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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Weekend Update: 10.10.09–The Textplosion Edition

Sometimes life’s irony smacks you in the face. Sometimes BoomTown smacks you with it instead.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

This Just In From the N.S. Sherlock Institute for the Bleeding Obvious…

duh-hotel…drivers who text while at the wheel are more likely to have accidents than those paying attention to the road ahead. In fact, according to a new $6 million dollar study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, texting while driving increases your chances of crashing by 23 times.

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Text Offenders

A new study reveals that one in four Americans drive while texting. Plus CES adds more Mac stuff.

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10 CAR PILE-UP! ROTFL!

yoursign_thumbIt’s no surprise to hear that one in four Americans drives like an idiot, but to learn that a similar percentage truly are idiots, well… I guess that’s not really a surprise either. After all, you’d have to be pretty dim to text while driving, a practice that widespread research and more than a few fatal accidents have proven to be a dangerous distraction.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Steve Jobs: Alive and Kicking

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Explain Our SMS Pricing? Sure. Space Telescope Transmission Costs x 4

If wireless providers applied the per-byte pricing scheme they use for SMS texting to other data transmitted over their cellular networks, it would cost nearly $6,000 to download a single 4 MB song. Yet the price of text messaging has doubled industrywide in the last three years. Why?

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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