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Grisly Don't-Text-and-Drive Ad Comes to US

UK mini-movie to be edited to 30 seconds

(Newser) - A blood-soaked UK ad warning of the consequences of driving while texting has made its way stateside, albeit in a highly edited form. The original ad clocks in at four minutes, showing in slow, excruciating detail the results of a fictionalized three-car crash. There's a lot of blood, dead teenagers,...

Apps Prevent Your Kid From Doing This

Program locks up phones when they're in motion

(Newser) - If you're desperate to stop your teenager from becoming the latest moron to crash their car while texting someone, rest easy; technology is here to help. A wave of clever new apps make it physically impossible to use your phone while driving, reports David Pogue of the New York Times...

'Text Rage' Sparked Vicious Teen Beating

Boy taunted about brother's suicide attacks girl

(Newser) - Florida police are citing "text rage" as the trigger in a savage beating of a teenage girl after she sent her attacker a vicious cell phone message. Josie Lou Ratley, 15, is in a medically induced coma to relieve swelling on her brain after she was repeatedly kicked in...

Tiger Woods: Great Golfer, Lousy Sexter

Great athlete is as lame as everyone else at virtual pillow talk

(Newser) - The sexts Joslyn James says Tiger Woods sent her have been released , and they certainly reveal that the golfer is “a nasty freak.” But “the real sticking point here is that he can't spell,” writes Mary Elizabeth Williams. “When Woods writes, 'I know you have...

Porn Star to Post Tiger Emails
 Porn Star to Post Tiger Emails 
will it ever end?
Mar 19, 2010 10:38 AM CDT

Porn Star to Post Tiger Emails

Joslyn James explains reasoning behind Woods website

(Newser) - Oh, she’s not done: Joslyn James is releasing even more evidence of her affair with Tiger Woods on her website today. This time, the porn star will release emails detailing how a good friend of Woods—who also allegedly coordinated a meeting between Tiger and mistress No. 1, Rachel...

Porn Star Reveals Tiger Texts

 Porn Star Reveals 
 Tiger Texts 

UPDATED
Mar 18, 2010 10:18 AM CDT

Porn Star Reveals Tiger Texts

Joslyn James has her own classy domain name and everything

(Newser) - It's here: Porn star and alleged Tiger Woods mistress Joslyn James debuted her new website, which includes all sorts of fun messages from the golfer. If you just don't feel comfortable typing www.sextingjoslynjames.com into your browser window, allow us to hit some of the (less disgusting) highlights:
  • I
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8th-Grader Sells Nude Sext of Girlfriend
 8th-Grader Sells 
 Nude Sext of Girlfriend 
CHILD PORN?
Mar 9, 2010 6:11 AM CST

8th-Grader Sells Nude Sext of Girlfriend

He passes out pix for $5 to pals

(Newser) - A Massachusetts middle school is caught in a sexting scandal after an 8th-grade boy allegedly sold naked pictures of his girlfriend to fellow students for $5 a pop. Since the girl is only in 8th grade, the photo she sexted of herself and her beau's financial transactions may violate child...

Dead Teens' Final Texts Star in New Ad Campaign
Dead Teens' Final Texts Star in New Ad Campaign
don't text and drive
Mar 8, 2010 8:13 AM CST

Dead Teens' Final Texts Star in New Ad Campaign

Campaign pushes to stop texting while behind the wheel

(Newser) - "No text is worth dying over" is the message of a new campaign to stop young drivers from texting behind the wheel. The campaign, being launched today by AT&T, features parents of teenagers who died texting, like 18-year-old Mariah West, who flipped her car into oncoming traffic while...

'TigerText' iPhone App Bails Out Philanderers

App automatically deletes text—or sext—message trail

(Newser) - Tiger Woods probably wishes he’d had TigerText, a new iPhone app that automatically deletes sensitive text messages and cleans up cellphone call records. When a user sends a TigerText, it resides on the company’s servers. After the recipient reads the message, the system deletes it immediately, 5 days...

Porn Star Bares 100 Tiger Sexts
 Porn Star Bares 100 Tiger Sexts 
'YOU PLEASE ME LIKE NO OTHER HAS'
Feb 4, 2010 10:53 AM CST

Porn Star Bares 100 Tiger Sexts

Joslyn James says she's reacting to company marketing mistress golf balls

(Newser) - More tawdry texts from Tiger Woods: "You please me like no other has or ever will," Woods wrote to porn star Joslyn James last October. "I am not losing that." James released about 100 sexts from the golfer at a press conference yesterday with celebu-lawyer Gloria...

