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Pakistani men try blind texts to find love

Conflict & Justice

Pakistan has strict social norms for dating and relationships between men and women. In order to circumvent those restrictions, some men are taking to their cell phones, sending text messages blindly to the phone numbers of women they’ve never met before.

Pakistani Men Trying to Pick Up Women One Text at a Time

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‘Paris vs New York’: Comparing Two Iconic Cities

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Texting While Driving: Is It Dangerous?

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Dangers of ‘car phones’ known early

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Electronic footprints: what your messages say about you

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Call it Big Brother or call it being a conscientious employer, but there’s a new kind of software that monitors your use of email and online messaging. It’s called Cataphora and it is used to find out how useful an employee you are.

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Texting While Dating!

Arts, Culture & Media

Taking a phone call during a date is one thing. But is it okay to write a text message? What about emailing, or tweeting? Kate Dailey, writer of Newsweek’s Human Condition Blog, and her friend Steve Calachman join The Takeaway to voice their opinions.

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Playing Telephone with Google (and Us)!

Google is rolling out a free phone management service, making phone use more like email and instant messaging. Join The Takeaway and New York Times personal technology editor Sam Grobart in playing with a powerful new means of communicating.

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Teenage Wasteland? How Teen Texting Affects Behavior

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Teenagers send thousands upon thousands of text messages each month (some as many as 24,000!). So researchers are beginning to wonder: what’s the effect of the furious finger work? Reporter Katie Hafner joins The Takeaway with answers.

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Cell phones in Zimbabwe

Conflict & Justice

The World’s Clark Boyd reports that Zimbabweans have been using text-messaging and cellphones to stay up-to-date as they await word on the results of their presidential election.