We focus so much on smartphones and their applications these days, we tend to overlook the large number of individuals out there that haven’t made the switch to constantly-connected phones. In an effort to give those users a way to take advantage of Twitter’s features, the company announced that pictures can now be posted to Twitter by way of SMS.

When my phone rings I generally cringe, not because I am hiding from anyone or expecting any bad news, I simply do not like to talk on the phone. Me personally, I would much rather get an email or text message instead of a phone call. Or even a Facebook message would be a better more »

With the Verizon iPhone looming in the distance, it looks like AT&T is trying to more directly competer with it’s biggest rival. That means changes are coming, maybe not huge changes, but changes nonetheless. According to a leaked image obtained by Gear Live, AT&T plans on changing up it’s SMS rates to be more in more »

Recently, we reported on how the OpenTable Beta version has made it possible to set up a reservation at your nearest restaurant, however it would appear that restaurant reservations aren’t the only thing that have been updated for mobile technology.

Police departments in Boston, Cincinnati, and 100 other communities have adopted a text message tip-line. So if someone sees a crime being committed, all it would take is a dropped line to alert the authorities.

So far, this new department system has produced “great drug information, specific times, dates, names of suspects, locations, pick-up times, and license plate numbers”.

In an attempt to alleviate customer complaints about unwanted messaging charges, T-Mobile has added phone number-level blocking to its My T-Mobile service. The service empowers users to prevent certain numbers from sending SMS messages and even emailing your @tmomail address by adding filters to incoming messages. Additional privacy features are also in the works, which more »

Following cocaine overdose deaths of two college students in February and May, authorities have arrested scores of San Diego State University students in a drug bust that caught fraternity members openly dealing drugs. The bust, dubbed Operation Sudden Fall, yielded two kilograms of cocaine, 350 Ecstasy pills, hash oil, marijuana, methamphetamine, illicit prescription drugs, psychedelic mushrooms, several guns and at least $60,000 in cash.

Seventy five out of the 90 people arrested were students. Among them was an undergraduate about to receive a criminal justice degree and another who was gunning for a master’s degree in homeland security. Ralph Partridge, a DEA special agent in San Diego, quipped: