talking vs Texting
  OMG, LOL, BRB! Our lives change with new technology and terms such as these used in texting. The ability to text brings us convenience, but also problems to tackle.
  
  How much effective communication is lost when we text? Most of it.
  
  According to research, 93 percent of effective communication is nonverbal. 55 percent is expressed by body language and 38 percent by tone, which leaves only 7 percent for the written word. When you text, you are leaving to chance how that text is perceived and read by the receiver.
  
  Talking vs Texting
• Interfaces for PageGate
  If you missed the Webinar on PageGate Interfaces check out the following PageGate Interface Video Tutorial
• Emergency Alerts via Text
  The system will send out alerts issued by the president as well as for emergencies and Amber Alerts for missing children. Only users within the affected areas will receive the alerts, and subscribers can opt out of all alerts except those sent by the president. The alerts will be routed through local cell towers, and the alerts will be accompanied by a unique signal and vibration.
  
  complete article
  
  more on PLAN
• What Are the Interfaces for PageGate - Webinar
  What are the Interfaces? - May 25, 2011
  
  In this session, we will be doing an overview of what each of the different Interfaces for PageGate are and covering the basics of how they work. This session will provide key information on how PageGate can seamlessly integrate with other applications and alarm systems.
  
  What are the Interfaces - Get Details and Sign-Up
• Sexting and the Military
  It is a trend that is no longer confined to the walls of high schools and cell phone-toting teens. Sexting is creeping into the world of the United States military.
  
  They are known as the few and the proud, but now the Marine Corps is getting a new label: sexters. According to the May 16 edition of the Marine Corps Times, there has been a sharp increase in the exchange of sexually explicit messages and photos among Marines.
  
  It's a topic that can be especially delicate for military couples who often spend months apart during deployments.
  
  Sexting and the Military
• Technology and Its Impact on Laws
  Being charged with accessing child pornography can lead to many questions for potential defendants. These are crimes that receive a lot of attention in the media, and those accused will have a long fight in front of them to clear their names. While child pornography laws have been in place for many years, the laws as written may not provide the goals that lawmakers intended. As technology changes, the law will need to adapt to be able to address all the issues that may arise.
  
  There are both federal and state laws in place regarding child pornography. Federal laws against child pornography were created in an effort to prevent children from being exploited.
  
  Technology and Its Impact on Laws
• Sexting a New Adult Activity
  In 2009, the Pew Center for Internet and American Life published survey findings that 4 percent of adolescents 12 to 17 years old had sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images or videos of themselves to someone else via text message.
  
  That sparked a sexting panic over the unsettling implications of young people engaging in this type of illicit interaction, as well as legal issues involving the cell phone-transmitted photos that could be deemed child pornography.
  
  Consequently, much of the media attention to sexting has focused solely on adolescent behavior, yet the act of sexting is not limited to teens.
• Train Updates via Text Message
  For more than a year, NJ Transit customers with smart phones have been able to enter their station into the DepartureVision feature on njtransit.com and instantly find out when the next train will arrive.
  
  Now there?s help for customers with phones that are not web-enabled.
  
  NJ Transit has entered a partnership with CooCoo of Long Island to provide real-time train schedule information through text messaging.
  
  Train Updates via Texts
• Group Text Messaging Saves Time and Money
  When Leah Arnold of St. Charles recently became the manager of a large group of younger employees, one of her first orders of business was to find a convenient and effective way to communicate with her new team. Her answer? Group text messages.
  
  complete article
  
  Keep in mind you can use NotePages Software to send group messages!
• Send Yourself Text-Message Reminders
  Oh Do Not Forget is a service that allows you to schedule and send messages to your own cell phone.
• Microsoft Buying Skype
  Microsoft is close to finalizing a deal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion!
• Withdraw Cash with Cell Phones
  Cellphones have long ceased to be a simple means of communication, and banks are introducing products that allow you to withdraw cash from ATMs using your cellphone without the need for a bank card or even a bank account in some cases.
  
  First National Bank is the second bank to launch a product (Cash Withdrawal) that allows you to withdraw cash from your bank account while your bank card stays safely in your wallet or at home.
  
  complete article
• Israel to Use Text Alerts
  Citizens of Israel will receive a text message notifying them of an alarm in their area as part of a new Home Front Command drill to take place throughout the country in a number of weeks.
  
  In honor of the annual drill, Turning Point 5, the command will try out a new technology unlike that used to send a regular SMS. In order to send the text, the system overrides cellular networks and delivers a message with a different sound.
  
  complete article
• Textalyzer Stops You From Sending Drunk Text Messages
  Textalyzer utilizes 4 engaging and challenging games to analyze your state of mind. App users create their Forbidden List and use Textalyzer as a guardian of their texting behavior. If you can succeed in winning the games then you should be clear-headed enough to send out a coherent text. You can also leave reminders to stop yourself from sending out text messages so you won?t regret your actions later.
• College Recruiting Goes to Texting
  Welcome to college recruiting in the instant-information age, where the days of receiving a large envelope full of brochures, catalogs and application forms from colleges are long gone.
  
  Nowadays, admissions counselors are only a text message away.
  
  College Recruiting Texting
• Tajik Divorce Text Banned Due to Growing Number of Divorced Muslim Women
  The Tajik divorce by text is being banned by Tajikistans religious authorities. There is a growing number of women being divorced via the Tajik divorce text which enables Muslim men to just send a text to their wives with the words Taloq taloq taloq, which means divorce, divorce, divorce.
  
  complete article
• Question and Answer Websites
  Question and answer websites have popped up all over the Internet. These interactive sites are designed to connect individuals, and help them get answers to questions. We have compiled a list of some of the more popular Question & Answers websites...
  
  Question and Answer Websites
• What is SMS Webinar?
  Session 1: Why would I need to send SMS? - April 27, 2011
  In this session, we'll go over the different reasons that SMS can add extra efficiency to almost any business model and provide examples of different implementations of SMS messaging with a healthy amount of time for Q&A at the end of the session.
  
  Session 1 - April 27, 2011 at 12:00 EST
  Sign-Up send email to webinar@notepage.com include date - webinar title and we will send you directions to join the webinar.
  
  More on SMS Webinars
• SMS to Curb Credit Card Fraud
  Banks will issue transaction alerts via short messaging service by Jan 1, 2012 in a bid to curb credit card fraud.
  
  An statement from Bank Negara Malaysia said card holders could respond to the SMS after a transaction was performed.
  
  SMS to Curb Credit Card Fraud
• Texting 911
  Tennyson said that the Oregon Emergency Management committee is working on costs related to replacing the current network with a new system able to send and receive information via text message. At the same time, efforts are under way to work with cell phone companies to be sure that each carrier?s technology matches that of the network.
  
  complete article
• SMS Payments Big In Other Countries
  In Kenya, where a 4-year-old business called M-Pesa lets you send and receive cash through your cellphone, it is proved so popular ? replacing the banks in ordinary citizens lives ? that a quarter of the entire Kenyan GDP now passes through it. Thats behavior change on a massive scale.
  
  complete article
• Holden Police Launch Text Messaging Tip Service to Crime Fighting
  For the first time, mobile phone users across Holden now have the ability to provide anonymous crime fighting tips through the power of anonymous text messaging and WebTips. Holden Police and CrimeReports, the industry leader in law enforcement tip management software and web applications, have joined together to provide this service which allows citizens to send anonymous tips by sending a text message from a mobile phone or online.
  
• Latest NotePage News
  Hi ,
  Welcome to NotePage news. If preferred this newsletter can also be viewed online at: http://www.notepage.net/newsletter-03-30-11.htm
  
  PageGate
  The latest release version of PageGate is 5.0.93, make sure you have the current release.
  
  PRTG Integration
  How Can I send SMS Text Messages in PRTG? This documentation from Paessler explains how to use NotePage's software with PRTG. http://www.paessler.com/knowledgebase/en/topic/393-how-can-i-send-sms-text-message-notifications-via-a-modem-or-a-mobile-phone-with-prtg
  
  Orion Integration
  Are you using Solar Winds Orion in conjunction wih NotePage's software? This forum post will walk you through the setup.
  http://www.notepage.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11942
  
  PageGate Custom Training Webinars
  Interested in one on one training for PageGate? Customized webinars are available for training staff $100.00 for .5 hour webinar or $150.00 for a 1.0 hour webinar. You can ask questions, have us train your staff, this is your opportunity to get training on the specific items you want. If you prefer customized training email webinar@notepage.com with contact details and we'll schedule your training session.
  
  Group Webinar
  Sign-up for FREE PageGate webinars. Not interested in personalized training? Join one of our group training webinars, here is the schedule:
  
  Session 1 - April 27, 2011 at 12:00 EST Why would I need to send SMS?
  In this session, we'll go over the different reasons that SMS can add extra efficiency to almost any business model and provide examples of different implementations of SMS messaging with a healthy amount of time for Q&A at the end of the session.
  
  Sign-up for session 1 by emailing webinar@notepage.com with the name/date of the webinar.
  
  Session 2: - May 11, 2011 at 12:00 EST What is PageGate?
  In this session, we'll be going over the basics of how to use PageGate. We will cover how to install PageGate and configure it to send a basic page to a cel phone, pager, or email address.
  
  Sign-up for session 2 by emailing webinar@notepage.com with the name/date of the webinar.
  
  Session 3: - May 25, 2011 at 12:00 EST What are the PageGate Interfaces?
  In this session, we'll be doing an overview of what each of the different Interfaces for PageGate are and covering the basics of how they work. This session will provide key information on how PageGate can seamlessly integrate with other applications and alarm systems.
  
  Sign-up for session 3 by emailing webinar@notepage.com with the name/date of the webinar.
  
  Session 4: - June 8, 2011 at 12:00 EST PageGate Q&A
  Now that we've covered a lot of basic information, this session will be dedicated entirely to the questions you've submitted. This will be a freeform session where you, the participant, can guide the discussion.
  
  Sign-up for session 4 by emailing webinar@notepage.com with the name/date of the webinar.
  Additional details on free PageGate Webinars!
  
  
  SMS Education Center
  Are you an independent learner? You can find SMS tips and tricks in the NotePage learning center.
  http://www.notepage.net/learning-center/notepage-learning-center.htm
  
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• Premium Text Messaging Complaints
  People are finding charges on their mobile phone bills that they say were not authorized, including mystery text services that appear out of nowhere and charge for content that people believed was free.
  
  I was the victim of a scam recently in which $9.99 was charged to my cellular account for so-called inspiration text messages for which I definitely did not sign up. The phone, a BlackBerry on Sprint, is a second phone kept around for emergencies only and had not been used for about a month before the text messages were noticed.
  
  I halted the service by texting STOP and called the company listed as the provider, InspiraCell, to find out why they had signed me up for this inane service. I could not get through. I next called Sprint to ask them about it. A customer support representative put a block on the service, removed text message service entirely from the phone and told me I would be able to get the charge removed from my bill when the statement came, which I was. However, he was not able to tell me how the charge got authorized for my account.
  
  complete article
  
• Crime Stoppers Using Text Tips
  Officials involved with Winnebago CountyWide Crime Stoppers say it won't take long before texting tips surpass telephone tips to the anonymous crime reporting line that pays cash upon convictions.
  
  The local Crime Stoppers, one of more than 600 crime tip lines nationwide, dropped its toll-free 800 line effective March 1 and implemented a new telephone number and software to accept text messages.
  
  Tips can now be called in to (920) 231-TIPS or 8477, while texts should be sent to CRIMES or 274637 with IGOTYA and the tip entered into the message field.
  
  complete article
• Free PageGate Webinars
  Not interested in personalized training? Join one of our group training webinars, join the free webinars for PageGate.
• Could Being Able to Text 911 Save Lives?
  When a gunman was prowling the halls of Virginia Tech University on April 16, 2007, on a shooting rampage that left 33 people dead, dozens of students and staff sent texts to 911 trying to get help.
  
  But those texts were never received, because the local 911 center -- like most across the country, including ones in major cities -- could only handle basic phone calls.
  
  complete article
• Texting Stamps
  Two European countries are now offering an alternative to the ubiquitous postage stamp: sending the post office a text message.
  
  Sweden and Denmark are set to roll out a new postal service whereby customers can pay for postage using text-messaging services on their cellphones.
  
  Customers can simply send a text message to the post office and in a few seconds an automated reply will arrive with a special code. Write the code on the envelope where a stamp would normally go and you are done.
  
  complete article
• SMS Attacks
  The so-called SMS of death attacks were unveiled late last year at a hacker conference in Berlin. They use special binary characters and overflowed headers to temporarily crash most older models made by manufacturers including Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, and Micromax. Carrier networks often aggravate the attacks by bombarding the target with the same malicious message, making them an inexpensive way to take a phone completely offline.
  
  complete article
• Text Abbreviations and Emoticons
  OMG! The exclamatory online abbreviation has won the approval of the Oxford English Dictionary.
  
  The term - short for Oh my God - is one of dozens of new entries in the authoritative reference books  latest online update and emoticons.
  
