TXTBlocker has announced a new product for cell phones that allows owners to disable texting and other functions while a user is driving. The announcement was nicely timed for the same week that the Department of Transportation held a distracted driving conference.

It only took, what, 3 months (more or less), but iPhone MMS has finally been activated on AT&T's network. As the flagship carrier for the hot device, AT&T took a lot of flak over the missing feature, available on most other carriers from the day the iPhone 3GS and iPhone OS 3.0 launched.

AT&T is about the set MMS free for iPhone users. The lack of the iPhone's MMS on the flagship network for the device, AT&T, has been a source of embarrassment for the carrier since iPhone OS 3.0 and the iPhone 3GS launched earlier this year. The feature should go live later today sometime, barring any unforeseen issues. I say: so?

A new "texting while driving" PSA (public service announcement) from the U.K. pulls no punches. It also makes no attempt to hide the graphic consequences for someone distracted by their SMS messages while driving, either (picture from PSA attached).

Syniverse Holdings Inc. will spend $175 million to buy Verisign Inc.’s messaging system. Syniverse has confirmed this deal in a press release on August 25. Syniverse provides wireless voice and data services to telephone companies.

The Black Hat conference is an annual security get-together that frequently demos newly exposed security holes. And boy, this iPhone SMS hack is a doozy.

While some states have implemented hands-free cell phone laws for drivers, there hasn't been such attention paid in terms of text messaging or emailing, despite studies that have found as many as 30% of drivers text while behind the wheel.

Parliamentarian’s representing 140 countries leverage Clickatell SMS messaging to stay informed at their 118th annual meeting.

On Thursday the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a study tracking the way teenagers feel about writing. Among other things, it noted that both emoticons and text message speak are showing up in teens' classroom assignments.

Sending out emails from your computer is the most effective method to widen social networks and increase social contacts ties.

Cisco® today announced that TELUS, a leading Canadian telecommunications company, has enhanced its Short Messaging Service (SMS) in its Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) with Cisco's carrier-class Signaling Transfer Point (STP) technology known as the Cisco 7600 Internet Protocol Transfer Point (ITP) solution.

Quick SMS loans will now be harder to obtain. After much discussion over the drawbacks of the loans, Swedbank have made an agreement with the loan company that slows down the procedure.