12-07-04 Financier J. B. Fuqua has made a fortune putting deals together over the telephone. His most important strategy is to make notes before he places a call. To avoid playing telephone tag, return phone calls right away, because you're likely to catch t...

12-04-11 Text messaging often gets a bad rap（口碑差） for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has found an upside to texting, especially for pe...

12-01-20 One in ten of us have been dumped by text message, a survey has revealed and a quarter confess to having flirted with someone they shouldn't in a text. 最新调查揭示，1/10的人曾收到分手短信，另有1/4的人坦言曾与不应该的人用短信调情。 So it's perhaps n...

11-05-28 Begging on the streets is a competitive business, it seems. But this homeless man is leading the way in innovation with a specially made sign that switches between messages appealing for change. 沿街乞讨竞争也很激烈，但美国一位流浪汉却用一种独特的办...

10-12-26 The Queen has made sport the central focus of her Christmas message this year, Buckingham Palace has revealed. 白金汉宫透露，女王将运动作为她今年圣诞致辞的中心焦点。 She emphasises how it can be used to build communities and create harmony, and high...

09-11-26 A website has published what it says are 573,000 intercepted pager messages sent during the 9/11 attacks in the United States. 一个网站公布，美国911恐怖袭击当天，系统截取了573000条寻呼信息。 The messages were said to be sent on 11 September 2001 Wik...

09-11-14 Terrible texting etiquette -- and ways to combat them By Victoria Lowe for Cosmopolitan Unless you're living a seriously alternative lifestyle, you've probably been communicating via text for a while now. You text your friends, your dates -- even yo...

09-09-15 Trials are under way of a UK service allowing people to contact emergency services by text message. 英国正在进行一项允许人们用短信联系紧急服务机构的试验。 The SMS triggers a relay call service to the emergency services The system is aimed at people...

09-08-08 A text message is typed into a phone in a file photo. A growing number of British teenagers are swapping sexually explicit images of themselves on mobile phones leaving them open to bullying and victimization by their peers, police and a children's...

09-07-24 A UK firm that turns mobile messages into text faces questions over its privacy standards, technology and finances following a BBC investigation. 一项BBC调查显示，一家将语音短信转换成文字信息的英国企业面临隐私标准、科技和财政等一系列的质疑。 Spinvox...