• Waiving Texting Fees for Donations
  Following Verizon Wireless announcement of waived text messaging fees for donations to Japan, Sprint has announced that it will also waive text messaging fees for such purposes. Customers can send messages to particular numbers to donate $10 to the relief efforts.
  
  complete article
• Taliban Text Messages
  One of the Talibans most effective tools to persuade Afghans not to work with the U.S. or its allies is the night letter ? a note warning people they?ll be targeted for death unless they change their infidel-loving ways. But thats too analog. These days, the Taliban is mass texting gruesome videos to Afghans cellphones to spread the same message.
  
  complete article
• Mobile Stats
  Mobile phone subscription is estimated to be at 5.3 billion, more than 90 per cent of the worlds population, and 6.1 trillion text messages have been sent in three years.
  
  complete article
• Non Profit Donations via Text Message
  American Red Cross: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10
  
  International Medical Corps: Text MED to 80888 to donate $10
  
  Save the Children: Text JAPAN or TSUNAMI to 20222 to donate $10
  
  Mercy Corps: Text MERCY to 25283 to donate $10
  
  Salvation Army: Text JAPAN or QUAKE to 80888 to donate $10
  
  ADRA Relief: Text SUPPORT to 85944 to donate $10
  
  World Vision: Text 4JAPAN or 4TSUNAMI to 20222 to donate $10
  
• Donating Via Text
  In the last couple of years, the practice of charity in the face of disaster has changed. Instead of giving online or making a phone call, people - especially the more wired digital generation - are giving via text. It is simple: Send a text to a specific number and you automatically give a set donation amount, usually $10, to an organization. Since last Friday, the American Red Cross has received nearly $1.6 million in text donations for Japan. But there are downsides to text donations that you should think about carefully before you hit SEND.
  
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• Editorial on Cost of Text Messages
  Text messages are expensive. Most carriers charge customers 20 cents for every text they send. But the tiny messages use up only a fraction of a penny's worth of bandwidth. Why do networks charge so much for something that costs so little?
  
  Editorial on Text Messages Through Carriers
• Text Messaging Fraud
  Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged 24 defendants - including Jason Hope, the chief executive officer of Arizona-based Eye Level Holdings - with perpetuating a text messaging scheme that led to millions of dollars in unauthorized mobile phone charges.
  
  According to state investigators, the defendants used illicit websites to bait mobile phone customers into submitting their wireless numbers online.
  
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• Traffic Via SMS
  After receiving an overwhelming response to its Facebook page, the Pune Traffic Police will now have a website and SMS service dedicated to monitoring traffic bottlenecks and helping commuters plan routes to avoid jams. The service will be available from next week and free SMSes can be received after one joins the SMS group.
  
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• Verizon Cracking Down on SMS
  Verizon Wireless is cracking down on SMS text message fraud and has filed a lawsuit in a bid to halt the lucrative scam.
  
  Verizon this week filed a suit in federal district court in Phoenix in its crusade against an ongoing scheme that uses premium SMS, or text message, campaigns to defraud the carrier and its customers.
  
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• Text Messaging To Stop Smoking
  A pair of related studies on smoking cessation have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness of text-messaging to measure and intervene in those urges.
  
  Both projects by scientists at the University of Oregon and other institutions used the same group of test subjects ? 27 heavy smokers recruited from the American Lung Associations Freedom From Smoking program in Los Angeles.
  
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• Oxford County Using PageGate
  The EMA also has a new system that allows it to send text messages to firefighters and other responders who are out of radio range but have cell phones, Parker said. The system, called PageGate, costs less than giving pagers to every volunteer firefighter.
  
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• Steps To Secure Your Smartphone Against Data Theft
  Once your phone is infected, a slave bot program will be installed in the base operating system, beneath the application layer that most users are familiar with. From there these bots can monitor and modify all data sent to and from the phone before you do, allowing the botmaster to command and control your phone without your knowledge.
  
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• Insult via Text Lead to Murder
  Text messaging can be dangerous, many have said, but they probably will not thinking along these lines, but perhaps texting while driving. In this case, a U.K. man stabbed his friend to death after the word mutter was auto-corrected by his cell phone to read nutter in a text message, and that led to him being found guilty of manslaughter on Monday, Feb. 14.
  
  Nutter is, of course, slang for a mentally ill person.
  
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• Emergency SMS Messages
  The UKs telecoms regulator Ofcom has proposed a voluntary trial, enabling people to send a text message to the UKs emergency services which should be made mandatory in the country.
  
  The proposal forms a part of a wider consultation on changes to Ofcom?s regulations that need to reflect new European law that comes into effect on 25 May, 2011.
  
  As per the new European regulations, access to the Emergency services for disabled people must be as close to that delivered to other consumers as the technology will allow. While the emergency text scheme does have limitations, such as taking longer to converse by text than by phone, it offers greater equivalence than current alternatives.
  
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• Location Based SMS
  On Monday, AT&T will announce the company?s first location-based marketing service through which companies can send text messages to users who choose to receive special offers.
  
  The service, called ShopAlerts by AT&T, will send users messages from brand partners including Hewlett-Packard, Kmart, JetBlue and S. C. Johnson. The company is working with Placecast, which supplies a technology known as geo-fencing that allows retailers to send messages to users in a defined geographic area.
  
  AT&T is the first mobile carrier to use such a service in the United States. The service will be available for users in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco.
  
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• In India SMS Bills for Electricity
  In a move to keep electricity consumers posted about their monthly bills and due date of payment, the power discom will start sending SMS alerts soon.
  
• SMS About Vaccines
  Parents of new born babies in Kerala will henceforth get SMSes on their cell phones about vaccination details for babies.
• How to Submit Podcast to iTunes Music Store
  Here are some helpful tips regarding how to get your podcasts listed in the iTunes Music Store...
  
  iTunes Compatibility
  In order to have your podcast included in the iTunes Music Store, you must first add the iTunes extension to your RSS feed. This means that you will need to modify the RSS feed for your podcast or videocast so that it includes tags that are specific to iTunes.
  
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• Flood Alerts via SMS
  Singaporeans can look forward to receiving SMS alerts from PUB, the national water agency, warning them about heavy rain and any impending floods around the island by the middle of this year.
• SMS Spam
  The GSMA will recommend that operators join a program that allows mobile subscribers to report SMS spam using short codes in an effort to gather more data on a growing annoyance.
  
  The GSMA along with its partner Cloudmark, which makes messaging security software for operators, concluded a trial in December of an SMS spam reporting system that analyzed SMSes and aggregated reports of abuse.
• Arrest Due to Text Message
  Portsmouth Man Arrested After Allegedly Sending Harassing Text Messages.
  
  Justin Vars, 24, of 196 Riverside St., Portsmouth, turned himself in at the Portsmouth police station on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 8:15 a.m.
  
  Vars was wanted on an affidavit arrest warrant after allegedly sending harassing text messages to an ex-girlfriend.
  
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• Blocking Text While Driving
  Smart phone application developed in Hernando blocks text messaging while driving. The chime of an incoming text message can be tough for drivers to resist, even while barreling 70 mph down the interstate or navigating a crowded parking lot.
  
  So when a texting driver drifted into Gary Thomas' lane in Hernando County last spring and nearly ran him off the road, it became clear to him that distracted driving had to stop.
  
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• Alerts From Police Via Text Message
  Rahway residents can sign up to receive text message alerts from the Rahway Police Department using the free Nixle Community Information Service.
  
  The Rahway Police create and publish messages through the Nixle Community Information Service. Nixle will then deliver this information to you instantly by cell phone text message and/or email.
• Text4Baby
  Text4baby is a free service that delivers proven health advice via text messages to pregnant women and new mothers. The messages offer timely reminders on maintaining not just physical health, but emotional and mental well being, too.
• Solar Winds Orion and NotePage Software
  If you are using Solar Winds Orion in conjunction with NotePage software you can find details in our integration section.
• Text Regulations in India
  Are you fond of sending text messages via SMS? Well, sad to say that our friends from India will not really have a choice, because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India plans to regulate sending of SMS for everyone. Users will be restricted to 100 text messages per day.
• Fighting Crime with Text Messaging
  Ana Juarez uses her cell phone to send text messages to just about everyone she knows. In fact, the 20 something Juarez says she uses her cell phone to do more texting than speaking on the phone.
  
  Realizing text messages are a way of life, the Kern County Sheriff's department launched a new crime fighting method called TIP411.
  
  The program is an anonymous texting system that allows the public to provide confidential tips and information in non emergency cases.
  
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• For Coca-Cola, Text Messaging Is Top Mobile Priority
  SMS text messaging may seem old hat as a marketing tool compared to newer technologies like QR codes or augmented reality, but it should still form the base of mobile marketing programs, according to Tom Daley, group manager of strategy and planning at The Coca-Cola Company.
  
  If you want to reach every consumer on the planet, texting is the way to do that, said Daly, speaking Friday at MediaPost's Mobile Summit conference in Miami. To underscore his point, he noted that 2.3 trillion text messages were sent worldwide last year. And as one of the world's most pervasive consumer brands, Coca-Cola is always interested in reaching as wide an audience as possible.
  
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• Murder Suspect Left Text Message Trail
  On April 15, police secured phone records and text messages between the suspect and another man who lived at 105 Sheffield Ave. Between March 26 and March 29, the suspect sent and received several noteworthy messages.
  
  From the suspects phone: Yeah and the carpet is off entirely im just waitin for dis dude to come thru hes gunna let me use his wip but i aint tall em tho.
  
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• SMS Message Printers Keeping the Elderly Connected
  Technology has evolved to help us keep in touch electronically during our busy lives with the aid of the internet, social networking websites and of course with the mobile phone. However for most of aging generations, technology is less of a help to communicate as the speed of technological advancements has left the elderly by the way side. The elderly could take advantage of electronic communications but instead have not been able to keep up with the communication revolution.
  
  The elderly find new technologies difficult to learn and navigate, the new terminology sounds baffling and they may struggle to understand the concepts of messaging formats. Most old people wont go to lessons to learn how to use computers, or to teach themselves how to use mobile phone and prefer to stick to old fashioned methods of communication.
  
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• Mobile Choice Is A Personality Indicator
  Believe it or not, mobile phones say quite a lot about their owners, says a new study.
  
  The iPhone users thinks computers give them control over their lives. iPhone is the Alfa Romeo, Chalke said. SonyEricsson users like a full social life. LG users are women aged 14 to 24. Samsung users tend to be conservative dressers over 50.
  
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• List of Top Telecom Companies
  List of Top Telecom Services.
• Comcast Take Over
  The nations largest cable TV company, Comcast Corp., was set to take control of NBC Universal on Friday after the government shackled its behavior in the coming years to protect online video services such as Netflix and Hulu.
• Need to Learn About SMS
  Need to learn about SMS and text messaging check out the SMS Learning Center.
• Bomb Threat via Text
  A 17-year-old Columbia High School student is out on bond for allegedly threatening to blow up the school.
  
  Investigators say Kelsey Davis sent a bomb threat to a teacher via text message using an app that disguised the message with a long distance number.
  
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• Text Messaging Can Improve Spelling?
  Mobile phone text messaging can boost childrens spelling skills, according to new research.
  
  Text Messaging Improves Spelling
  
  
• Mobile Trends for 2011
  1. iPhone sales will rocket on the back of the Verizon deal
  
  I predict Apple will sell another 10-12 million iPhones in 2011 through its new deal to supply the US carrier Verizon with CDMA handsets. In 2010, Apple sold approximately 40-45 million iPhones.
  
  The top of the market for smartphone handsets will continue to be dominated by Apple worldwide.
  
  Mobile Trends for 2011
  
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• Rumble Organized Through Text
  A 15-year-old youth was shot dead during a street brawl between two rival groups in the Bronx organised through mobile phone text messages.
  
  The feuding groups had agreed to meet in the Williamsbridge area on Monday evening to settle a three-week dispute.
  
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• Text that Your Table is Ready
  Diner Connection sends text messages to restaurant patrons to let them know when their table is ready. This is a new startup.
• SMTP Settings to Send Text Messages
  While this protocol is popular, it was not designed for paging and as such it is not time sensitive, there can be delays in the reciept of the email depending on the routing (this does not have anything to do with the software but the design of the protocol). If your carrier supports SNPP or WCTP we would suggest using those protocols if time is an issue!
  
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• FCC Looking to Modernize 911 with Texting
  The Federal Communications Commission has opened a Notice of Inquiry, seeking public comment on how best to update the nation's 911 services. The FCC wants to expand 911 beyond the phone call for help, bringing advanced communication technologies to the decades old emergency program.
  
  According to the FCC, there are more than 650,000 911 calls made daily, and nearly 70% of those come from mobile devices. However, right now you can not text 9-1-1, said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, noting that during the Virginia Tech school shootings in 2007, some witnesses tried to text 911 but the texts simply never went through and the messages were not received by dispatchers.
  
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• Google Android Misdirecting Text Messages
  Google admitted this week that an issue with how the Android OS handles contacts and text messaging is causing phones to sometimes randomly send or misdirect SMS messages to the wrong users. The issue was first reported in late June of last year, but was not confirmed as a legitimate bug until now.
  
  Engineers have been able to recreate the issue, and now say that they believe the problems stem from two different issues with the Android OS. That said, the company stressed occurrences of the bug are rare, and a fix for the problem has been developed and would be released soon.
• Edmonton Transit schedules Just a Text Message Away
  Finding out when the next bus or LRT is scheduled to arrive just got a whole lot easier.
  
  And it is free.
  
  On Friday ETS unveiled a new pilot program. Through the use of a mobile phone, riders will gain access to bus schedule information by sending a text message to 31100, and almost instantly will get a return text with the requested information.
  
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• Texas Tech Sanctioned for Text Messages
  Texas Tech self-imposes NCAA sanctions for text messaging violations.
  
  Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has been gone for over a year but he is still getting in trouble.
  
  The school acknowledged in a press release Friday their self-imposed sanctions following the institution?s discovery of text messaging violations within the athletics program have been accepted by the NCAA?s Committee on Infractions.
  
