News tagged with text
Texting has rewired your brain
(Medical Xpress) -- Do you know what the numbers 5683 and 3327 mean? According to a recent study, if you are a person who frequently sends text messages, your brain knows what these numbers mean and is unconsciously influencing ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Mobile-security services take off
The prospect of consumers and employees physically losing information-packed mobile devices, or getting them hacked, has become the driver for a red-hot sector of the tech industry: supplying mobile security.
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Information technologies foster freedom or reinforce repression
The media may portray text messaging and social networks as powerful new weapons for freedom fighters, but these new communication tools may not be as uniformly beneficial or as robust as suggested, according to Penn State ...
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Medical prize honors discoverer of malarial drug
(AP) -- A scientist who discovered a powerful malaria drug and two others who illuminated how proteins fold within cells have won prestigious medical awards.
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Kindle lets readers fire off questions to authors
Amazon on Thursday launched a test version of Kindle software that lets readers fire off questions to authors in text messages sent from the popular electronic book readers.
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Report shows more US farmers relying on Internet
(AP) -- Think of farms and images of tractors and combines come to mind. But what about laptops, smart phones and tablets?
Aug 26, 2011 |
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SF area transit agency to discuss wireless policy
(AP) -- The transit agency in the San Francisco Bay area hopes to ease tensions with a public meeting over whether there should be a policy on cutting wireless access to its stations during protests.
Aug 24, 2011 |
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Texting, grand theft auto style; alarms pose risk
Texting and driving don't go well together - though not in the way you might think.
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Transit agency head defends cell service shutoff
(AP) -- The head of the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency is defending the system's move to cut wireless service to thwart a planned protest last week. But he says the tactic likely won't be used again.
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Concert experiments with all-mobile ticketing
(AP) -- A recent concert featuring the dance duo LMFAO and rapper/producer Swizz Beatz seemed like a typical summer concert. But the fans who attended were actually taking part in an experiment in mobile ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Some families have taken steps to avoid feeling overwhelmed by communications technologies, study shows
An international study, led by Anna Mieczakowski, Tanya Goldhaber and Professor John Clarkson at the Engineering Design Centre (EDC) here at the Department of Engineering, has found that one in three people in the UK has ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Facebook launches mobile messaging app
Facebook launched a mobile messaging application Tuesday for Apple's iPhone and Android devices.
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Research grant combines astrophysics and archeology to decipher ancient texts
Lucy Fortson, an astrophysicist and Associate Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota is part of a collaboration called Ancientlives which has received a grant to ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Pinger bringing free text messaging to Europe
Silicon Valley startup Pinger on Wednesday said it will expand into Europe with a German service for free text messaging using Apple or Android-powered gadgets.
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Latino teens key for campaigns reaching out to immigrant families, study finds
Latino adolescents who share knowledge from the classroom, new media and information technology among immigrant families function as "civic information leaders," a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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