Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'textmessaging'
August 1, 2008
The legions of cyber Romeos and Juliets who are slaves to Craigslist's Missed Connections in the hopes of being wooed by a mystery someone can now declare their insta-infatuation via text message with MobileMoment.ca. The Toronto-based website, which had its soft launch Wednesday, hasn’t seen much action yet, but we’re pretty sure that the ability to gush about The Elevator Hottie or The Cute Cashier to all of Toronto in the hopes of scoring a......
Continue Reading "Missed Connections 3.0"August 1, 2008
People are scamming the city's parking machines to the tune of $1 million per year. Apparently you can use an expired pre-paid credit card to park for free because the machines don't check to see if the cards have credit left on them. The Toronto Parking Authority has known about this since 1998, but hasn't done anything because what the hell—it's only money. Federal industry minister Jim Prentice isn't happy about cellular companies charging......
Continue Reading "Parking Machines Scammed For Money, Police Find Drug Money, GM Loses Tons Of Money"July 10, 2008
Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice has demanded a meeting with the honchos from Bell and Telus so they can explain to him exactly why they decided to charge their pay-per-use users 15¢ per received text message, calling the decision "ill thought-out." Canadian technology users are consequently planning to demand a meeting with Minister Prentice to ask him to explain ACTA and Bill C-61, calling them "ill thought-out." Recently released documents have revealed that Canadian......
Continue Reading "Prentice Calls Out Telcos, Khadr Lawyers Call Out Feds, Rev. Jackson Calls Out Obama"May 20, 2008
Two University of Toronto researchers who've been studying teen text messaging say that not only is the medium not wrecking the English language, but may actually herald a linguistic renaissance as teens re-learn words like "shall" and "must." After reading months of teen text conversations, the lead linguist reported that she "was able to gain access to a world that most middle-aged academics never get to," which is interesting and a little creepy. The......
Continue Reading "Casino Crime, Teen Texting Fine, Kid Makes Good Time"