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Five things you should never do on Facebook (or anywhere else)

Posted March 29, 2012 - 2:19 pm

What you say and do online can land you in divorce court, the unemployment line, or prison. Check out these five real-life tales of social media woe.
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Is NTSB call for ban on electronics for drivers realistic?

Posted December 14, 2011 - 12:11 am

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that all states ban the use of electronic devices while driving. Good luck with that.
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Which group of Americans texts the most?

Posted September 19, 2011 - 6:08 pm

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. cell phone owners regularly send and receive text messages.
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Texter tossed from Texas theater unwittingly stars in PSA

Posted June 13, 2011 - 5:15 pm

Don't think she didn't have it coming. She was warned. Twice.
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Young are addicted to Internet like fish are addicted to water

Posted April 8, 2011 - 2:22 pm

Calling the under-25 crowd 'addicted' to digital media misses the point; they're better, more consistent, more frequent communicators than those of us who grew up IRL. Miss that point and you'll never keep up with them.
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Group texting may be IT's next headache

Posted March 15, 2011 - 5:55 pm

Group texting is free, easy and familiar; users will looove it, often avoiding systems built to comply with rules that specifically require text-tracking.
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Woman who fell in fountain while texting may sue over video

Posted January 21, 2011 - 5:24 pm

An overnight sensation for an elegant headfirst fall into a fountain, Cathy Marrero's humiliation must be greater after posing for photo in local paper.
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'Back in my day, we'd walk 7 miles barefoot in the snow to check our email -- and we used dial-up!'

Posted December 22, 2010 - 3:29 pm

The New York Times Bits Blog has some interesting demographic data from research firm comScore that should confirm the suspicions of anyone with teens at home -- email is for old people.
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Texting while driving bans don’t work, may actually hurt, study finds

Posted September 28, 2010 - 9:47 am

As more states ban the practice – Massachusetts will become the 31st to do so on Thursday – new research from the insurance industry claims that the prohibition of texting while driving does not reduce auto crashes … and may actually increase them.
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T-Mobile rumored to impose SMS toll on businesses

Posted September 15, 2010 - 5:58 pm

We'll see if this actually happens -- and I'm not convinced it will, for reasons I'll get into below -- but according to an article in GigaOM, carrier T-Mobile USA intends to implement a toll on businesses of up to one cent per text message sent to their customers. The "Twitter tax" is slated to begin on Oct. 1, writes GigaOM's Colin Gibbs.
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Texting while biking also dangerous

Posted August 4, 2010 - 5:20 pm

Sure, you can't do as much damage texting while cycling as you can texting while driving -- but that's only because you're operating a smaller vehicle. But a teenage cyclist in Ontario managed to do quite a bit of damage, and earn himself a ticket to boot.
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Brits can't seem to send texts to the right people

Posted July 20, 2010 - 6:50 pm

10% of British cell phone users -- 43% of those under 25 -- have sent a sexy text message to someone other than the intended recipient.
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Texting While Driving More Common With Adults Than Teens

Posted June 21, 2010 - 1:53 pm

Adults are guilty of the dangerous activity of texting while driving more often than teenagers, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The Pew study also revealed that adults are substantially more likely to talk on a cell phone while driving than teenagers.
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How the Brain Works: Driving, Cell Phones and Cognitive Abilities

Posted October 20, 2009 - 4:03 pm

Is talking on a cell phone while driving dangerous? Here are some figures.
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How the Brain Works: Multitasking and Multitaskers- More Means Less

Posted October 20, 2009 - 3:53 pm

Today, multitasking seems to be the norm, but recent studies show that heavy multitaskers perform below average.
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U.S. Cell Phone Carriers Screwing Us Five Times Over

Posted August 18, 2009 - 11:28 am

Tired of feeling second rate because Europe and Asia has faster Internet service for less money? Then don't look at your cell phone, because DSL Reports' story, Consumers in U.S., Canada Pay More for Wireless, describes how US cell phone carriers charge us five times more than they charge Europeans. Except the Spanish, the unlucky European country that gets charged American rates for some reason.
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Texting makes kids rash and error prone but maybe also thinner

Posted August 11, 2009 - 9:42 pm

"We suspect that using mobile phones a lot, particularly tools like predictive texts for SMS, is training them to be fast but inaccurate," says Professor Michael Abramson, an epidemiologist at Monash University in Australia who studied the performance of prolific texters, aged 11 to 14, on IQ-type tests.
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Distracted driver game proves perils of texting

Posted July 20, 2009 - 4:27 pm

Not being a texter, I have no idea how distracting it is or how dangerous, but that doesn't stop me from shaking my head with disapproval when I pass a texting driver. Well, thanks to NYTimes.com and their distracted driver game, all of us non-texters can now shake our heads knowingly.
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