Germans addicted to texting (Reuters)

Grok Headline matches for Germans addicted to texting (Reuters)

You really may be addicted to that
chocolate cake (Reuters)

You really may be addicted to that
chocolate cake (Reuters) 04/21/2004 03:38 AM
Reuters - People who say they are addicted to chocolate or pizza may not be exaggerating, U.S.-based scientists say.

Half of Germans too fat (Reuters)

Half of Germans too fat (Reuters) 04/27/2004 01:11 PM
Reuters - Half of Germany's 83 million population is overweight, according to the Federal Statistics Office, citing results of a survey of 370,000 people.

Germans go for naked dip (Reuters)

Germans go for naked dip (Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:37 PM
Reuters - Forty Germans have jumped into an ice-cold Berlin lake for their annual Christmas Day swim for good health, undeterred by floating ice chunks or water temperatures of one degree Celsius.

Germans in jams turn to sex (Reuters)

Germans in jams turn to sex (Reuters) 05/20/2004 08:32 AM
Reuters - A third of German motorists fantasise about sex when stuck in traffic while only 10 percent think of finding an alternate route, according to a motor club survey.

"Uptight" Germans can't relax (Reuters)

"Uptight" Germans can't relax (Reuters) 08/01/2004 06:59 AM
Reuters - Most Germans don't know how to relax and remain uptight even hours after leaving work, according to a survey published on Sunday.

Prost! Germans top drinkers poll
(Reuters)

Prost! Germans top drinkers poll
(Reuters) 07/21/2004 06:04 AM
Reuters - Germans are Europe's worst binge drinkers with almost one in five believing "the point of drinking is to get drunk," according to a survey.

Reality TV takes on naughty Germans
(Reuters)

Reality TV takes on naughty Germans
(Reuters) 08/06/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - A German reality television show will whip misbehaving husbands into shape in a physical and psychological battle to win back their wives, show producers say.

Many Germans want Berlin Wall back
(Reuters)

Many Germans want Berlin Wall back
(Reuters) 03/26/2005 09:04 AM
Reuters - Nearly a quarter of western Germans and 12 percent of easterners want the Berlin Wall back -- more than 15 years after the fall of the barrier that split Germany during the Cold War, according to a survey.

Germans go wild for "Pig Brother" Web
site (Reuters)

Germans go wild for "Pig Brother" Web
site (Reuters) 04/13/2004 11:19 AM
Reuters - A German Web site dubbed "Pig Brother" has attracted more than a million visitors in under two weeks with its 24-hour live Webcam coverage of a family of wild boar, the site's creators say.

Germans Go Naked, Dip Into Icy Lake for
Health (Reuters)

Germans Go Naked, Dip Into Icy Lake for
Health (Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:35 PM
Reuters - Forty Germans jumped into an ice-cold Berlin lake for their annual Christmas Day swim for good health, undeterred by floating ice chunks or water temperatures of one degree Celsius (34 degrees Fahrenheit).

Naked Germans jump in ice-cold lake
(Reuters)

Naked Germans jump in ice-cold lake
(Reuters) 12/25/2004 05:14 PM
Reuters - About 30 Germans wearing nothing more than red Santa Claus caps have leapt into a Berlin lake for their annual Christmas Day swim, a dip in the ice-cold water they believe is good for their health.

Germans pick "old Europe" as phrase of
year (Reuters)

Germans pick "old Europe" as phrase of
year (Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:40 PM
Reuters - "Old Europe" -- a term U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld used to disparage Germany and France for resisting war in Iraq -- has been named phrase of the year in Germany by a panel of language experts.

Germans win 2004 football title - for
robots (Reuters)

Germans win 2004 football title - for
robots (Reuters) 07/06/2004 08:28 AM
Reuters - German soccer fans, smarting over the nation's failure at Euro 2004, had a little to cheer this week after German teams scooped two footballing titles at the world robot championships, organisers have said.

Germans wake entire street with noisy
sex session (Reuters)

Germans wake entire street with noisy
sex session (Reuters) 08/31/2004 04:33 AM
Reuters - A pair of young lovers so annoyed their neighbours with a noisy sex session that police had to go and ask them to lower the volume.

Naked Germans Jump in Ice-Cold Lake for
Good Health (Reuters)

Naked Germans Jump in Ice-Cold Lake for
Good Health (Reuters) 12/25/2004 05:14 PM
Reuters - About 30 Germans wearing nothing more than red Santa Claus caps leapt into a Berlin lake for their annual Christmas Day swim on Saturday, a dip in the ice-cold water they believe is good for their health.

My Addicted Son

My Addicted Son 02/06/2005 12:25 AM
What can you do for a boy who has spent years living for methamphetamine? A father's story.

