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Happy birthday, SMS! Today marks the 28th birthday of the SMS aka the Short Message Service, the way GSM phones used…

You already know that texting and driving is against the law, but for a few years now cities across the US have…

Ninety-five percent of college educated individuals read at a rate between 200-400 words per minute according to…

Half the time I send an emoticon I have no idea what the person on the other end is actually seeing. Which may…

Pixelation is great for hiding faces and covering up nakedness, but it's not good for disguising text. It's so bad,…

I love Wikipedia, but too often the articles are just not that easy to read. It's not that my English isn't good…

Braille was invented by a nineteenth century man named Louis Braille, who was completely blind.

Encoding symbols and characters in digital form is fairly easy—but making sure that everyone in the world is doing…

Spot a typo on the Internet? Get your pitchforks, saddle up the horses, write to your Congressman and raise hell…

Shocking no one, or very very few people, Google turned off its SMS search service on Friday. Reports of the outage…

At this point, one of the last things keeping most people from composing all their notes in digital form is that…

Communicating in plain text can be really tough; it just doesn't allow the subtlety, nuance and level of emotion…

Nuance is reportedly acquiring Swype, the company behind the popular keyboard alternative for Android. The purchase…

Want to know why cell networks got clogged and choked during the earthquake? A one minute phone call is 460,800%…

How horrible it is to be a 911 operator? You have to answer calls from screaming/injured/angry/crazy/dying people…

Here's one reason to continue paying $10 a month for your texting plan. ER Texting, Inc has a service that sends…

Carries can't continue capping data when text messages are slowing off. They just can't. Even though it's not even…

So, it looks like Apple may have unleashed its iMesssage app without telling its carrier partners. If true, Apple…

Hey… blah blah blah, do something next week, okay… all right. Looks good. I didn't misspell anything. We're good to…