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Called, coincidentally enough, TigerText, it allows users to set a time limit for a sent text to hang around after it has been read. When that life span has been exceeded, the message will disappear, say the developers, from the recipient's phone, the sender's phone and any servers. The message cannot be forwarded anywhere, stored anywhere or sold to any tabloid for an undisclosed sum. (See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal...
...works like this: when, say, a prominent politician sends his mistress an iPhone message via TigerText, the mistress will be prompted to install the app. When she has done so, she can read the message, but she can't keep it. In fact, the message is never actually sent to her phone; it's stored on TigerText's servers. After the politician's specified time span has elapsed - anywhere from one minute to five days - the message ceases to exist. There's even a "delete on read" setting, which counts down from 60 after a message is opened and erases...
...Read through an entire issue of The Advocate
...Even if people did not previously know who she was, once they look her up, read her Wikipedia, and read her articles, it is hard to challenge her relevance,” says Arbuthnott...
...example, some committee members said that while the tool could promote collaborative learning in the sciences, it could become a shortcut for learning in the humanities if students split up reading assignments and read one another’s notes...