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New Phone Plan For Heavy Texters Launching Next Week With Virgin

Sprint will charge $25 a month for its new plan, Beyond Talk, debuting next week, which will offer unlimited texting and web browsing but just 300 minutes of calls a month. [Reuters] UPDATE: It’ll be under Sprint’s Virgin Mobile brand.

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 6

Great Sexts Through History

Sexting may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, but in truth it’s as old as mankind itself. Here’s a walk back through the illustrious history of the SMS booty call: Marilyn Monroe to JFK Pierre Curie to Marie Curie Elizabeth Bennet to Mr. Darcy Anon. to the Marquis de Sade Romeo to Juliet Guinevere to…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 14

Survey Shows Half of Phone Break-Ups Are Texted

It’s an admittedly small sample size from a start-up social network, but even so: that’s ice cold. MocoSpace surveyed 20,000 of its 10.3 million members, and found that SMS is the weapon of choice for 47% of phone break-ups. Other disheartening statistics gleaned from the study: a third of MocoSpace users have used their phone…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 11

Man Dumped Over Sexts Pre-Loaded In His Phone

A Winnipeg man has been dumped by his girlfriend of two and a half years, after she found his phone riddled with sext messages. Only problem? He didn’t write any of them. Virgin Mobile did. Apparently the cheeky monkeys over at Virgin Mobile had pre-loaded a number of suggestive text messages into at least one…

Gadgets Brian Barrett Feb 10

Time-Traveling Windows Mobile Year 2016 Texts Are a Bug, Not a Feature

Sorry to burst your warp bubble, bucko, but that text message you received the other day from a cellphone user in the year 2016 was just some stupid bug. According to non-official sources (MS has yet to comment), some mobile users are receiving text messages sent after 1/1/2010 dated as though they were sent from…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 3

The End Of Humanity Nears: Website Sends Your Drunk Texts To Aliens

A website is sending text messages, submitted to their website, straight to Gliese 581d, a planet 20 light years away. Judging by the genius submissions they’ve already received, if these texts ever actually reach intelligent life, our world is doomed. Hello From Earth encourages anyone to submit their thoughts to the aliens, via text. So…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 14

Question of the Day: Do You Text While Driving?

Man, people really laid into me for texting while driving as a part of reviewing the N97. It’s unsafe, no doubt, but the reality is, people do it. Do you? https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n97-review-nokia-is-doomed-5308440 Have you ever texted while driving?(answers) Do you text while driving?(polls) Have you ever caused an accident because you were texting while driving?(answers) Image:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 6

AT&T Testing the Waters with American Idol Spam Texts

AT&T is the first cellphone carrier to begin spamming its customers with text ads. It recently sent texts advertising American Idol to a “significant number” of its customers. Stop right there, AT&T. Obviously, this is a terrible, terrible idea. The company defended itself by saying that the texts were free and that people could easily…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 15

NYT: Text Messages Are an Even Bigger Ripoff Than You Thought

We all know that text messaging is overpriced, but the NYT has pulled back the technological shroud to find out that the prices aren’t just bad, they’re practically extortionate. The article goes into depth about how text messages are transmitted. In short, texts are unsurprisingly transmitted between towers over the main, wired network in the…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 29

Virgin Mobile Lets You Send Texts to Nobody, Charges For Confirmation

Virgin Mobile has a new service that allows its customers to send text messages into space, with a “formal confirmation” costing $15. Yes, sending text messages to nobody in particular, allowing them to travel out in some random direction and end up in space, is the hot new thing. You know, because aliens will know…

Tech News Adam Frucci Dec 10

Democrats Still Most Tech Savvy, Rent Digital Billboard to Text Message Sarah Palin at Rally

Click to viewNeed more evidence that Democrats are more grassroots tech savvy than their elephantine counterparts? At a Sarah Palin rally in LA on Saturday, the California Democratic party rented a digital billboard across the street which displayed questions for the veep candiate sent by text message. Granted, even if Palin did read them, she…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7

B&D Messenger Helps the Blind Read SMS

The B&D messenger, designed by Okada Noriaki, bills itself as a way for both blind and deaf people to communicate via text message. Though there are several Braille phone products already in the market, Noriaki device is much smaller in size and pretty inexpensive. On one side of the gadget is twelve points that rise…

Tech News Elaine Chow Aug 23

T-Mobile Raises Text Message Prices (Meaning You Can Ditch Your Contract)

T-Mobile is hiking its SMS rate to 20 cents a text (up from 15), effective Aug. 29. Annoying, unless you want to get out of your T-Mobile contract. Raising prices is typically considered a material breach of contract, meaning you can weasel out of it with a bit of elbow grease and persistence (to show…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 1

How to Cover Your Text Message Tracks

It’s Friday, so the mass of stupid and regrettable (and maybe criminal) text messages you wished you never sent is about explode exponentially, as it does every weekend. Google, as you know, keeps your embarrassing search history for “AZN Squirrels Pooping on Bananas” or “Iron Man upskirt” for 18 months. But how long do Verizon…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 2

New Phone Plan For Heavy Texters Launching Next Week With Virgin

Great Sexts Through History

Survey Shows Half of Phone Break-Ups Are Texted

Man Dumped Over Sexts Pre-Loaded In His Phone

Time-Traveling Windows Mobile Year 2016 Texts Are a Bug, Not a Feature

The End Of Humanity Nears: Website Sends Your Drunk Texts To Aliens

Question of the Day: Do You Text While Driving?

AT&T Testing the Waters with American Idol Spam Texts

NYT: Text Messages Are an Even Bigger Ripoff Than You Thought

Virgin Mobile Lets You Send Texts to Nobody, Charges For Confirmation

Democrats Still Most Tech Savvy, Rent Digital Billboard to Text Message Sarah Palin at Rally

B&D Messenger Helps the Blind Read SMS

T-Mobile Raises Text Message Prices (Meaning You Can Ditch Your Contract)

How to Cover Your Text Message Tracks

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