How long until schools are organizing D.A.R.E.-like anti-addiction programs to get kids off texting? American kids under 18 send and receive roughly 2,800 texts per month, according to Nielsen, or about 93 per day. Assuming 7 hours of sleep per night, on average, that’s about 5.5 per hour spent awake, or one every 10 minutes [...]
Finn McCann and Tom Greenwood, both 23, spent the night in their sleeping bags 11,000ft up the Italian side of Mont Blanc in the Alps after being trapped by a storm on Wednesday. However, they texted the friend in their home town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, using a mobile phone that was rapidly losing its battery [...]
A group of Philippine doctors and health workers are fast-tracking their donations of free artificial limbs to poor and far-flung amputees with the help of a Philippine-made information technology that was developed for a telecommunication company, a local paper has reported.Doctors from the University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) have started to [...]
Software that has been hailed as a powerful tool in response to crisis has become accessible for low-tech activists. Ushahidi, a technology which allows users to create maps from data drawn from messages from cellphones, news reports and the Web, is now available through a Web-based application called Crowdmap. Ushahidi was built in the violent [...]
Zain Jordan has launched an SMS language translation service for text from and into the Arabic and English languages. The translation software is being provided by Sakhr Software, who already provide internet based translations. Offered for the first time in Jordan, Zain customers will benefit from the service by sending the text that needs translation [...]
BlackBerry, Droid, iPhone — no matter which smartphone you have, it’s the apps, not the features, that make your phone unique.These little applications are customized programs that help run your life when you’re on the go. They can help you with everything from counting calories to checking Facebook to finding a good happy hour. “Without [...]
