A woman police constable was suspended in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district on Friday for allegedly hurling a shoe at a senior police official who had been sending her vulgar SMSes, police said. ...
10:40 PM, Jan 04, 2013
An Assistant Commissioner of Police has been booked for allegedly sending lewd text messages to a woman constable, police said on Saturday. ACP Sandeep Bhajibhakare, who was recently transferred to Ratnagiri district from Aurangabad, has been booked under section 509 of the IPC (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) on the charge of sending indecent and lewd SMSes to the woman constable, police said....
09:44 PM, Dec 29, 2012
More than 600 parents in China's eastern Zhejiang province were shocked and furious to receive a text message from their children's school calling pupils "a piece of s**t." ...
01:10 PM, Dec 22, 2012
"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author George Frederick Will once said. As the short messaging service, or SMS turns 20, it has swept aside in two decades known conventions about courtesy, relationship, language and communication. It troubles linguists that SMS has made deep inroads in language and unfastened from the root the basics on which any language stands. Take...
09:06 AM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: "Merry Christmas" said the first SMS that was sent out 20 years ago. Two decades and trillions of SMSs later, fewer people will wish their family and friends "Merry Christmas" via an SMS compared to the year before. The humble 160-character Short Message Service may have been revolutionary, but like many revolutions this too is in the process of being overtaken along the evolutionary path and the SMS...
03:09 PM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: SMS (Short Message Service), that is now used more frequently than voice calling on mobile phones completes two decades of its existence on December 3. Today more than two lakh SMSs are sent every second, but this 160-character craze began when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old British engineer, sent the first text message via Vodafone's UK network to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone. The message said, "Merry Chistmas." There...
07:14 AM, Dec 03, 2012
London: Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a study by a US university. The emoticons, which began as happy and sad faces, have developed into dozens of other expressions, and have become hugely popular in text messages and email. The study by Rice University used smartphone data from men and women over six months and analysed 124,000 text messages, the Daily...
10:53 AM, Oct 14, 2012
London: A 41-year-old woman school teacher in Britain has been banned from teaching for two years after she sent over 600 text messages to a pupil, where she told him she will love him forever and that she wanted to give him a hug and a kiss. Teresa McKenzie, a mother of two, was found guilty by a professional panel of unacceptable conduct with the then 16-year-old student, The Sun...
06:43 PM, Oct 12, 2012
London: Scientists have developed a new app which will help parents decipher the modern-day text message lingo their kid uses. TextGenie, a new app created by a UK-based software solutions company, DCML deciphers text language and slang from incoming SMS messages and translates them into plain English for confused parents, The Telegraph reported. Research by DCML claimed that 84 per cent of parents with teenagers admit to receiving text messages...
03:40 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New York: A 17-year-old boy who says he has "abnormally fast thumbs" has been named the fastest texter in America for the second year in a row. "It feels incredible," said Austin Wierschke of Rhinelander, Wis., after winning the sixth annual US LG National Texting Competition in Times Square on Wednesday. He gets $ 50,000 in prize money, which he says he'll save and use to pay for college, along...
11:02 AM, Aug 09, 2012
New York: A growing number of US kids say they have been picked on via text messaging, while there has been little change in online harassment, researchers reported Monday. Of more than 1,100 middle school and high school students surveyed in 2008, 24 per cent said they had ever been "harassed" by texting. That was up from about 14 per cent in a survey of the same kids the year...
11:41 AM, Nov 22, 2011
A recent study has confirmed that today's teenagers are addicted to text messages so much so that they exchange almost 200-300 texts every day. ...
03:53 PM, Aug 24, 2010
'Sexting' has become a concern for parents and schools internationally . ...
02:11 PM, May 04, 2009