Addicted to challenges

Addicted to challenges 12/31/2004 06:35 AM
Express Computer India Dec 31 2004 10:55AM GMT

Addicted to Eclipse

Addicted to Eclipse 12/28/2004 09:12 AM

As much as I hate to admit it, I'm addicted to Eclipse. I'm hooked on the auto-import and auto-fix stuff that automatically imports the classes I need, adds missing methods needed to implement interfaces, and declares missing variables, fields, and even classes. And I'm hooked on the CVS client that gives me a clear view of every single file I have modified in my workspace, every incoming change, and makes it easy to override-and-commit or override-and-update. Netbeans 4.0 has come a long, long way from the old 3.X series and Creator is just awesome for JSF, but 4.0 is still not good enough to pull me away from Eclipse. There, I said it.

Unfortunately, Eclipse for Solaris/X86 is linked to Motif which makes it nearly unusable so I end up using Netbeans for most of they day, only switching to Eclipse when I need to synchronize with CVS. I actually blew a Saturday afternoon trying to get Eclipse 3.1 to build on Solaris/X86 linked to GTK. I failed, but only because I ran out of time.

GoToMeeting: Get Addicted!

GoToMeeting: Get Addicted! 03/30/2005 08:57 AM

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GoToMeeting is easy to use and takes moments to launch. Plus, it gives you the unmatched flexibility to collaborate online as much as you want for as long as you want - for one low flat rate!

Are You Addicted To Google?

Are You Addicted To Google? 12/19/2003 03:51 PM
An opinion piece from the BBC is wondering if people are addicted to Google. The premise is that Google searches are no longer as relevant as they used to be, and are increasingly cluttered with advertising. However, we all still use it everyday. In many cases, "searching the internet" and "Google" have become synonymous, and so the writer worries that we're all stuck on Google. There's a simple solution, of course: come up with a better search engine. Others are trying, and are probably thrilled with articles like this one.

No drugs for you, pal...you'll just get
addicted.

No drugs for you, pal...you'll just get
addicted. 02/17/2004 05:12 PM
DE A wants to reclassify low grade painkillers as morphine equivilants. The DEA, in all it's wisdom, has decided that the next target on the "war on drugs" is hydrocodone, the most commonly used prescription pain killer in the country. "Ah," you say..."but surely there's congressional oversight for that sort of radical change in the Drug Schedule." But you'd be wrong. Funny old world when the budget and staff keeping getting bigger and bigger and the only way they can win a battle is to chase the arthritic.

jay allen is addicted

jay allen is addicted 05/16/2004 09:11 PM
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Are you addicted to the internet?

Are you addicted to the internet? 09/24/2004 05:15 AM
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Texting without the hassle

Texting without the hassle 09/04/2004 03:21 AM
The launch of Z-text by NTS Telecom bridges the gap between email and mobile to mobile texting. [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]

Texting teens use SMS for help

Texting teens use SMS for help 09/08/2004 05:29 AM
Talking to youngsters in the language of text could increase their access to services.

Texting to help SA HIV patients

Texting to help SA HIV patients 04/13/2005 05:46 AM
Mobile phone text messaging in South Africa is used to help HIV patients with the complicated process of taking drugs.

Texting classes for over 50s

Texting classes for over 50s 07/23/2004 08:12 AM
Lessons in sending mobile phone text messages are held for a group of over 50s in Glasgow.

Are We at Year One of Texting in
Libraries? No.

Are We at Year One of Texting in
Libraries? No. 12/27/2004 12:53 AM

I'll Give You a Bell : 20 Years of the Mobile Phone

"In just two decades, the mobile phone has become the fastest-selling, most loved - and hated - consumer product. Britain is the world's most mature mobile market, with more mobiles per head of population and higher bills than any other country. Almost all adults now have at least one mobile phone, one in two teenagers has a 'moby' and a new British firm, Communic8, has just launched MyMo, a simple phone for four- to eight-year-olds. Some 23 billion texts have been sent this year and more than 20 billion calls made. The total value of this electronic white noise is £15 billion....

Perhaps the biggest change mobiles have wrought is in the language of communication we all use. Textsperanto - the amalgam of abbreviated words, acronyms and coded punctuation that teenagers developed so that they can fit more words into their space-limited SMS messages - was designed to be impenetrable to adults but most of us have a grasp of it now. When a pupil at a Scottish secondary school handed in an essay entirely written 'in txt', her teacher gave her a 'C+ 4 e4t'....

For the refuseniks, however, the battle against the tiny power tools is about to get a lot tougher. Twenty years after Ernie Wise first pressed the green 'call send' button on a brick-sized Motorola handset, the latest tiny, third-generation - 3G - phones are about to hit the market. Today, thousands of teenagers and adults are poring over geeky phone manuals, configuring their new handsets so that they can surf the internet, download real-time TV and video clips, take photographs, make video calls and play MP3 music files." [The Guardian, via textually.org]

I had to call Sprint today to find out why I haven't been able to access any data services at home on my Treo for the last 10 days or so. The new recording that you hear - first thing - is a message noting that activations may take up to 24 hours because so many people are revving up their new phones.

