WHEN TEXTING TAKES OVER YOUR LIFE

Watch as lady falls into fountain while texting on the phone. This is how you know you text too much.

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TECH TUESDAY PLAYSTATION PHONE

If I liked Sony I would get this.

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DOES ANYONE USE A PHONE BOOK ANYMORE? APPARENTLY NOT

Regulators have begun granting telecommunications companies the go-ahead to stop mass-printing residential phone books, a musty fixture of Americans' kitchen counters, refrigerator tops and junk drawers.

In the past month alone, New York, Florida and Pennsylvania approved Verizon Communications Inc.'s request to quit distributing residential white pages. Residents in Virginia have until Nov. 19 to provide comments on a similar request pending with state regulators.
Telephone companies argue that most consumers now check the Internet rather than flip through pages when they want to reach out and touch someone.
Phone companies note that eliminating residential white pages would reduce environmental impact by using less paper and ink. It also can't hurt their bottom lines to cut out the cost of a service that rarely gets used and generates little beyond nostalgia.

The first telephone directory was issued in February 1878 — a single page that covered 50 customers in New Haven, Conn. That sheet grew into a book that became virtually a household appliance, listing numbers for neighbors, friends and colleagues, not to mention countless potential victims of prank calls.
Fewer people rely on paper directories for a variety of reasons: more people rely solely on cell phones, whose numbers typically aren't included in the listings; more listings are available online; and mobile phones and caller ID systems on land lines can store a large number of frequently called numbers
well goodbye phone books, now what am I going to do with all that paper.

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Chad Ochocinco wants you to have breakfast and sex in the morning. No not really but the phone number on his cereal box is supposed to connect callers to Feed the Children, which benefits from sales of the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver’s cereal. But the box has the wrong toll-free prefix, meaning callers get a seductive-sounding woman who makes risque suggestions and then asks for a credit card number.
Well I think someone will get fired over this.

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THE WHITE HOUSE HAS AN APP FOR THAT

Love everything about the white House, well there is an app for that. The White House as a free iphone/ipod touch application. It keeps you uo to date with the latest photos and press releases from the head guy in charge. May be cool if it is up to date. May even be cooler if they gave you sneek peeks or inside scoops before the mainstream media gets it.  To download click here.

via: thelifefiles

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