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• 7 Trillion Messages
  Everyone and their mama is using SMS these days thus we were not surprised to learn that ABI Research predicts more than 7 trillion SMS messages will be sent worldwide in 2011, from nearly 4.2 billion mobile subscriptions.
  
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• New Years Text
  A kiss at midnight on New Years Eve is no longer enough for partygoers celebrating the turn of the year, with millions now sending text messages as well.
  
  A bump in the number of texts is expected to be sent on Friday night, with over 25% more than last year predicted by the mobile phone networks.
• SMS Attacks
  According to security experts, an SMS of death threatens to disable many current Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Micromax and LG mobiles.
  
  In recent months, the tendency has been for hackers and security testers to focus their efforts on smartphones such as the iPhone or Android-based phones. However, according to Mulliner, only 16 per cent of mobile phone users possess sophisticated handsets of this type. By contrast, worldwide, more than 4.6 billion people use simpler feature phones. These often have just a single processor, are unable to run external native applications, but are often able to run Java apps.
  
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• Pakistan Drivers to Recieve Text Messages
  The National Highway and Motorway Police in Pakistan is going to launch a Short Message Service (SMS) from the new year to create awareness about road safety in commuters and inform them about weather conditions.
  
  
• Texting Invented by a Man According to Kutcher
  Ashton Kutcher likes communicating via the written word.
  
  We know he Tweets to and about wife Demi Moore, even when she's sitting right next to him. And now he's exploring the notion in an essay for Harpers Bazaar. He maintains that it is safe to say text messaging was invented by a man.
  
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• Blackberry News Feed
  BlackBerry users, like everyone else, want to be kept up to date with the latest news, so having a decent RSS feed reader on the BlackBerry platform is a good thing. And we have just that with the BlackBerry News Feeds app.
• SMS and Conterfeit Medication
  In the heart of Africa, where humanity wallows in poverty and access to health care is a dream, the fight against counterfeit drugs has been daunting.
  
  But technology is coming to the rescue of millions of patients and consumers who face the risk of using counterfeit medicines each year.
  
  Consumers will soon be able to countercheck genuineness of the drugs they buy via short text messages a platform dubbed mPedigree.
  
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• SMS Spammer Fined
  The mastermind behind a SMS spam scheme that preyed on lonely hearts through dating websites has been fined $2 million.
  
  Former porn site operator Scott Gregory Phillips was behind a Brisbane-based business which employed backpackers to create fake profiles on dating websites and send unsolicited text messages to victims.
  
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• Charity Text Donations
  Four nonprofit groups are trying to attract $25 gifts through text messages this holiday season, an experiment that may increase the popularity of giving via mobile phones among charities.
  
  One of the biggest limitations of such giving, which burst onto the scene earlier this year when nonprofits raised tens of millions of dollars through text-to-give programs after the Haitian earthquake, has been the small size of the donations charities could solicit, just $5 or $10.
  
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• Text Messaging Tip Line at School
  The city of Brockton has launched a text messaging tip service in its public school system. On Wednesday, students in both middle and alternative high school were encouraged to begin using a text and web-based tip line to let school officials and police know about problems with bullying.  According to Jocelyn Meek, the communications officer for Brockton Public Schools, the system is an anonymous way for students to share their concerns on a variety of troubling issues.
  
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• Text Messaging Saves Lives
  A 17-year-old boy and his grandfather were rescued from the icy marsh in Dutchess County after their canoe overturned, thanks to his text messages.  
  
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• SMS Alerts in Egypt
  An Egyptian court overruled on Saturday a decision by the telecommunications authority to impose restrictions on media companies that send out news alerts to cell phones.
  
  The Administrative Court said the governments action were a restriction on freedom of expression and an unjustified intrusion on the SMS alert services. It is not yet clear if the government will try to appeal the verdict.
  
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• 911 Text Message
  The way we reach 911 in an emergency could soon change. The Federal communications Commission is looking at the possibility of being able to relay messages to emergency services via text messaging, and even streaming video.
  
• Digital Forensics and Texting
  In an effort to determine what Brett Favre did or did not text Jenn Sterger, the NFL is conducting high-tech forensic work to trace the electronic pathways and transmission of any photos or messages that might have been sent during communication between them, according to a source familiar with the situation.
  
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• Texting in Class
  College students say their professors would be shocked to know just how often they send text messages during lectures, and one researcher has offered a simple and stringent solution: Give failing grades to text-happy students.
  
  Nine in 10 students said in a Wilkes University study released this month that they have sent and received texts during class, although a much smaller portion of students believe educators should allow unlimited texting in class as long as it does not disturb others.
  
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• Ethics Code and Texting
  Texas Education Agency staff requested the change to the ethics code because they said they are receiving disciplinary case referrals in which teachers were found to have sent students thousands of text messages.  Sometimes the content of the messages was not inappropriate on their face but the volume of messages and time of day the messages were sent indicated that the educator was grooming the student for a future sexual relationship.
  
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• Texting Doomed His Escape
  Rodriguez gained momentary infamy when he succeeded in eluding law enforcement officers from three states and federal marshals after stealing an unmarked police car while his hands and feet were shackled, according to authorities. He used his knees to steer the vehicle before freeing himself of the constraints using a handcuff key on the key chain left in the running car, police said.
  
  After making his unlikely getaway, police were able to track him down early Thursday at a motel in Connecticut by tracing text messages he sent from his cellphone. The account that follows comes from a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case.
  
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• Get Text-Message Reminders of Shows You Want to Watch
  Proof positive that people are wired differently: I'm a walking TV guide, able to tell you the day and time for each of my favorite shows, but my wife has no idea when anythings on. If not for our DVR, she would never catch an episode of Glee.
  
  If you are like her, you might appreciate Remember To Watch. True to its name, the service sends text-message reminders to your cell phone 30 minutes before a selected show is scheduled to air.
  
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• Text messaging to help fight AIDS in Africa
  Kenyan patients with HIV got a weekly text message that asked, How are you? in a reminder for them to take their drugs that help keep the virus dormant.
  
  People who got the texts were 12 per cent more likely to have an undetectable level of the HIV virus.
  
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• Text Messaging Weight Loss
  A San Diego-based company is conducting a study to see if constant text messages can help a person lose weight.
  
  San Diegan Raymond Acosta wants to be fit and healthy, and he said sometimes he needs a little push. He said constant text messages have helped him stay on track.
  
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• AT&T Class Action
  AT&T Mobility notified its subscribers Thursday that they might be entitled to benefits from a proposed class-action settlement over alleged improper charging of Internet taxes.
  
  Subscribers sued AT&T earlier this year, saying the carrier charged them Internet taxes on their mobile service bills in violation of the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act and other laws. Suits in various courts were transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in Chicago. AT&T and the plaintiffs in the case, who represented a broad class of AT&T Mobility customers, reached a settlement agreement in July.
  
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• Software Allows Parents to Monitor Text Messages
  Today, more and more predators are switching to cell phones to lure their victims, but parents can use that same technology to help keep their kids safe.
  
  Amy Antley checks her daughters Facebook page every two to three days. That was one of the stipulations. You have a phone, Facebook, I have the passwords.
  
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• Text Messaging After Bed Time Can Cause Problems
  Text messaging at night can lead to sleeping disorders in kids
  
  Children sending text messages and working on internet before sleeping are more likely to suffer from poor sleep, bad mood, and cognitive problems, reveals a pilot study.
  
  Use of electronic media like cell phones, laptops, iPads, etc. and continuous texting while sleeping is found to cause insomnia, ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning difficulties, and leg pain at night in kids aged between 8 to 22 years.
  
  Researchers said, These activities are not sleep-promoting, like reading a novel or listening to music. They stimulate the brain and depress normal sleep cycles.
• Average Number of SMS
  That's increasingly the attitude of teens in the U.S., who used their mobile phones to send and receive an average of 3,339 texts per month in the second quarter, according to The Nielsen Co. SMS ) is now the main reason to own a cell phone, according to teens in the U.S. SMS, which was created as a testing and communication system for cellular network technicians, is limited to 160 characters per message but has proved well-suited to consumers around the world. The pace at which the average U.S. teens is now using SMS comes out to six messages per waking hour, according to Nielsen.
  
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• Send Text Messages
  Nielsen found that teens send or receive an average of 3,339 texts per month. Those between the ages of 13 and 17 send or receive an average of 4,050 texts per month, far more than any other age group. The next closest group was 18-24 year olds, who send an average of 1,630 text messages per month. Those figures are both greater than the average amount of texts sent during the same quarter in 2009.
• New SMS Fraud
  A new fraud, targeting people selling second-hand goods in newspaper classifieds and online services such as Gumtree, is in operation. According to the Wireless Application Service Providers Association of South Africa (WASPA), the purported buyers use commercial SMS messaging services to send sellers fraudulent confirmations of bank deposits so that they can obtain the sellers goods.
  
  On receipt of an apparently legitimate confirmation that they have deposited the money, they then insist on taking the goods from the seller, who soon discovers that no deposit has been made to his or her bank account. The fraudsters currently operate mostly on the weekends and in the evenings.
  
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• SMS Tells Childrens Whereabouts
  Greenfingers Global School, a co-educational English medium school in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, has installed RFID technology on school grounds to record attendance and monitor student whereabouts, according to a New Delhi Television report.
  
  The schools 850 students will wear RFID-embedded ID cards, which are captured by installed RFID readers and antenna. Once transmitted to the school?s database, the system can send bulk SMS messages to parents regarding their child?s current whereabouts.
  
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• Why Recycle Cell Phones
  Cellular phones and other mobile devices often contain toxic materials that can pollute the environment. The chemicals contained in the cell phones and electronics are harmful to the health of both humans and animals. Cell phones and their accessories contain a large number of hazardous substances known as Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals - PBTs. Some of the chemicals contained in the PBTs have been known to cause damage to nervous systems, reproductive systems, and developmental systems, as well as causing cancer.
  
  When recycled properly, the materials can be put back into circulation, reducing the health risks to the community. The materials that are contained in old cell phones can often be recycled and reused to make a variety of other products. Additionally, in order to comply with environmental protection regulations, many countries have very specific requirements and methods for disposing of cell phones, batteries, and other toxic items. Rather than wrestling with disposal guidelines yourself, it is often much easier to just sell or donate old cell phones to a company qualified to recycle them.
  
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• Partnership for Mobile Interaction
  Taking advantage of the most ubiquitous device in the world ? the mobile phone ? Mobile Messenger and Poll Everywhere  today announced a partnership to provide high school educators with an interactive SMS-based education program.  By leveraging the widely accessible SMS platform, the collaboration successfully scales Poll Everywheres mobile participation system to improve student engagement, increase interaction and raise test scores.  
  
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• FEMA Warning of Text Scam
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency - FEMA and Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division have been made aware that fraudulent text messages have been sent to disaster survivors in neighboring states.
  
  The reported text message tells recipients they have a message waiting from FEMA and instructs them to push the star button on their cell phone to obtain information about their federal disaster assistance. A subscription of $9.99 per month is then charged to the owner of the cell phone if the star button is pushed.
• Passport Status via SMS
  Are you a resident of Chennai who wants to know the status of the passport that you have just applied for? Just send a text message SMS from your mobile phone to the Regional Passport Office.
  
  In a bid to bring down the number of applicants, who throng Shastri Bhavan every day to know the status of their passport applications, the RPO on Friday launched the 'Passport Query Through SMS' system in collaboration with BSNL.
  
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• Facebook to Integrate SMS
  Facebook and internet communications company Skype are planning to announce a wide-ranging partnership that will include integration of SMS, voice chat and Facebook Connect.
• Football Fans Can Text Police
  Football fans at Ross-Ade Stadium can send text messages to report problems during football games, thanks to a new system operated by Purdue Police.
• Texts are Not Phone Calls
  T-Mobile argued in a court briefing today that text-messaging services are not subject to the same regulations as voice services, in defending itself against a lawsuit filed by a text-message marketing company.
  
  Last week T-Mobile was sued by EZ Texting, a company that runs marketing campaigns for various clients that want to send group text messages. In the suit, EZ Texting claimed that T-Mobile pulled the plug on its service after learning it was running a campaign for a client called Weedmaps.com.
  
  However, T-Mobile said it yanked EZ Textings messaging code because it was supposed to get prior approval for all marketing campaigns run over its network, as specified in its agreement with the marketing company. In addition to Weedmaps.com, EZ Texting also failed to get approval for two other services involving party rentals and church services, T-Mobile claimed in its answer to EZ Textings complaint.
  
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• SMS and Facebook
  Recent research has found people want to respond to advertising via their mobile phones and that SMS messages are the preferred method. It makes sense, then, that Facebook users would also like to be communicated with via SMS - at least thats what outfits like TextualAds are hoping.
  
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• Customers Suffer From SMS Ban
  Shivani Anand, 28, was mystified when she didn't receive transaction alerts after swiping her credit card in a shopping spree.
  
  A concerned Shivani called up her banks helpline, only to find out she would not be getting any updates or alerts from the bank on her transactions till Sep 30.
  
  The bank's automated voice response system informed customers that they would not be receiving any alerts in the in the wake of the government banning bulk SMS service across the country.
  
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• Google Apps and SMS
  Google Apps users authorizing access from other applications?email clients, calendar apps, and the like?may soon need to verify both their password and phone access, under a new two-step authorization being pushed by Google. Administrators need to enable it for their domains, but it's a feature that will likely make its way to general Google apps for the public like Gmail. Do you want two-step, SMS-based verification for your Google accounts, or is it a step too far into inconvenience?
  