Biggest Ripoffs in US
 Biggest Ripoffs in US 
Feb 2, 2010 5:58 PM CST

Biggest Ripoffs in US

Phone texts, movie popcorn, and textbooks are overpriced

(Newser) - Text messages may be the biggest ripoff in America. It costs 1/3 of a cent for carriers to send a message, but they can hit you with a 20-cent charge on pay-per-text plans. That's a markup of 6,500%. More bad deals from CNNMoney :
  • Movie popcorn, 900%: No surprise here,
...

Feds Ban Texting by Truck, Bus Drivers

Under rules, effective immediately, fines run as high as $2,750

(Newser) - Drivers of trucks and buses who text behind the wheel will be subject to thousands of dollars in fines, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today. The federal prohibition, which takes effect immediately, applies only to commercial vehicles. But distracted driving is one of LaHood's top issues, CNN reports. "This...

Valentine Fave Gets Updated Messages

This year, Sweethearts adds 'text me' and 'tweet me'

(Newser) - Sweethearts are a time-honored part of Valentine’s Day, but there are a pair of up-to-the-moment additions to the messages we’re used to seeing on the heart-shaped candies: “text me” and “tweet me.” The new phrases won online voting, and replace the likes of “...

RIP Ringtones: $1B Industry Bites the Dust
 RIP Ringtones: 
 $1B Industry 
 Bites the Dust 


texting trumps calling
Jan 18, 2010 10:55 AM CST

RIP Ringtones: $1B Industry Bites the Dust

Who wants to talk on their phone anymore?

(Newser) - The ringtone industry, which just two years ago was raking in $1 billion annually, will be dead and gone by 2016, analysts predict. Revenue is already plummeting—to about $750 million this year—for one obvious reason: Phones don’t ring very often anymore. “People used to talk on...

Red Cross Pulls in $8M In Text Message Donations
 Red Cross Pulls in $8M In Text Message Donations 
haiti earthquake
Jan 15, 2010 12:01 PM CST

Red Cross Pulls in $8M In Text Message Donations

Relief agency says it can handle more cash for earthquake aid

(Newser) - Text messaging has proven to be a wildly popular method of donating to the relief effort in Haiti. As of 8:25 this morning, the Red Cross had pulled in more than $8 million through text messages, Fox News reports. That’s the most mobile donations “that we have...

$2M Texted to Help Haiti
 $2M Texted to Help Haiti 

Jan 14, 2010 6:36 AM CST

$2M Texted to Help Haiti

Red Cross, mGive organize cell phone relief effort

(Newser) - Americans have donated over $2 million toward Haitian relief efforts through what organizers say is the biggest cell phone donation campaign ever mobilized. Anybody with a cell phone account with a major carrier can donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting "Haiti" to the number 90999. The donation...

Get Punxsutawney Phil's Prediction Via Text
Get Punxsutawney Phil's Prediction Via Text
GROUNDHOG DAY, 2010
Jan 13, 2010 9:13 PM CST

Get Punxsutawney Phil's Prediction Via Text

Yep, from groundhog's mouth to your phone on Feb. 2

(Newser) - If you’ve got Groundhog Day circled on your calendar but won’t be able to catch Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction in person, the rodent’s got you covered: Come Feb. 2, you can get the news—an early spring, or six more weeks of winter—via text message. And...

America's Got Texting Fever: Census

Number of messages sent doubled in 2008

(Newser) - Text messaging has taken the nation by storm, with the number of messages sent doubling between 2007 and 2008, according to a new Census Bureau report. Americans hit send 110 billion times in December 2008, up from 48 billion in December 2007, the bureau says in its annual “statistical...

Supreme Court Takes Text Message Privacy Case

Police Sgt. Jeff Quon's case goes before high court

(Newser) - The US Supreme Court will take a case that could decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from company accounts, the justices said today. They will review a federal appeals court ruling that sided with California police officers who complained that their department improperly snooped on...

Cheaters, Beware Your E-Trail
 Cheaters, Beware Your E-Trail 
Dec 9, 2009 9:27 AM CST

Cheaters, Beware Your E-Trail

How could Tiger Woods be stupid enough to text his alleged mistresses?

(Newser) - If Tiger Woods really did send flirty text messages to Jaimee Grubbs as she claims, then he’s a moron. Did he miss the John Ensign scandal? Or the Kwame Kilpatrick one? Or heck, Puck’s sexting incident on Glee? Digital missives brought down all three. Of course, it’s...

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