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...your mobile device improve your social life. Use this service to corral friends for a drink or find out where they're already hanging. All you do is send a text message to the mother ship, and it does the rest: the service locates you, checks which of your buds are nearby and sends out the appropriate alerts. And the Dodgeball team keeps growing: it's now at play in 22 cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Cool Sites You'll Want to Bookmark | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...Navteq mapset, which was quite useful in most cases. The user interface was a bit frustrating at times. It was hard to sift through the 1.5 million points of interest, and, during a route, I could never get what I call the "Mapquest" view - that is, a text itinerary of the turns it's planning to shout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pioneer AVIC-S1 Portable Navigator | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

...Over in England, 2,500 employees of an insurance firm were fired by a group text message. The firm wanted everyone to hear the news at the same time, as if that was fairer. Instead, getting the axe by text only made the employees more offended. They looted the firm's offices of computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News Comes in Small Bytes | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...easier to break up with a boyfriend by text message than face him in person; that way, you don't have to suffer through his tears. Just like it's easier to complain about restaurant service online than to tell the waiter there's a fly in the soup. And we enjoy confessing secrets to anonymous web sites visited by total strangers, but we can't admit that same secret to the one person we betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News Comes in Small Bytes | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...Arab governments are mounting a last-ditch attempt to change the text before it is adopted by the Security Council. Although France has indicated sympathy with Arab complaints, they say the deal on offer is as much as Israel and the U.S. will concede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If They Gave a Cease Fire and Nobody Came? | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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