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• SMS Replier
  The worlds infatuation with texting has grown from 4.1 trillion text messages per year in 2008, to more than 1.6 trillion text messages per day in 2010, and in order to raise awareness of the dangers associated with Texting While Driving TWD, Iconosys, the creator of the smartphone safety app-SMS Replier,- has taken to the roads starting Sept. 9, 2010.
  
  Over the next two months, Iconosys, CEO and founder Wayne Irving II, a pioneer in next-generation telecom concepts, will lead a cross-country tour of major college campuses with scheduled stops on specific days. Departing from California, Iconosys plans to visit every college en route and also other locations that would be announced subsequently. The tour will culminate in Washington DC on September 21st at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's second annual National Distracted Driving Summit.
  
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• T-Mobile Sued
  T-Mobile is being sued by EZ Texting  which claims the fourth-largest U.S. carrier was unfairly blocking its SMS delivery service due to connections with medical marijuana groups.
  
  The company, which offers groups and organizations way to have mass SMS campaigns, said T-Mobile was concerned about its connections to a legal in the state it was located marijuana dispensary group. EZ Texting said it severed ties with this marijuana group but its short code capabilities were revoked anyways.
  
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• Text First, Talk Second
  Text messages use a system that is different than the wireless or land-line connections and is faster than a call. It also uses a fraction of the bandwidth; 800 people can send a text message in the bandwidth used by just one phone call.
  
  In the event of an emergency, set up a texting plan with your friends and family.
  
• Comcast Offers Support via SMS
  Comcast today announced  that the company is deploying support via SMS, allowing users to get account help by sending a text to COMCAST4U (short code 266278). Users can send a variety of messages (listed in the link above) like CALLME, which prompts a call from Comcast support, NOAPPT, which cancels scheduled service calls, or BAL, which provides users with their account balance.
  
  
• Tips to Control Mobile Spending
  Are you one of those who feel dizzy each time you look at your monthly mobile bill? Well, join the club. No matter how hard many of us try to curb our bills, we invariably end up in the same situation month after month wondering where we went wrong. It seems like the mobile phone has become an efficient tool of siphoning our hard-earned money. The bills have so much of technical jargon and fine print that it only serves to add to the confusion.
  
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• Adult Texting on the Rise
  The number of Americans under the sway of the text message has increased again, says the latest Pew Resarch study called Cell phones and American Adults. Still, as you might expect, adults still trail teens by a the considerable number.
  
  The rise, year-over-year, is quite interesting. About 72 percent of adult cell phone users send and receive text messages; last year at the same time the number was 65 percent. Meanwhile, 87 percent of teen cell phone users text, but the percentage hides a much higher number: teens send and receive about 50 SMS messages per day, while adults send and receive five times less, or about 10.
  
  Adult Texting on the Rise
• Tips for Integrating NotePage Pro with IPMonitor
  
  Tips for Integrating NotePager Pro with IPMonitor
• Mastercard SMS Controls
  New York-based Citi will be the first U.S. bank to deploy MasterCards inControl service to consumers, adding new functionality for cardholders by the end of this year. The new service will give cardholders the ability to set spending limits, set budgets and rules for when and how their card can be used, and set up realtime SMS and email alerts based on spending activity.
  
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• The Rise of Text Messaging
  Text messaging is one of the most popular communication methods in the world. The cost of a cell phone and SMS plan compared to that of a computer and a broadband connection has made texting extremely popular in developing countries, and unlimited messaging plans have made it the communication medium of choice for teens everywhere beating face-to-face conversation and e-mail in popularity.
  
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• Threatening Texts Land Pair in Jail
  Lewis County Sheriff's investigators have arrested two men for sending threatening text messages to each other on their cell phones.
  
  Investigators say 26 year old Scott Gaba of Lowville sent 34 year old Jeffrey Hanno of Glenfield a text message threatening to do physical harm to him if he did not stop sending text messages to Gabas girlfriend.
  
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• Direct Text Responses
  Instead of using an algorithm to produce results, as Google and Yahoo do, ChaCha and KGB rely on people to generate their answers. ChaCha provides a free service that allows users to send queries by text or voice message and then receive a text reply, often accompanied by an advertisement, from one of the companys approximately 50,000 part-time responders. Competitor KGB has a similar setup, although its users pay 99 cents per answer and are spared the outside advertising with each response.
  
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• Mel Gibson in Hot Water over Text Messages
  The woman who claims to have been Mel Gibsons mistress at the time of the now-famous January 6 blowout says she was badgered by Mel's bodyguard to keep her mouth shut ... this according to sources who have been in touch with the woman.
  
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• Why You Should Recycle Cell Phones
  Cellular phones and other mobile devices often contain toxic materials that can pollute the environment. The chemicals contained in the cell phones and electronics are harmful to the health of both humans and animals. Cell phones and their accessories contain a large number of hazardous substances known as Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals. Some of the chemicals contained in the PBTs have been known to cause damage to nervous systems, reproductive systems, and developmental systems, as well as causing cancer.
  
  Why You Should Recycle Cell Phones
• Text Messages and Diabetics
  Text messages push diabetics to record blood-sugar levels. What if my blood sugars too high today? Is it time for my blood pressure pill? With nagging text messages or more customized two-way interactions, researchers are trying to use cellphones to help fight chronic diseases.
  
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• Crime Stoppers Using Text Messaging
  U Shud Text Us
  
  That is the message the NYPD is sending the increasingly text-crazed public, urging tipsters to let their fingers do the snitching.
  
  Cops are kicking off a campaign Tuesday to boost the lagging number of text message tips to the Crime Stoppers website.
  
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• Cellar Tapping Devices
  A computer security researcher has built a device for just $1,500 that can intercept some kinds of cell phone calls and record everything thats said.
  
  The significance of Chris Pagets work is that it shows how cheaply such devices, which have been around for decades and are often used by law enforcement, can now be built by hobbyists with equipment easily found on the Internet.
  
  Hacked Cell Phones
• Walking While Texting
  An Ohio State University analysis found that for the past few years, the number of emergency room visits resulting from pedestrian cell phone accidents has doubled year-over-year. The study showed that in 2008, more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms for injuries like walking into a pole while texting or spraining an ankle after falling down while talking on a cell phone.
  
  Even Walking While Texting May Be Dangerous
  
• Top 10 Small Business Mistakes
  Many small businesses make mistakes, and smart entrepreneurs will learn from the mistakes of others. With that in mind, we have compiled a list of some common mistakes that small business owners often make....
  
  1. Knowing It All
  
  Business owners who think they have learned it all will very often tend to fail. Even the most experienced entrepreneurs have to be willing to learn continually. There are always new technologies and markets emerging. It is very important to learn these new technologies and adapt to changing markets.
  
  Top 10 Small Business Mistakes
• Texting While Driving Now Against the Law
  Thursday Governor Patrick signed a bill that bans texting while driving as well as requires vision tests every five years to older drivers. The new law also bans scanning the internet on a mobile device while driving.  The fine for texting while driving will be $100 for a first offense, and up to $500 for repeat offenses. The fine will not be considered a moving violation. Police will be able to pull over anyone they suspect of texting while driving.
  
  Also included in the law is a ban for anyone under the age of 18 from talking on their cellphone and driving. Violators face suspension of their license or permit.
  
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• Cell Phone Etiquette - Part 2
  Cellular telephones, or cellphones, are an important part of modern society. When Miss Manners wrote about good manners and etiquette, mobile phones did not exist nearly to the extent they do in our society today. In an effort to assist cellphone users, we have written up some guidelines to help people use their mobile phones appropriately while navigating in polite society.
  
  Cell Phone Etiquette - Part 2
• Texting Ban Being Enforced
  When Michigans ban on texting while driving takes effect Thursday, police will be able to pull over motorists solely for using their cell phones to send or look at text messages or e-mails.
  
  Some in law enforcement say the similarities between dialing a cell phone, which remains legal, and texting, which will cost drivers $100 for a first offense, will make the ban difficult to enforce. Others, however, say it will be relatively straightforward for officers to spot and ticket violators.
  
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• Learning through Texting
  Teachers and principals at Norwich Free Academy find the constant text-messaging by students to be the most disruptive problem in their classrooms, so now it's their turn.
  
  Throughout the summer, NFA is sending one text message per weekday to students who have signed up - or whose parents have signed them up - for the new Learning Does not Take a Vacation program. The text messages started last week with vocabulary on Monday, science on Tuesday, math on Wednesday, history on Thursday and cultural literacy on Friday.
  
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• SNPP and WCTP Settings
  Collection of settings for sending SMS and text messages to cell phones. Refer to the SNPP and WCTP settings for each carrier.
• TAP Terminal Phone Numbers
  When sending text messages to pagers and cell phone, the terminal phone number is required we have listed the most commonly used numbers along with the settings. Please let us know of any additional modem numbers that you would like to have added to the database.
• How Messaging Works
  A visual look at how text messaging works.
• SMTP Setting to Send Text Messages
  Telecom SMTP settings for sending text messages via email to mobile phones
• Fines Via SMS
  The Ministry of Interior is to introduce a new service by which people, both Saudis and expatriates, will be informed of traffic fines and sent SMS text messages that their ID documents or resident permits need renewal.
• Techno Toddlers
  Parents of young children have particular cause to be concerned, especially now that internet access is fast becoming a basic feature on mobile phones. Phones are tools; they give children access to information which otherwise they would not have had access,says Yinka Awobo-Pearse, a Montessori trained educationist who runs a nursery school in Lagos. What we have to realise is that they open up a world to the children which you have no control over. Normally it was on the PC at home, and you could see them doing it, now it's in their hands.
  
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• Text Emergencies
  It is common knowledge that in case of emergency, you call 911. But what if you can not call out?
  
  What if you are in a hostage situation, or hiding from a burglar in a closet at home? Such questions have floated around local law enforcement agencies for years as wireless phones continue to flood the market.
  
  Taking advantage of the latest trends in technology, Marion County, Fla., has become the latest in the country to accept distress calls via text message. By texting a message to a Sheriffs Office phone number, residents who are in danger can reach emergency responders through the Communication Center.
  
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• Text Message Alibis
  On the night Michelle Lee was murdered, a text message was sent from her phone to Gary McGurkhers: Out walking trying to think. You want me to stop by? said the message to her on-and-off boyfriends phone.
  
  The next day, April 27, 2009, Ms. Lee, a 24-year-old criminalist with the New York Police Department's forensic laboratory, was found dead inside her Queens apartment.
  
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• Software Industry Conference
  We will be presenting at this years Software Industry Conference July 15-17th in Dallas, Texas join us there!
• New Version of PageGate
  A new version of PageGate text messaging software is available. The update is minor with a few fixes.
• Saucy British Text Messages
  Almost two thirds of Brits have sent a naughty phone picture of themselves to the wrong mobile number, according to a survey.
  
  The saucy snaps are normally meant for partners they are sexting, but have ended up with strangers or, even worse, their parents.
  
  And 72% of mobile owners have received steamy shots of people they do not know.
  
  Saucy Text Messages
• SMS Slander Trial Postponed
  Trial of former political secretary to former Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh who was charged with making a criminal threat via SMS to three assemblymen in April last year, was postponed as the accused Datuk Dr Ahmad Ramzi Mohamad Zubir was on medical leave.
  
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• Blocking IPhone SMS Messages
  I have an iPhone 3GS. I haven't paid for a texting plan.The problem is that advertisers have found my phone number and text me. I receive from five to ten unsolicited texts each month. Is it true that AT&T charges 20¢ for incoming text messages when you don't have a text plan? And how can one block receiving all text and messaging to the iPhone?
  
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• Crime Tips via Text Message
  Starting at 8 a.m. Wednesday, citizens who have information on a crime will be able to provide Buffalo police with information through text messaging.
• Google and Mobile Advertising
  US antitrust regulators gave Internet search titan Google a green light to acquire mobile advertising network firm AdMob, saying the deal was unlikely to harm competition.
  
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• Passenger Texting
  The common fear about phone texting while driving is that you may not see a car coming and will get into an accident. This 21-year-old patient, however, was the passenger. So what's wrong with that? I asked. What' is wrong with texting if you are the passenger?
  
  Well, my professor said, this young lady became another casualty of the texting epidemic because she didn't see the collision happening and couldn't brace herself. The angle of her head was such that the airbag hit her obliquely and blinded her to some extent in both eyes.
  
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• Cell Phone Cancer Study
  The largest study to examine a potential link between cellphone use and cancer is already stirring up controversy, two days ahead of its actual release. After many years of ambiguous and sometimes conflicting results, the Interphone study was an attempt to provide a definitive measure of any risks associated with heavy cellphone use. But even the studys authors spent several years arguing over how to interpret the data that came in, before finally producing a report thats due to be published Monday evening, US time.
• Mobile Carriers to Make Warnings
  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed a rule that would require wireless carriers to warn customers about extra fees for using more voice minutes or data than their plan allows.
  
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• Mobile Market is Split
  Research and Markets ... connections, and revenue analysis split by data and voice. This is followed by key data and forecasts on wireless content and the mobile messaging.
• SNPP Settings to Send SMS
  SNPP settings to send text messages via the Internet.
• Net Neutrality
  Net neutrality rules proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission could upset a complex mobile telecom marketplace and lead to fewer handset choices and fewer smartphone applications, a mobile trade group said Monday.
  
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• Health and Cell Phones
  The biggest study to date into the effects of mobile-phone usage on long-term health was launched on Thursday, aiming to track at least a quarter of a million of people in five European countries for up to 30 years.
  