I find the following overheard conversation to be pretty typical:

"College Girl: Yeah, I called mom and dad and left a message on their machine. I've been calling their cell phones too but they never pick up. They just don't understand. (pause....) Yeah, they don't get it -- cell phones are supposed to be carried around with them." [CamWorld]

World Record Texting

World Record Texting 05/06/2004 12:55 PM
It's amazing the sort of stuff they keep track of for world records these days. However, for the "thumb generation" there's a new standard to aspire to. Already considered the world's fastest text message writer, James Trusler, has set a new world record for speed texting on his mobile phone by tapping out "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." in 67 seconds. The article doesn't get into the (oh so important) details like what type of phone he used and whether it had helpful software like T9 to make texting faster. Of course, how do you judge such records when the technology is always changing? Is it fair to compare someone texting on a regular keypad against someone using a full Treo keyboard? What about the new DigitWireless phones with letter keys spaced between the number keys? There are going to be a lot of sub-categories for this record set.

World texting record

World texting record 06/29/2004 05:48 AM
A Singaporean woman has set a world record for mobile-phone texting, keying in the benchmark phrase (below) in 43.24 seconds, without the benefit of any predictive text utilities.

The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.

Link (via Waxy)

Texting lights up Glasto

Texting lights up Glasto 06/26/2004 02:20 PM
Techzonez Jun 26 2004 5:12PM GMT

2 Fast 2 Furious Texting

2 Fast 2 Furious Texting 05/07/2004 12:44 AM
The World Record for Fastest Text Messaging

"Setting a world speed record for the one skill that we hope will become obsolete in the very near future, James Trusler has emerged as the world’s fastest text messager, tapping out, 'The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human' on his cellphone in a mere 67 seconds, shaving nearly a minute off of the previous record. [Via TechDirt]" [Engadget]

Adults everywhere are shaking their head in dismay that anyone could text that fast. Of course, it's not like that record is going to last all that long, especially given the fact that the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is getting a text messaging add-on.

BOFH: Might as well face it, you're
addicted to smut

BOFH: Might as well face it, you're
addicted to smut 07/29/2004 09:52 AM
The Register Jul 29 2004 1:52PM GMT

The Reporter - Man says he’s
addicted to cable; wants to sue Charter

The Reporter - Man says he’s
addicted to cable; wants to sue Charter 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
Wisconsin man says he’s addicted to cable; wants to sue cable company, Charter .. lawsuits like this .. For this moron .. plaintiff

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"The Reporter - Man says he’s addicted
to cable; wants to sue Charter"

"The Reporter - Man says he’s addicted
to cable; wants to sue Charter" 01/08/2004 07:18 PM

You need to win on machines? Are you
addicted to games? (Thanks to
Bulldog232!)

You need to win on machines? Are you
addicted to games? (Thanks to
Bulldog232!) 04/17/2005 01:27 AM
ZDNet Apr 17 2005 5:15AM GMT

The World's Tiniest Violin Texting You

The World's Tiniest Violin Texting You 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
JOEL JOHNSON -- The AP wire has a touching story about a woman who convinced a thief to return her car via text messages. He left the vehicle in an abandoned lot, but still made off with her son's mobile (which is how she contacted him in the first place)...

Good And Bad Reasons For Texting Behind
The Wheel

Good And Bad Reasons For Texting Behind
The Wheel 08/02/2004 06:16 AM
Ever wanted to communicate with a driver in another car? There are plenty of legitimate reasons why you might. They could have a faulty light, you may have accidentally scratched their car while parking (and are honest enough to admit it) or they may be double-parked and blocking you. Textuall y points out a new service (which sounds very familiar) in Malaysia that would let someone send a text message to the owner of another car, simply by knowing their license plate. You send a text message to a specific number with the plate number in the message, and the service matches it up and forwards the message -- but only if (and it's quite an "only if") the other car owner has registered with the same service. Of course, while there may be good reasons for this service, it's likely many might want to use it for less than friendly reasons as well, such as stalking or yelling at a bad driver. Of course, the biggest reason this might be a bad idea is suggested in differen t Textually post: an increasing number of fatal car accidents from idiots texting while driving.

Texting passion sets new record

Texting passion sets new record 07/23/2004 06:07 AM
Britons' continue their love affair with text messaging, making it another record month for June.
Grok Description matches for Germans addicted to texting (Reuters)
GrokA matches for Germans addicted to texting (Reuters)

Texting lights up Glasto's tents

Texting lights up Glasto's tents 06/26/2004 01:18 AM
BBC Jun 26 2004 5:01AM GMT

New Year's texting breaks record

New Year's texting breaks record 01/05/2005 11:52 AM
A record 133m text message were set on New Year's Eve, bringing the total for 2004 to over 25bn.

Microsoft users addicted to older
Windows

Microsoft users addicted to older
Windows 12/15/2003 04:43 AM
Silicon.com Dec 15 2003 3:48AM ET

Addicted To Buying Good Domain Names

Addicted To Buying Good Domain Names 09/01/2004 11:32 AM
"With the pricing available right now for domain names it is fairly easy to get caught up in this addiction. You won't believe how many neat domains are still unregistered, especially two keyword domains..."

Germans addicted to texting (Reuters)

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