Archive for February, 2007

Canadian Telco Offers Adult Mobile Content

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Canadian telco Telus has added an adults only section to its portal making it the first North American carrier to offer adult cell phone content. The service offers images of naked men and women to be sent to the cell phone for $3 or short video clips for $4.
Telus says it offered this service in [...]

Text Messaging Signals The End of Cursive Writing

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Is cursive writing a thing of the past? It sure seems so according to The Free Press. The Free Press reports that only 15% of all high school students used cursive writing on the essay portion of the SAT test. The rest all wrote in BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS. The Free Press reports that 1.5 million [...]

Dating = Text Messaging

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Active daters are more likely to communicate via text message than married couples or those in long term relationships, according to a study done by International Communications Research. 59% of those dating had sent a text message to their partner, but only 30% of married couples had done so. Overall, 33% had sent a text [...]

I LUV U: Valentine’s Day Text Messaging

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Love letters just aren’t what they used to be.
I doubt tomorrow’s married woman will have a box full of yellowing love letters in a cardboard box in the attic. These memories will never be cherished by the long handwritten letter that were received back in the day.
How can they be? Today’s love letters are electronic. [...]

Reporter Just Doesn’t Get Text Messaging

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

This middle aged reporter for a Washington state television station just didn’t get it regarding why anybody would text message. Consider it a generation gap.
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