An iPhone user says he sent and received 662,258 text messages within a one month span, which landed him a nice 13,000-page monthly bill from AT&T.
The user, calling himself “Lgvoyagerguy” on YouTube, uploaded a 5-minute video in which he amasses the proof of his incredible feat, which he says is a record.
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California’s Skyline College campus is on lockdown Wednesday evening while police are searching for a suspect who shot and wounded one student.
According to Leslie Shelton, director of the school’s learning center in San Bruno, a student entered her building about 1pm PDT (4pm EDT) and was bleeding from a gunshot wound.
She says police are searching [...]

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The new British texting-while-driving PSA is disturbing.  In fact, you probably shouldn’t watch this video if you don’t want to be scarred for life.
The video depicts a carload full of teenage girls, merrily enjoying their day, until the driver tries to send a text message.
The initial accident is brutal enough, then there is a second [...]

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UPDATE: It gets better.  There is now video circulating of a Metro operator sleeping on the job as well.
This is not the kind of P.R. the Washington DC Metro would wants right now.
A video has surfaced on YouTube showing a DC Metro train operator text messaging while operating a train. This is clearly a [...]

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If you’ve got kids, you need to read this.  NetLingo has just issued a list of the top 50 text acronyms that teens (and pre-teens…scary!) are using when communicating with one another, either by cell phone or chat room.
You need to know what these mean.  Here is the list…

1
8
Oral sex

2
1337
Elite

3
143
I love you

4
182
I hate you

5
459
I love [...]

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A new study shows that 1 in 4 people in the U.S. text while driving.
The survey was done by Vlingo. There were 4,800 participants.
Only a few states currently ban texting while driving, including Washington state and New Jersey (and soon to be Maryland).
So what’s the big deal?  Really, I can text and drive…no problem at [...]

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Someone just got grounded for life.
Gregg and Jaylene Christoffersen’s daughter, Dena, got a little overzealous with regard to her text-messaging habit. It seems her parents thought that the feature had been disabled on their daughter’s cell. It wasn’t.
Verizon sent them a bill for for $4,756.25.
During the time that Dena went through her text-messaging [...]

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