Filed under: Cell Phones One of the newest weapons in the arsenal of stalkers is text messaging. Texting has two major perks for those hell-bent on harassment: the constant attachment folks have to their cell phones and the tendency of handsets to pester their owners until unopened messages are view...

Filed under: Cell Phones digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/02/18/teen-arrested-for-texting-in-class-hides-cell-phone-in-butt/'; While it might have been a tad on the excessive side to call the police on a 14-year-old girl for texting during class, the teen in question certainly didn't help any...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers Living in the connected age -- where things like Twitter and text messaging are an accepted part of life -- is great. We're able to pass information quickly across vast distances to large amounts of people. There is the inevitable downside, though; once you get th...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers Breaking up via text message is becoming routine. We don't like it one bit, but it's a fact. MocoSpace, a mobile social network, conducted a poll of 10,000 users about their social habits, like networking and dating. They found some interesting -- and possibly dis...

Mickey Rourke is kind of a crazy, misshapen bitch and getting nods for his acting in The Wrestler has caused him to have one of his sanity strokelets again. Both Rourke and Sean Penn are reportedly Oscar contenders for their work in Milk and The Wrestler. The monster-looking dude......

Filed under: Cell Phones If you're a parent of a child who is frequently slumped over a cell phone, squinting at its tiny screen and tapping away at a small keyboard with clutched hands, you might be surprised to hear that U.K. doctors actually think the practice is a sign of good health. Yes, physi...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Cameras Apparently teens taking risqué photos of themselves is turning into a full-on epidemic. Researchers from Teenage Research Unlimited have finally put some hard numbers to the anecdotes about teens getting themselves in trouble with revealing photos. According ...

Filed under: Accessories, Gift Guides When it comes to mixing fashion and technology, it appears that designers on both fronts are rushing to team up and blur the lines -- that way they can charge $817 for a device that's probably technologically inferior to the $200 iPhone. One of the products stem...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Celebrities Don't act like you didn't know that Pope Benedict XVI was down with modern technology. As part of World Youth Day, the man himself will begin sending out texts of encouragement to pilgrims who have signed up through Telstra to receive them. A total of four gigan...

Filed under: Cellphones Don't act like you didn't know that Pope Benedict XVI was down with modern technology. As part of World Youth Day, the man himself will begin sending out texts of encouragement to pilgrims who have signed up through Telstra to receive them. A total of four gigantic "prayer wa...