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• Google Mobile Plan Scrapped
  Google Inc said it no longer plans to offer a version of its Nexus One smartphone for the Verizon Wireless network and will change its distribution plans in Britain, underscoring the challenges facing the Internet search company as it expands into the mobile phone market.
• Remote Blackberry Printing
  Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday added mobile printing to its enterprise services offerings, giving BlackBerry users a new way to print documents on the go.
  
  A new services offering called ePrint will let BlackBerry users securely print documents from printers at public locations like hotels, airports or libraries, said John Tomesco, vice president of marketing and development for HPs Imaging and Printing Group. Users will be able to print e-mail messages, images, presentations and documents in file formats such as PDF.
  
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• iPhone Market Saturation?
  AT&T Inc. added fewer wireless customers with contracts in the first quarter than it has since 2004, an indication that the saturation of the market is even starting to catch up with the carrier of the iPhone.
  
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• Mobile Readers to Overtake Kindles of the World
  A new publishing company is betting that readers will bypass electronic readers such as Amazon's Kindle and Sonys Reader in favor of reading bite-sized stories on mobile devices they already own.
  
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• US Supreme Court Hearing Sexting Case
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear the case of whether employees text messages sent by an employer-owned device are considered private.
  
  The case specifically will examine whether a California police department violated the constitutional rights of an employee when it inspected personal text messages sent and received by a pager owned by the city of Ontario, Calif.
  
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• More Mobile Web Surfing in China
  Mobile phones are an increasingly popular way to surf the Internet in rural China, but a digital divide is still growing between the countrys rural and urban areas, a survey found.
  
  Rural China had over 100 million Internet users at the end of last year, accounting for just 15 percent of the rural population, according to a report put online Thursday by the China Internet Network Information Center , the government-controlled overseer of Internet domain names in the country. That compares to 45 percent of people online in bigger cities, a gap that has widened for the last two years, the report said.
  
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• Boosting Cell Signals
  Dead Zone ads may be creepy, but they capture the essence of a problem familiar to many cell phone users: When you're indoors, even within your carriers coverage area, the networks signal sometimes simply is not strong enough to support voice calls or data services. A slew of products now address the problem--but they do not come cheap.
  
  The signal-boosting products generally fall into one of two categories: femtocells or signal repeaters. Both types of equipment can deliver strong signals within buildings, but they work in fundamentally different ways.
  
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• Install PageGate on Windows 7
  Step by step tutorial to install PageGate on Windows 7
• Solve Hay Fever with a Cell Phone
  The Japanese firm behind a dog-bark translation machine and cellphone ring tones meant to attract members of the opposite sex has a new spring-time offering -- a mobile phone application to cure hayfever.
  
  The Japan Ringing Tone Laboratory has released its latest invention just in time for the cherry blossom season, when white and pink petals shower the country and pollen allergies and sinus problems cause misery for millions.
  
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• NotePager Pro on Windows 7
  NotePager Pro will run on Windows 7. To make it a little easier we have created tutorials for running NotePager Pro on Windows 7.
  
  Installing NotePager Pro on Windows 7 32 Bit
  Installing NotePager Pro on Windows 7 64 Bit
• e-Privacy Law
  A coalition of tech vendors and privacy groups is calling on the U.S. Congress to update a 24-year-old law to better protect users of e-mail, cloud computing services and mobile phones from government surveillance.
  
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• UK Regulator Cuts Charges
  A U.K. regulatory agency on Thursday proposed a steep reduction in connection charges for mobile phone users.
• Verizon Launching a Payment System
  Verizon Wireless customers will soon be able to charge up to $25 a month in online purchases to their Verizon Wireless accounts.
  
  The carrier today announced that the e-commerce payment service, based on services created by Danal Inc. will be launched later this spring.  
  
  The service will require text messaging-enabled phones, and that purchases be made from Verizon-approved online stores, which include game sites and social networks.
  
  The service requires that customers click a BilltoMobile button during checkout from a participating online Web site. Users will be asked to input their mobile numbers and mobile billing zip codes for authentication.
  
  Verizon Payment System
• Mobile Ads Passing PC
  Google Inc said that it expects the rates that companies pay for search ads on mobile phones could surpass the rates of its existing PC-based ad business thanks to the growing popularity of powerful smartphones.
• Priority Support Reminder
  Priority Support reminder. If PageGate is critical to your operations it is recommended you purchase Priority Support. Priority Support gives you priority access to technical support as well as free upgrades, details about what is included in PageGate Priority Support can be found here.
• Support Settings
  A quick list of settings for Telecom carrier settings.
  
  TAP Settings
  SNPP Settings
  WCTP Settings
  SMTP Settings
• FCC Proposes Universal Fund
  Federal regulators trying to bring high-speed Internet connections to all Americans will propose tapping the government program that now subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural areas.
  The Federal Communications Commission will include a proposal to reform the Universal Service Fund as part of a national broadband plan due to Congress in less than two weeks.
  
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• Triple A Mobile Batteries
  An Indian mobile phone company has launched a low-cost handset that uses commonly available AAA-sized batteries aimed at the hundreds of millions who live in areas where power supplies are erratic.
  
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• Cell Phones Reveal Predictability
  Humans are unpredictable, movers and shakers - or so we might think. Yet new research that used cell phones to track people reveals the patterns of our movements and where we can be found, day or night, are predictable as much as 93 percent of the time, no matter how far we travel.
  
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• SMS Learning Center
  The SMS and text messaging center includes interactive video tutorials, educational articles and support resources all pertinent to the sending of text and SMS messages. NotePage, Inc. has long been a leader in wireless communication and the SMS learning center expands on their commitment to educate users about messaging technologies, procedures and protocols.
  
  The SMS learning center and videos are freely available, and no login is required. Additional details can be found at: http://www.notepage.net/learning-center/notepage-learning-center.htm
• NotePage Knowledgebase
  Quickly find answers to your NotePage questions using the NotePage knowledgebase.
• Maine Weighs Cellular Health Issues
  Ignoring the health risks of heavy cell phone use invites a cancer epidemic, supporters of a bill requiring manufacturers to put labels on mobile phones and packaging said Tuesday.
  
  We can do nothing and wait for the body count. That is what happened with smoking before warnings on cigarette packs were mandated, David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and Environment at the University of Albany, told Maine lawmakers.
  
  The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on a bill that would make Maine the first state to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, especially among children. Opponents dismissed research pointing to the risks and said the bill is more about politics than science.
  
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• Mobile Carriers Defend Early Termination Fees
  Early termination fees for mobile phone contracts are necessary to subsidize the cost of smartphones and customers know what they are getting into, mobile carriers told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in comments filed this week.
  
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• Prepaid Wireless and T-Mobile
  T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier, said Thursday it gained 371,000 new customers in the fourth quarter, reversing subscriber losses in the third quarter.
  
  But the new subscribers were mainly low-paying ones who do not sign contracts, and T-Mobile USAs earnings and revenue fell from the same period a year earlier.
  
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• Mobile Fund Raiser for Chile
  A US group that harnesses mobile phone technology to raise money for charities on Saturday launched text message campaigns to raise money for victims of the powerful quake in Chile.
  
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• Mobile News
  Just over a quarter of American adults now read news on their cell phones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
  
  The survey results being released by the group Monday offer another sign of how people are changing they way they get information. Technology has been reshaping the news business and the way consumers relate to it for more than a decade. The latest shift is being driven by the exploding popularity of phones that can easily access the Internet.
• Amtrak Goes Wireless
  Amtrak has rolled out wireless Internet access on all 20 of its Acela Express trains between Washington and Boston and in six major stations along the northeast corridor.
  
  The service is free for now, though the railroad says that policy will be reviewed after an introductory period.
• Mobile Compatibility
  The worlds largest mobile phone carriers say they are joining forces to make it easier for software developers to write apps that will run on as many phones as possible.
  
  The Wholesale Applications Community announced Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is an attempt to retake the initiative from phone makers like Apple and Nokia, which have applications stores of their own.
  
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• Skype and Verizon
  2010 is shaping up to be a good year for Skype. A few weeks back, spokesperson Peter Parkes confirmed the companys VoIP iPhone App would soon be able to access AT&Ts 3G network. Now it appears Skype could be making its way to Verizons network.
  
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• French Seniors Resist Cell Phones
  Few French seniors are embracing mobile phones compared to their counterparts in Sweden where nearly all people older than 65 use the technology, while three in four British and US pensioners own handsets, a study said Tuesday.
• NotePage Video Tutorials
  Educational text messaging video tutorials to learn to use NotePager Pro and PageGate.
• Health Texting Campaign
  The White House and major mobile carriers have launched a text-messaging campaign aimed at improving the health of babies in the U.S.
  
  The Text4baby campaign, with support from health-care providers and several government agencies, will deliver health information to women from early pregnancy through their babies first birthdays. The campaign, created by the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, will attempt to provide health tips to combat high rates of premature births and infant deaths in the U.S., the White House said in a press release.
  
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• Nokia Investigated in Securities Fraud
  Nokia, the worlds top mobile phone maker, said Monday a class action complaint alleging securities fraud was filed against it in New York on Friday.
• FCC Seeks Info on Early Termination
  The U.S. telecommunications regulator asked Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc, Google Inc ( and other mobile companies to explain how they tell their customers about early termination fees due when they bow out of service contracts early.
  
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• Why Recycle Cell Phones?
  Cellular phones and other mobile devices often contain toxic materials that can pollute the environment. The chemicals contained in the cell phones and electronics are harmful to the health of both humans and animals. Cell phones and their accessories contain a large number of hazardous substances known as Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs). Some of the chemicals contained in the PBTs have been known to cause damage to nervous systems, reproductive systems, and developmental systems, as well as causing cancer.
  
  Why Recycle Cell Phones?
• Tax on Cell Phone Use
  Ever make a personal call on your company cell phone? Did you record the value of that call as taxable income, as required by law?
  
  Join the club, but do not worry. President Barack Obama will propose repealing the widely ignored requirement as part of his 2011 budget plan, a Treasury Department official said Saturday.
  
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• NotePage News Now Available
  NotePage Newsletter has been posted. Read the latest SMS and Text Messaging News.
• Hands Free
  A bill that would impose a fine on motorists in Pennsylvania who use a cell phone without a hands-free device easily cleared a hurdle Monday in the state House of Representatives.
  
  The House gave preliminary approval to the bill, 156-40. A final vote on the bill could happen as early as Tuesday.
  
  Under the bill, a $50 fine would be imposed on anyone talking or sending text messages on a cell phone, or otherwise using an electronic device for most other purposes. Using an electronic navigation system would remain legal, as would calling 911 while driving.
  
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• SMS Learning Center
  NotePage has recently introduced an SMS learning center to assist customers in sending text messages to mobile phones and wireless devices. The SMS and text messaging center includes interactive video tutorials, educational articles and support resources all pertinent to the sending of text and SMS messages. NotePage, Inc. has long been a leader in wireless communication and the SMS learning center expands on their commitment to educate users about messaging technologies, procedures and protocols.
  
  The SMS learning center and videos are freely available, and no login is required. Additional details can be found at: http://www.notepage.net/learning-center/notepage-learning-center.htm
• China Restores Texting Capabilities
  China has restored mobile text message services in a Western province where they were suspended for months following unrest. Limited Internet access is also returning to the region.
  
  Residents in the Xinjiang region, which is home to Chinas Uighur ethnic minority, can now send up to 20 text messages a day but are still barred from making international phone calls unless they register with authorities, the official China Daily newspaper said Monday. China cut off virtually all Internet, text message and international call services in the region after deadly ethnic riots there claimed nearly 200 lives last July.
  
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• Mobile Price Wars
  The two largest U.S. wireless carriers, Verizon and AT&T, cut their rates on Friday, escalating a price war that began with smaller carriers.
  
  Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile service, said it would cut prices 30 percent for voice customers. It was followed by similar price cuts from its main rival, AT&T Inc.
  
  Mobile Price Wars
• Texting Raised 11 Million for Haiti
  Cellphone users in the United States have contributed more than $11 million to Haitian earthquake relief through text messages in what is being hailed as an unprecedented mobile response to a natural disaster.
  
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• Technology Helping Haitians
  Online maps, mobile phone donations, wikis and a slew of websites are being deployed as telecoms firms, technology giants and startups set aside their rivalries and put the latest tools to work to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
  
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• Text Messaging Resumed
  Text messaging services restarted with some restrictions Sunday for cell phone users in far western China, more than six months after deadly ethnic rioting prompted the government to shut them down.
  
  Users are once again able to send text messages throughout China, but sending texts to overseas numbers remains prohibited, a staffer with the information office of the Xinjiang provincial government said. She declined to give her name as is customary.
  
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• Mobile Phones May Help Alzheimers!
  Long suspected of causing brain tumors, mobile phones are now being eyed as key allies in the fight against Alzheimers disease, US researchers said in a study.
  
  Researchers at the University of South Florida found, to their surprise, that 96 mice they zapped twice daily for an hour each time with electromagnetic waves similar to those generated by US mobile phones benefited from the exposure.
  
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• Apple Buys Quattro Wireless
  Apple has acquired Quattro Wireless, according to an item posted Tuesday on the mobile advertising companys blog.
  
  Quattro has an ad serving, tracking and analytics platform to help advertisers engage with mobile consumers. Its Q Elevation platform can be used to target ad campaigns based on consumer demographics, location, time of day and other factors.
  
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• Taser Goes Mobile
  Stun gun maker Taser wants to help parents, not with jolts of electricity but with a tool which allows parents to effectively take over a childs mobile phone and manage its use.
  
  Taser Goes Mobile
• Developing Nations
  Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo praised the mobile phone on Friday as a history-changing tool and challenged developers to create programs for poor countries.
  
  These little devices have done more to improve peoples lives than perhaps any technology in history, the head of the Finnish mobile phone giant said in a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show.
  
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• Medication Reminders by Text
  Text messaging has been blamed for all sorts of woes in recent years, from distracting drivers and walkers to causing chronic pain and promoting less personal communication. But a pediatrician now suggests that these quick messages have a bright side: They can remind us to take our medication.
  
  Research has shown that up to half of patients may fail to take their daily medication properly, with forgetfulness being a top reason for non-adherence. So at least in some cases, sending a text message reminder may be all that a patient needs, said Robotham, who has encouraged the use of appropriate texting among doctors at her hospital.
  
  Texting to Remind You to Take Your Medication
• 2009 Reflections and 2010 Predictions
  Another year has rolled by marked by miracles, political milestones and tragedies alike. 2009 was the year of financial uproar with bailouts and ponzi schemes dominating the news on a regular basis. Chrysler and GM stalwart car giants struggled to survive. Bernie Madoffs financial pyramid came tumbling down, taking average citizen's retirement plans with it, emptying the coffers of trusting non-profits and celebrities alike.
  
  The United States democratically dominated political landscape juggled health care reform, accusations of death boards, raucous town hall meetings and tea parties from coast to coast. The Swine Flu was quickly renamed H1N1 so that the pork industry would not suffer, and the politicized name change did little to calm pandemic worries.
  
  2009 was also marred by a number of notable deaths. Farrah Fawcett, the charming Charlies Angel, battle with cancer came to an end. The controversial but talented Michael Jackson succumbed to what appeared to be a fatal drug cocktail. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, known for the creation of the Special Olympics, passed on. Ted Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy clan, and another controversial and historic figure, succumbed in his battle against a brain tumor. Walter Cronkite, the most trusted voice in America, died, bringing about the end of an era in journalism. Patrick Swayze who danced his way into our hearts, left us with nothing but sadness over his untimely death.
  
  Some may see, the most noticeable death, as the death of capitalism. The bailouts, the governments role in the car companies, big government and what some seem to feel are steps toward socialism, have caused an unprecedented divide in the US.
  
  2009 Reflections, 2010 Predictions
• Mobile Phones in Prison A Security Concern
  Mobile phones smuggled into British prisons could be used by Islamist militants to spread their extremist ideology and threaten national security, Conservatives claimed today.
  
  Tory security spokeswoman Baroness Neville-Jones quoted official Justice Ministry figures which show that more mobile phones and SIM cards than ever are being secretly brought into jails, despite a ban on their use.
  
  complete article
• NotePage Launched New Initiatives
  Projects that NotePage has launched in 2009
  
  January
  Follow NotePage on Twitter @notepage
  
  May
  NotePager Pro Tutorials
  
  June
  Green Tips  
  
  July
  Green Policy  
  
  September
  New Integration partner Simple Server Monitor
  
  October
  Green Efforts and Policies -
  
  November
  Launched Text Messaging Learning Center
  
  December
  Launched Video Tutorials
  
• Drivers Who Text
  People who send text messages while driving are six times more likely to crash, a new study finds.
  
  The research adds to a mountain of evidence showing that texting or talking on mobile phones while driving is dangerous. Texting seems to be the worst.
  
  The new study was done in a driving simulator, however, so it's not known exactly how the results would translate to the road. Still, the results were stark.
  
  complete article
• Texting Growth Surging
  Americans punched out more than 110 billion text messages in December 2008, double the number in the last month of 2007, as the shorthand communication becomes a popular alternative to cell phone calls.
  
  The nations 270 million cell phone subscribers each sent out an average of 407 text messages in December 2008, according to government statistics released Tuesday by the Census Bureau. That is more than double the 188 messages sent by the average cell subscriber during the same period in 2007. The figures did not break down the texting by age, but the overall numbers understate the thousands of texts sent each month by many teens ? balanced out by older folks who don't text as much.
  
  complete article
• Allied Wireless
  A wireless company that will serve more than 800,000 former Alltel Corp. subscribers announced Tuesday it will locate its corporate headquarters in Little Rock and hire more than 200 workers.
  
  complete article
• Blackberry Outage
  For the second time in a week, BlackBerry users found themselves without e-mail and Internet service, refreshing their screens in futility on Tuesday night as they languished in an agonizing information vacuum.
  
  Some BlackBerry users continued to experience intermittent service disruptions on Wednesday after a major failure shut down the popular wireless e-mail service throughout North and South America.
  
  complete article
• Maine Looking to Implement Cellular Cancer Warning
  Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.
  
  The now-ubiquitous devices carry such warnings in some countries, though no U.S. states require them, according to the National Conference of State Legislators. A similar effort is afoot in San Francisco, where Mayor Gavin Newsom wants his city to be the nations first to require the warnings.
  
  complete article
• Cellular Searches
  Police officers must obtain a search warrant before scouring the contents of a suspects cell phone unless their safety is in danger, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday on an issue that appears never to have reached another state high court or the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  complete article
• Sexting Study
  A small fraction of teens have engaged in sexting, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which spoke to 800 teens around the country. The nonprofit research group found that 15 percent of teens who own cell phones have received these messages, and four percent have actually sent them. Sexting is jargon for the practice of sending nude or sexually suggestive text messages.
  
  The results skew slightly lower than past studies from other groups, but those studies also included e-mail or other means of communication. I will not get into all the previous numbers -- you can read Pews full summary online - but the only group that found significantly higher sexting incidents was the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, whose study said 19 percent of teens used technology to send sexually suggestive photos or videos, and 31 percent had received such materials.
  
  complete article
• Wireless Messaging Glossary
  Terminology and definitions of words related to wireless messaging - wireless messaging glossary.
• Google Android
  Google employees are testing a new mobile device that runs on the companys Android operating system, as the search giant continues its push into the wireless market and toward more direct competition with Apple Inc. iPhone.
  
  In a blog post Saturday, Google said the new device combines hardware built by an unnamed partner with its Android software. The free software is crucial in Googles efforts to make its search engine and other services as accessible on cell phones as they already are on personal computers.
  
  complete article
• PageGate with Solar Winds Orion
  I thought I would share this forum post:
  
  Using Solar Winds Orion with PageGate
  
  1) Install PageGate application on your Orion Server.
  2) From the PG Admin screen, Go to the Registration page and enter your Registration Key. Also check the GetAscii check-box on the Registration Page.
  3) Open the Program/Settings page and check the GetAscii check-box under run on this server:.
  4) Open the Interfaces/GetAscii/Settings page and check the Enabled check-box. Select a path for the Polling Directory. Apply the settings.
  5) Right-click on the Interfaces/GetAscii object and select "Start".
  6) Open the Interfaces/GetAscii/Status page to verify that the status is running. Click refresh several times until you see it running.
  7) Right click the Carriers object and select Add. Create a profile for your paging service using the appropriate protocol, i.e. TAP, SNPP, SMTP etc.
  8) Right click the Recipients object and select Add. Create a profile for a paging recipient. Check the GetAscii check-box. Select the Carrier profile created in step 7. Enter the paging device phone number in the ID/PIN field. change the Max Chars to the appropriate number, i.e 160 chars. Repeat as necessary to create multiple paging recipients.
  9) optional Right click the Groups object and select Add. Fill out the Description and Group name fields. Check the GetAscii checkbox under Enabled Services. Click on Apply. Select the Groups//Email page and create a Mailbox Name. Select the Groups//Members page and add recipients to the Members box and click Apply.
  10) Right-click a recipient or group object and select Send Message". Fill out the message form and click Send to test your configuration. If your texts make it to your phone, you should be able to create Orion alerts at this point.
  11) Open Orion System Manager and create an Alert. Under the Trigger Actions page, Add an Action and select Dial Paging or SMS Service. Click the ellipsis button next to the Page Recipient and you should be able to select from the list of Recipients and or Groups you created in PageGate. Type the SMS message to be delivered in the Message to Send box, using the Insert Variable button to add the Orion Macros to customize the message.
  
  
• Boston Text Ban
  A Boston city councilor is hoping his proposal to ban drivers from sending text messages will spur a statewide ban on a practice most consider dangerous.
  
  John Tobin says he expects his fellow councilors to sign off on the proposal and send it to the mayor by Dec. 16. Mayor Tom Menino, who has already barred city workers from texting while driving, supports the measure.
  
  complete article
• Banning Texting in Missouri
  First Missouris youngest drivers were told to quit sending cell phone text messages, and now lawmakers are going after everybody else.
  
  Lawmakers have filed several bills for the 2010 session that would extend a ban on texting while driving to all motorists. Last year, the Legislature barred just those 21 years old and younger from sending electronic messages.
• FCC Asks Verizon Wireless to Explain
  The Federal Communications Commission on Friday asked Verizon Wireless why it recently doubled the fees it charges customers when they break their contracts on smart phones.
  
  In November, the carrier hiked the maximum early contract termination fee for smart phones to $350 from $175. Like other carriers, Verizon subsidizes the cost of the devices for contract-signing customers, then expects to make that money back in service fees over the term of the contract.
• Cell Phone Etiquette
  Todays society is all about being connected 24-7. Cell phones now provide instant access to anyone and everyone, from corporate executives to housewives and children alike. While cellular connectivity is a comfort to some, it can be rude and disruptive to others. You may wish to be available at all times, but there are some times when it is simply not appropriate to use your cell phone.
  
  Also, cell phones should not be treated as status symbols, and should not be paraded out simply to impress others. Regardless of how new and impressive your cell phone may be, dragging it out in a public setting is seldom going to win you any fans.
  
  Follow these simple cell phone guidelines to strike a balance between accessibility and consideration for others...
  
  Cell Phone Etiquette
• GPS Cell Phones are an Added Value
  The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go.
  
  Manufacturers of standalone GPS products will have to move quickly and smartly to transform their dumb map readers into intelligent devices that can provide a host of services such as traffic avoidance.
  
  complete article
• Video Tutorials for Sending SMS Messages
  In order to assist customers and prospective customers we have created a series of Text Messaging Video Tutorials. The video tutorials walk users through a series of setup scenarios in NotePager Pro and PageGate.
• Skype Sale
  Online auction giant eBay announced it had completed its sale of Skype to an investment group that includes the two founders of the Web communications company.
• One Forth of Teens Text While Driving
  One-fourth of US teenagers aged 16 and 17 have sent text messages while driving and over 40 percent have had a cellphone conversation while behind the wheel, according to a study published on Monday.
  
  Twenty-six percent of teenagers aged 16 and 17 have texted while driving, according to the survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project -- about the same rate as found in separate studies conducted among adults.
  
  The survey found boys and girls were equally likely to text while driving.
• Sprint Nextel May Be Struggling
  Shares of Sprint Nextel Corp. slipped Wednesday as Standard & Poors warned it may cut the wireless providers credit rating based on the its weak performance this year.
  
  complete article
• Airport Wireless Courtesy of Google
  Google is giving the gift of free wireless Internet to travelers at a host of US airports this holiday season.
  
  The California-based Internet powerhouse said Tuesday that it is working with Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, and Airport Marketing Income to turn airports into free Internet hot spots through January 15 of next year.
• Two Part Cell Phone
  With my luck I would lose half!
  
  Fujitsu is breaking new ground in the cell phone market with the imminent introduction of a cell phone that splits into two parts.
  
  The F-04B was announced this week as part of NTT DoCoMos new line-up and is scheduled to hit Japanese shelves in March or April next year. At first glance it looks like a conventional slider cell phone: grab onto the bottom of the phone and a numeric keypad slides out. But decouple a catch and the entire back half of the phone can be pulled off.
  
  complete article
• Google Buys Mobile Ad Firm
  Google Inc said on Monday that it was acquiring of AdMob, one of the largest mobile advertising networks, for $750 million, widening its bet that cell phone advertising could become the Internet's next-big money maker.
• Smart Phone Bill of Rights
  High prices they pay to wireless service providers, as well as the treatment they get from providers once they are locked into a two-year service contract. Americans have limited choices in mobile broadband devices and services, and mobile operators in the United States currently enjoy relative freedom from regulation.
  
  Because of those two conditions and in light of the billions of dollars that U.S. consumers spend on wireless devices and services, a bill of rights is necessary to protect consumers against mistreatment by service providers. Following are the standards, safeguards and solutions that we'd like to see.
  
  complete article
• Cell Phones Do Not Increase Isolation
  If you are worried that your employees or children are disengaging from the world by using the Internet and cell phones, relax. A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that these technologies have not increased social isolation in the U.S.
  
  The Personal Networks and Community Survey is the first to examine this issue. It found that the amount of severe isolation has hardly changed since a previous study, which was conducted in 1985 before these technologies emerged. About six percent of adults, roughly the same as in 1985, report they have no one in their life that they consider especially significant and with whom they can discuss important issues in their lives.
  
  complete article
• Sexting Laws
  Teenagers may think it is harmless, but sending sexually explicit pictures and messages over cell phones can lead to emotional problems and criminal charges that will affect them for the rest of their lives, criminal justice officials said.
  
  Investigators and prosecutors on Thursday warned of the dangers of electronically transmitting racy images and words at a hearing organized by Rep. Anastasia Pittman, D-Oklahoma City, into the practice of sexting, distributing nude or seminude self-portraits over cell phones.
  
  complete article
• Republican Blackberry Apps
  The Republican leadership in the US House of Representatives unveiled a free application for the Blackberry on Thursday to keep users up to date on the latest in Congress through their cellphones.
  
