text messaging

Sometimes losing a mobile phone can be a very good thing

My love of the mobile phone has extended to the bathroom. Like most married men, I love to sit in there for a while with a newspaper but at other times I’m likely to be tapping my touchscreen rather than turning over pages. The mobile phone is ubiquitous. We sleep with them, we keep them [...]

American Idol gave it life, but the mobile web has killed the US text messaging star

I don’t know about you, but I don’t text as much as I used to. In fact, the list of contacts on my mobile is becoming less important than the chosen people I DM on Twitter. It’s a cultural movement I wasn’t expecting as I used to text like a demon. Maybe I don’t have [...]