photo credit: Give It a Ponder

LG is sponsoring PSA ads on YouTube to influence teens who are sexting. The theme of these ads is to “Stop and Think” before sending that sexting. The ads also concentrate their efforts on mean rumor texting. (See the ads at Give It a Ponder.)

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What is SEXTING? It is a coined word for sending text messages with sexual content, be it text or images, that will soon be showing up in the dictionary. Sexting is a sign of the technology affecting our society, for good or bad. Without being judgmental, technology affects all of our daily lives. Sexting is just one more example of how technology permeates our awareness.

photo credit: Safe Sexting

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photo credit: Government Accountability Office Study

According to a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, 42% of mobile users won’t switch carriers due to the outrageous early termination fees (ETF). According to the report, even when mobile users are somewhat or very dissatisfied with their cell phone provider, the cost of early termination keeps them locked into the contract. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Army goes mobile

With the approval of Smart Phones, the Army is implementing the Go Mobile program to let their soldiers access the Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online (AKO/DKO) portals. The conferencing devices are affordable as well as small enough to fit into the soldiers’ pockets. Read the rest of this entry »

Vanity or stupidity? As a woman was walking home from a train station near her home in Olney, Maryland, she was accosted by an unknown man, heard a click and felt a gun pressed to her neck. The robber demanded she drop her purse, leave and not look back. She did exactly that and left unharmed. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Google Nexus One Droid Phone

Google, Inc. will begin selling its new Nexus One cell phone in 2010. In the beginning, the phone will be sold without being tied to any ONE cell phone provider. The downside is that by being an “unlocked” cell phone, the cost of the device will no doubt be pretty pricey. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: BABY FOR SALE

China Global reported that a young Chinese couple sold their 6 day old son for $366. Then they used the money to buy a new cell phone. If that wasn’t bad enough, the father then tried to re-sell the boy for four times the original price. Read the rest of this entry »

Japanese humor or Quentin Tarantino’s own brand of humor? In his new cell phone ad for Softbank, Tarantino gives us multi-cultural family with a dog playing the father to advertise a plastic dog speaker attachment for a cell phone. Watch the video clip and see for yourself.
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There’s a new software application named TipSoft that allows you to report crimes anonymously via text messaging. The obvious target market is the texting generation who already live by their thumbs. This same group also witnesses more crimes than the average middle aged person, so the idea is have them help law enforcement agencies by anonymous reporting.

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The latest and greatest idea for free energy is the harnessing of the air turbulence created in the wake of your moving vehicle. The experimental device takes advantage of the air flowing past your vehicle as you speed down the road. Apparently the motion creates an energy vortex that can be stored and used as a clean alternative source of energy.

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