  The Blackberry application called WhipCast comes slightly more than two weeks after the Republican Party rolled out a new website that embraces the social media tools used by Democrat Barack Obama to win the presidency.
  
  complete article
• T-Mobile Outage
  Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers.
  
  The company posted a message in its online customer forum saying service was restored by late Tuesday after problems had popped up around 5:30 p.m. EST.
  
  T-Mobile says the outages appeared in several regions. Subscribers from Atlanta to Los Angeles complained on Internet message boards.
  
  complete article
• Settings for Sending Text Messages
  Get the latest settings for telecom carriers to send text messages. TAP, SNPP, WCTP and SMTP.
• Mobile Basketball
  The National Basketball Association will give its digital offering the full court press, introducing complete live games on mobile phones, including Apple Incs iPhone, for $40 a year.
  
  complete article
• Cell Phone Etiquette
  Todays society is all about being connected 24-7. Cell phones now provide instant access to anyone and everyone, from corporate executives to housewives and children alike. While cellular connectivity is a comfort to some, it can be rude and disruptive to others. You may wish to be available at all times, but there are some times when it is simply not appropriate to use your cell phone.
  
  Also, cell phones should not be treated as status symbols, and should not be paraded out simply to impress others. Regardless of how new and impressive your cell phone may be, dragging it out in a public setting is seldom going to win you any fans.
  
  Follow these simple cell phone guidelines to strike a balance between accessibility and consideration for others...
  
  NotePage Learning Center
• Cell Phones Used To Contact Pilots
  Minneapolis airport police say controllers tried to contact the pilots of a wayward Northwest Airlines jetliner by radio, data message and cell phone after it failed to land as scheduled.
  
  Federal officials are investigating how the San Diego-to-Minneapolis flight overshot the airport by 150 miles on Wednesday. The pilots have told authorities they were distracted by a heated conversation.
  
  complete article
• Nokia says Apple iPhone Infringes on Patent
  Nokia, the world's largest maker of cell phones, is suing Apple in U.S. federal court, saying the iPhone uses patented wireless technologies.
  
  Nokia Corp. claims the iPhone infringes on ten patents covering both phone calls and Wi-Fi access. It says 40 other phone manufacturers have licensed these patents from Nokia, but Apple has not.
  
  complete article
• What Is Stored on Your Cell Phone Is Startling
  There are certain things you do not want to share with strangers. In my case it was a stream of highly personal text messages from my husband, sent during the early days of our relationship. Etched on my phones SIM card - but invisible on my current handset and thus forgotten - here they now are, displayed in all their brazen glory on a strangers computer screen.
  
  What Is Stored on Your Cell Is Startling
• Sidekick Halted
  US wireless carrier T-Mobile temporarily halted sales of the Sidekick mobile phone Monday after a server failure caused many customers to lose personal data such as contacts and calendar items.
  
  Sidekick models were listed as temporarily out of stock on the T-Mobile website following the incident with Sidekick data services provider Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft.
  
  T-Mobile and Microsoft-Danger apologized to customers for the data loss in a statement over the weekend.
  
  complete article
• Walmart Cell Service
  Walmart is teaming up with prepaid carrier TracFone to offer Straight Talk, a no-contract wireless service.
  
  Users can choose between a $45 per month plan that offers unlimited calls, texts, and mobile Web access, or a $30 per month plan that provides 1,000 minutes, 1000 texts, and 30MB of mobile Web access.
• NotePage Green Efforts
  NotePage is an eco-friendly business. In recent years, we have made a number of changes in an effort to become a more environmentally-friendly and conscientious business. Here are just a few of the things that NotePage has done in our effort to become a more green business... NotePage, Inc. Green Efforts
• French Looking to Ban Cell Phones In School
  Pupils at French primary schools and middle schools could be banned from using mobile phones in school under draft legislation approved Thursday by the French Senate.
  
  The measure, proposed by the government, is just one clause of an enormous piece of environmental legislation that must still be debated by the National Assembly before it has any chance of becoming law.
  
  complete article
• Vonage Going To Mobile Devices
  Vonage is expanding its horizons beyond delivering VoIP over broadband Internet, and hoping to expand its customer base and revenue at the same time. The new app from Vonage allows Blackberry and iPhone users to place cheaper international calls from their mobile phones. It also highlights the shifting competitive landscape between previously separate technologies.
  
  complete article
• Steps Businesses Can Take to Go Green
  A business that makes the decision to be environmentally-conscious will often promote goodwill among potential customers, while making the world a better place for future generations. Many businesses hesitate to adopt green practices because they fear it will hurt their bottom line and negatively impact profits. But many eco-conscious businesses discover that they can actually save money and bring in new customers who specifically patronize companies that actively make an effort to be environmentally friendly. Many customers may even be willing to pay a bit more for a product or service from a company that is green.
  
  Steps Businesses Can Take to Go Green
• Device to Locate Kids
  With a computer or cell phone and an electronic tracking device, you can locate a missing pet, follow the path of a stolen car, find a skier buried in an avalanche and rescue a hiker lost in the woods.
  So what about a child snatched by a stranger?
  
  About 800,000 children are reported missing in the U.S. each year. The vast majority are runaways, followed by parental abductions, said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. About 58,000 children are kidnapped by strangers, and 99 percent of those come home fairly quickly, often victims of sexual abuse.
  
  Then there are the approximately 115 children a year like Jaycee Dugard, who are snatched then murdered, ransomed or kept for several years.
  
  complete article
• AT&T Accuses Google
  AT&T asked the Federal Communications Commission Friday afternoon to look into Google's alleged blocking of some phone calls through its Google Voice service, a practice the phone giant called a violation of federal telecommunications laws.
  
  complete article
• Mobile Phone Banking
  With the introduction of an iPhone app that lets you deposit a check by taking a picture of it, options for mobile banking are growing rapidly. And though you might think the boost in convenience comes at the expense of security, banking on your cell phone can actually be safer than using your PC if you take basic precautions.
  
  Mobile Phone Banking
• Number of Wireless Carriers
  How many wireless carriers do we need? It's a question that's popping up again as T-Mobile USA is said to be looking at buying Sprint Nextel Corp.
  
  Now that most people have a cell phone and once-heady growth in the industry is slowing, analysts say carriers are going to be looking at buying each other to increase their scale and to avoid competing too much on price. Consumers have been benefiting from relentless price-cutting on cell phone service in the past few years.
  
  complete article
• Risks of Cell Phone Use
  It is too soon to know if cell phone users are at risk of developing cancer, but research conducted in Scandinavia and Israel suggests that, at the very least, there is cause for concern and a need for further investigation, experts told a Senate panel Monday.
  
  complete article
• Green Company Policy
  Read the NotePage, Inc. green company policy.
  
  NotePage recognizes that all businesses can have a direct or indirect impact on their local, regional, and global environment. As a result NotePage, Inc. has developed a Green Policy in order to minimize their environmental impact.
• Sprint Using Google Android
  Sprint Nextel is releasing a phone with Googles Android software Oct. 11.
  
  That would make Sprint the second U.S. carrier to get on board with Googles entry in the smart-phone field, where the online search leader is competing against Apple, Microsoft, Palm and Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry.
  
  complete article
• eCall Alerts
  E.U.s mobile-phone industry on Wednesday signed up to eCall, a Europe-wide road accident alert system designed to reduce fatalities and serious accidents on the continents roads.
  
  The technology involves an onboard device that automatically dials 112 -- Europe's single emergency number -- and relays the exact location of the vehicle and the direction it is traveling in, using a mobile-phone signal and the vehicles GPS coordinates.
  
  complete article
• Never Forget
  
• Going Green Saves Green
  Businesses that are going green are becoming more and more commonplace. Regardless of your political beliefs or opinions regarding the global warming concept, few can argue that being environmentally aware will leave the world a better place. Whether a company is simply jumping on the green bandwagon, or are honestly sensitive about environmental issues is really irrelevant. Consumers like green businesses, and shaping your business to promote being eco-friendly makes sense from a public relations standpoint.
  
  Going Green Saves Green
• Cell Phone Tax Law Confusion
  A little understood 20-year-old U.S. Internal Revenue Service rule that taxes employees personal use of employer-provided mobile phones should be repealed, trade group CTIA said.
  
  The rule could potentially cost employees with employer-provided phones hundreds of dollars in federal income taxes a year, were it enforced.
  
  complete article
• Cell Phone Detection
  Officials from five states observed tests on cell phone detection technology at a closed Maryland prison on Thursday, as states are taking a greater interest in finding ways to halt violence orchestrated by inmates behind prison walls.
  
  Cell Phone Detection
• New Integration Partner: Simple Server Monitor
  NotePage, Inc. is very pleased to announce the addition of Simple Server Monitor as an integration partner.
  
  Simple Server Monitor is an affordable, powerful, and user-friendly server monitoring utility that will continually monitor the status of your servers and web applications.  Simple Server Monitor can easily integrate with NotePager Pro read more about the details of the integration.
• Solar Cell Phones Take Off in Developing Nations
  Samsung unveiled a solar-powered phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this year and introduced its first sun-powered phone in India in mid-June. The company expects its Solar Guru model to perform well in India, another country where electrical supply can be erratic.
  
  Unlike many technological innovations, the solar phone is making its big splash in developing nations, where the need is the greatest. After the Solar Guru is in circulation in India, Samsung said, it plans to launch similar phones in other Asian markets, Europe and Latin America.
  
  complete article
• Text Messaging Firing
  Cartoon about being fired by text message.
• Dell Entering the Mobile Market?
  Dell Inc is developing mobile devices for China Mobile Ltd, according to spokesmen for the computer maker, which has long been rumored to have ambitions in the smartphone market.
• Texting Outer Space
  An Australian website is giving texting an intergalactic touch and allowing users to send short mobile phone-type messages into space.
  
  From Wednesday and until August 24, people hankering for an out-of-this-world experience can visit www.HelloFromEarth.net to post messages no longer than 160 characters that will be transmitted to Gliese 581d, the nearest Earth-like planet outside the solar system likely to support life.
  
  complete article
• New Verizon Network
  Verizon Wireless says it has completed the first calls using a brand-new network that is planned to go live next year, offering faster Internet speeds.
  
  The calls were made Friday in Boston and earlier in Seattle, using cell-tower equipment from Alcatel-Lucent and LM Ericsson AB. Prototype tablet-style handheld devices from LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. dialed in.
  
  The calls used the 700 megahertz frequency band, just recently freed up for cellular use after being assigned to TV stations.
  
  completed article
• NotePager Pro and PageGate Video Tutorials
  We are working on a collection of video tutorials for NotePager Pro and PageGate if their is something in particular that you would like to see please drop us a note!
• Virgin Mobile Profits
  Wireless carrier Virgin Mobile USA Inc, which has agreed to be acquired by Sprint Nextel Corp, reported a higher quarterly profit that beat market estimates as it continued to benefit from the growth of its profitable hybrid customer base.
  
  Hybrid gross additions grew to 63 percent of total gross additions in the second quarter, from 55 percent in the first quarter, resulting in a 20 percent year-over-year growth in total hybrid gross customer additions in the first half of 2009, the company said.
  
  complete article
• Paying with Your Cell Phone
  Imagine waving your cell phone and being admitted through the turnstile of a subway station, or ordering and paying for a gift without once having to open your wallet or enter a credit-card number.
  Yes, you can -- just not so much in the United States.
  
  Mobile commerce has been touted as a major growth prospect for years, but the industry still faces several big hurdles before it takes off in the United States, executives and analysts say.
  
  complete article
• Transportation and Texting Summit
  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday he will convene a summit of experts to figure out what to do about driver cell phone use and texting, practices that studies ? and a growing number of accidents ? show can be deadly.
  
  LaHood said he intends to gather senior transportation officials, safety advocates, law enforcement representatives, members of Congress and academics who study distracted driving for the summit next month in Washington.
  
  complete article
• The Rise of Sexting
  A growing number of British teenagers are swapping sexually explicit images of themselves on mobile phones leaving them open to bullying and victimization by their peers, police and a childrens charity said on Tuesday.
  
  complete article
• Texting Accidents
  Police say a western New York tow truck driver was texting on one cell phone while talking on another when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool.
  
  Niagara County sheriff's deputies say 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks of Burt admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the car Wednesday morning in Lockport, which is outside Buffalo.
  
  complete article
• Motorola Posts Profit
  Motorola, the largest US mobile phone maker, rebounded from three straight quarters of losses and posted a small quarterly net profit on Thursday.
  
  The Schaumburg, Illinois-based company reported a net profit of 26 million dollars in the second quarter of the year compared with a net profit of four million dollars a year ago.
  Motorola posted a net loss of 231 million dollars in the first quarter.
  
  Earnings per share of one cent in the second quarter were better than expected by analysts who had forecast a loss of four cents per share.
• Driving and Cell Phones Do Not Mix
  Talking on a cell phone while driving increases the risk of a crash but not nearly as much as text messaging while behind the wheel, according to a report released on Tuesday.
  
  The report by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that texting while driving increased the risk of a crash or a near crash by more than 23 times.
• Senators Push for Ban on Texting
  Four senators pushed for a bill Wednesday to ban texting while driving, a day after a study found that drivers who text while on the road are much more likely to have an accident than undistracted drivers.
  
