A study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that drivers distracted by text message are 23 times more likely to be in a crash than drivers that are not sending or receiving a text message.
Drivers typing a text message spend 4.6 seconds out of every 6 seconds looking away from the road. If going [...]
We’ve all seen it. Teens glued to their cell phones sending text messages…to the kid on the other side of the room.
But, just how much do teens text?
Nielsen analyzed over 40,000 mobile phone bills of USA teens to determine their texting habits. The research firm found that American teens send an average of 10 text [...]
NBC’s Olympics Mobile platform amassed 54.3 million page views in the first ten days of the Olympics. For the Beijing games, the entire total for the 17-day event was 34.7 million. 1.3 million of those page views have been in the form of mobile streams.
NBC has to be happy. This is now the most watched [...]
No, by all accounts Tiger Woods still trails Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain in the category of most lifetimes sexual partners, but he broke another major record yesterday.
ESPN Mobile logged 1.1 million page views of news surrounding Woods on its mobile web site as the golfer gave his scripted apology. It was the biggest mobile video [...]
by Bob Bentz
Nearly two years ago, this author wrote in this publication that John McCain just didn’t get it.
John McCain had just told a reporter during the presidential campaign that when it comes to computers: “I am an illiterate who has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance that I can [...]
It’s one of those inappropriate comments that Michael Scott (Steve Carell) is known for on “The Office.” And, it’s so inappropriate, especially in a business setting, that you have to laugh…every time.
“That’s what she said.”
NBC is banking on text messages to promote The Office syndication schedule by launching a text message sweepstakes based on Scott’s [...]
Previous posts on the Text Message Blog have discussed text message breakups and sexting by Tiger Woods and just ordinary people.
In this video, Katie Couric reports on text message break ups and the massive amount of text messages that are being sent today.
Over one in five teens admit to sexting — the sending of salacious text messages or photos via cell phone.
One in three teens say they have received a sexting message. This is not surprising given the viral effect of such messages.
Katie Couric talks about text messaging and driving. Be sure to have your teen driver watch this.
Dirty text messages are not just something that Tiger Woods does! Apparently, John Mayer is into sexting
as well.
“I can text whatever I want to anybody in the world; I’m not married,” said Mayer, 32. “I write a lot of dirty text messages to girls, and you’ve never seen any of them.”
Mayer goes on to say [...]