• Text Etiquette
  Perhaps the wildest, most unpredictable area in the realm of high-tech etiquette, text messaging is fraught with pitfalls that can turn otherwise sensible people into rude and thoughtless jerks. Try these simple tips to ensure that you will never annoy others or embarrass yourself with your cell phone.
  
  complete article
• Size Matters!
  Wireflys latest cell phone survey reveals that, at least when it comes to mobile phones, size matters.
  
  About 64 percent of consumers surveyed are only concerned with the basics, as opposed to enhanced features like Web browsers, music players, or video streaming.
  
  In fact, 59 percent of cell phone buyers cited size and form factor as the most important feature of a phone.
  
  complete article
• Verizon Profits Fall While Revenue Rises
  Verizon Communications posted a smaller quarterly profit on Monday but revenue rose due to wireless subscriber growth and its purchase earlier this year of rural wireless operator Alltel.
• NotePage Newsletter
  Welcome to NotePage news. If preferred this newsletter can also be viewed online at: http://www.notepage.net/newsletter-07-24-09.htm
  
  NotePage Goes Green!
  NotePage is making an effort to go green read the latest green news. Each newsletter will include a section containing green tips!
  
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  NotePager Pro Tutorials
  We have updated the tutorials for NotePager Pro, use the tutorial to setup NotePager Pro and send text messages to cell phones.
  http://www.notepage.net/notepager-pro-tutorials.htm
  
  PRTG Integration
  Paesslers network monitoring software, PRTG Network Monitor, offers multiple methods to relay notifications, including SMTP mail relay, SMS, ICQ, etc., allowing users to ensure in various ways that they are informed if an issue, such as an outage or a slow server needs to be brought to their attention. However, there are times when the normal relay means do not suffice, particularly if the main leased line used to connect to the network is interrupted.
  http://www.paessler.com/blog/2009/07/03/prtg-7/using-pagegate-paging-gateway-to-relay-notifications-for-prtg/
  
  100 Countries
  We are very pleased to announce that NotePage, Inc.'s software is now used in more than 100 countries around the world. NotePage has made its mark on the world.
  
  Time Management Tips
  Managing your time and using it wisely is a journey, and not something that can be easily mastered overnight. Implementing a plan will help, but it is not going to be a sure cure. Time management requires a significant amount of self-discipline. Here are some tips to assist you with time management...
  http://www.small-business-software.net/time-management.htm
  
  Tips for Public Speaking and Presenting
  Presentations can be a great way to attract new business, simply by making yourself more well-known. However, nerves can often get in the way of entrepreneurs who want to use speaking opportunities to develop their business.
  
  Follow these steps to overcome nerves and make a powerful presentation during your public speaking engagement...
  http://www.small-business-software.net/tips-for-public-speaking.htm
  
  Green Tips - Steps Businessses Can Take to "Go Green"
  While not all companies may be considered Eco-Entrepreneurs, be reasonable when possible, and take proactive steps toward being green, which are not only good for the environment, but also good for your bottom line .
  http://www.notepage.net/steps-businesses-can-take-to-go-green.htm
  
  Suggested Websites
  
  Digital Sound Effects
  Wide variety of royalty free sound effects available for download. The sound effects can even be converted into mobile ringtones.
  http://www.digital-sound-effects.com
  
  PowerPoint Templates
  Themed PowerPoint Templates for business presentations. The professional quality PowerPoint templates polish presentations.
  http://www.ppt-templates.net
  
  Web Design Elements
  Themed packs for businesses that include logos, web templates/layouts, and stock photos.
  http://www.webdesign-elements.com
  
  Thank you
  We'd like to thank you for your continued support. It is through customer support and your suggestions that we've been able to continually improve the NotePage product line.
  
  Thank you for your continued support!
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  Leaders in Wireless Messaging Software
• SMS Messaging Resources
  Be sure to check out the large collection of resources and settings we have put together for sending text messages to cell phones and pagers.
  SMTP Settings
  SNPP Settings
  WCTP Settings
  
  
• Use Caution at Work
  A few tips for employees regarding Internet and cell phone use:
  
  - Remember that anything you do on a company-issued computer or cell phone ? in or out of the office ? could be tracked by a boss, the courts or a regulator. Many employers monitor Web site use, keystrokes, instant messages and e-mail. Some even archive text messages on work cell phones.
  
  Use Caution at Work
• Texting Teen Falls in Manhole
  In the past, bills have been introduced to prevent pedestrians from text messaging while crossing the street, though I am unaware of any that made it into law. Perhaps such a law would have saved this teen from a ton of embarrassment.  Alexa Longueira, 15, of Staten Island, fell into an open manhole while texting.
• Mobile Hacking
  British police probed allegations Thursday that a top-selling newspaper paid private investigators to hack into the mobile phones of thousands of high-profile figures.
  
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• Text for a Job
  Want a job in marketing? Sell yourself in a 160 character text message.
  
  British mobile phone content provider Teimlo is looking for a new marketer but is only taking job applications by text message - and will only text back candidates who make the shortlist.
  
  complete article
• Wireless Company Investigation
  The new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has promised to examine exclusivity deals between wireless and handset providers, but the chairman of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee has asked that the chairman ? and the Department of Justice ? expand on that and examine the entire industry for anti-competitive behavior.
  
  Wireless Company Investigation
• Steps Businesses Can Take to Go Green
  A business that makes the decision to be environmentally-conscious will often promote goodwill among potential customers, while making the world a better place for future generations. Many businesses hesitate to adopt green practices because they fear it will hurt their bottom line and negatively impact profits. But many eco-conscious businesses discover that they can actually save money and bring in new customers who specifically patronize companies that actively make an effort to be environmentally friendly. Many customers may even be willing to pay a bit more for a product or service from a company that is green.
  
  Many businesses already do things that are eco-friendly, not necessarily because they are sensitive to green living, but simply to save money. That does not, however, diminish the value of their green efforts. The trick for businesses is to be eco-friendly without compromising profitability.
  
  Steps Businesses Can Take to Go Green
• PRTG Network Monitoring Alerts
  Paesslers network monitoring software, PRTG Network Monitor, offers multiple methods to relay notifications, including SMTP mail relay, SMS, ICQ, etc., allowing users to ensure in various ways that they are informed if an issue, such as an outage or a slow server needs to be brought to their attention. However, there are times when the normal relay means do not suffice, particularly if the main leased line used to connect to the network is interrupted.
• Cell Phones are Cheaper in EU
  European travellers will pay less to use their mobile phones while abroad in the EU from Wednesday when new regulated price caps take effect across the 27-nation bloc.
  
  Under the new limits, the price of making a call while abroad in the European Union will fall to 43 euro cents per minute, excluding sales tax, from a previous maximum of 46 euro cents.
  
  complete article
• Sprint Court Case
  A U.S. district judge ruled that Sprint Nextel Corp will not face a nationwide class-action lawsuit that claims the No. 3 U.S. mobile company overcharged customers for taxes and refused refunds, court documents show.
  
  complete article
  
• Mobile Money
  Being able to use a mobile phone for money transfers, bill payments and even savings would give some of the world's poorest people the chance to become part of the financial system, telecom providers and bankers have said.
  
  complete article
• Cell Phone Disaster Alerts
  Tens of thousands of mobile users in Bangladeshs flood and cyclone-prone areas will now receive advance warning of an impending natural disaster through an alert on their cell phones, a government official says.
  
  Bangladesh -- one of the worlds most densely populated countries -- is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, including cyclones, storm surges, droughts, floods and earthquakes, which often affect millions of people.
• Wireless Messaging Glossary
  Glossary of Wireless Messaging Terms.
• Time Management Tips
  Managing your time and using it wisely is a journey, and not something that can be easily mastered overnight. Implementing a plan will help, but it is not going to be a sure cure. Time management requires a significant amount of self-discipline.
  
  Here are some tips to assist you with time management...
• Exclusive Deals Harmful?
  The Federal Communications Commission will open an investigation into whether exclusive cell phone deals are harmful to consumers, acting Chairman Michael Copps said Thursday.
  
  complete article
• Cellular Tax Repeal
  The Obama administration on Tuesday said it will back repealing a hard-to-enforce tax on personal use of work cellphones, appeasing the business community, phone makers and users.
  
  A 1989 law requires companies seeking to deduct worker cellphones as an expense to track personal use with painstaking documentation of minutes. The government, in a notice last week sought public comment on making compliance easier, but now says the law should be scrapped altogether.
  
  complete article
• Text Message Price Collusion Possible
  U.S. wireless carriers Verizon Communications and AT&T took issue with assertions that they colluded in setting prices for text messages, saying on Tuesday that prices for most customers had fallen and the market was competitive.
  
  complete article
• Web Review Webinar
  Join us June 23rd for the 2nd Website Critique and Review Webinar. Subjects covered include the initial impression created by a website, structure, navigation, communication, SEO setup and more. The second website critique will be taking place on Tuesday June 23rd at 12:00 EST. Sign-up to have your website reviewed.
• Driving While Texting
  The vast majority of US mobile phone users know that making calls, texting and using other features while driving is dangerous, but admit doing so anyway, a poll showed Tuesday.
  
  Seventy-two percent of people who drive and own a cellular phone admitted that they use their mobile while driving, even though more than eight in 10 said they thought that doing so was dangerous, the Harris Interactive survey of 2,681 adults showed.
  
  complete article
• T-Mobile Breach
  T-Mobile is investigating a claim that a massive amount of internal data has been stolen from the telecommunication operators servers, a company spokesman said Monday.
  
  complete article
• Pandemics Limited By Cell Phones
  A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls.
  
  If nothing is done, it will quickly gain momentum and rip through the student body, then jump to parents and others in the community. But officials will attempt to stymie the disease and save the school ? using mobile phones.
  
  complete article
• Common GPS for Flights
  Get lost in the woods and a cell phone in your pocket can help camping buddies find you. Drive into a ditch and GPS in your car lets emergency crews pinpoint the crash site. But when a transcontinental flight is above the middle of the ocean, no one on the ground can see exactly where it is ? in the air, or worse, in the water.
  
  The disappearance of Air France Flight 477 and its 228 passengers over the Atlantic Ocean this week has critics of radar-based air traffic control calling on the U.S. and other countries to hasten the move to GPS-based networks that promise to precisely track all planes. Current radars are obsolete more than 200 miles from land.
  
  complete article
• Greener Cell Phones
  Cellphone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled on Thursday two handset models it said are more eco-friendly, adding that the company will push greener features across its product line in the next two years.
  The new models, C901 GreenHeart and Naite, will be sold in smaller packages and have user manuals that are electronic. The devices use more recycled materials and consume less energy.
  
  Greener Cell Phones
• Plants Can Send Text Messages
  Technology that lets plants send text alerts when they are running dry may someday reduce overwatering, says a Discovery Channel report. A chip about the size of a clip-on earring can be attached to a plant leaf and linked to regular cell-phone networks, sending a text message when it is time to irrigate. Watering only when necessary could save water and energy, especially in the arid West. A company called AgriHouse is marketing the chip, which is based on technology developed by NASA for long space trips.
  
  Plants Can Send Text Messages
• Student Discount at Software Conference
  Student Discount for Software Industry Conference in Boston MA July 16-18th. Only $50.00 with student ID normally $249.00! Educational sessions for software developers and marketers.
• The Future of Mobile Phones
  Few companies innovate with the intensity and frequency of those working in mobile, and todays present is a future that only a handful of people would have predicted just a few short years ago. While most of us happily soak up rampant innovation as mere consumers, a handful of people in the hallowed corridors of mobile R&D labs are already working on the next big thing -- the phones we'll be carrying around in our back pockets in 2012 and beyond.
  
  Very occasionally we get a glimpse of this future. Nokia recently went public with their morph concept phone -- an idea which seems so crazy and off-the-wall it might actually be possible.
  
  complete article
• Jitterbug Recall
  GreatCall and Samsung jointly recalled 160,000 easy-to-use Jitterbug cell phones after the phones carrier discovered the units could not make 911 calls in a small rural carriers coverage area.
• Software Industry Conference Participation
  Join us at the Software Industry Conference. The conference is a premier event for software developers and software marketers. We will have speakers presenting and participating in the conference.  There is even a Student Discount for Software Industry Conference admission is only $50.00 with student ID normally $249.00! Educational sessions for software developers and marketers. The conference is in Boston MA July 16-18th.
• NotePager Pro Tutorials
  We have just added some new tutorials for using NotePager Pro text messaging software. There is a setup and installation tutorial, adding carriers tutorial, and adding recipients tutorial.
• Cellular Rattle
  When Annamarie Saarinen needed to soothe her ailing daughter, she used a rattle ? downloaded to her iPhone.
  
  Jeff Hilimire uses a white noise application on his phone to make shushing noises for his infant daughter. And Tracie Stier-Johnson lets her young daughters answer trivia questions on her phone while waiting in the doctors office or at parent-teacher conferences.
  
  complete article
• Cell Blocking
  Gov. Martin OMalley said Monday he would consider going against federal law to hold a cell-phone jamming demonstration at a Maryland prison to help stop illegal cell phone use by prison inmates, but he hopes that won't be necessary.
  
  O'Malleys spokesman, Rick Abbruzzese, said the administration plans to send a request to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to hold a demonstration, but has not yet. The FCC has said the Communications Act of 1934 doesn't allow state and local agencies to use the technology, which prevents cell tower transmissions from reaching phones.
  
  complete article
• iPhone Fees
  If you want an iPhone but are turned off by the high monthly service fees, some good news may be on the horizon. According to BusinessWeek, AT&T Wireless may offer lower-priced plans as early as late May. If the report is true, the starter iPhone plan would cost about $60 a month.
  
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