Getting teens beyond textin'
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Teenagers are fiends for sending text messages from their phones. Virgin Mobile wants them to feast on other services as well.
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Many teens do not get enough exercise and spend too much time in front of a television or computer screen. Yet, the few who are physically active do not
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By Jillian Cohan, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 25--Psychologists wonder whether teens' need to be in near-constant touch with friends is hurting their chances of developing authentic feelings and self-awareness.
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TechWeb - The unannounced service apparently targets teens and young adults, for texting and photo and video sharing.
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Young people are now the savviest of the tech-savvy, as likely to demand a speedy broadband connection as to download music onto an iPod, or upload digital photos to their Web logs.
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Instant messages. Text messages. E-mail. Voicemail. Blogs. Online social networks. And the good old cellphone. If you thought there were enough ways to communicate with others and express yourself, think again.
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By Maria Puente  Think teens and twentysomethings hog all the online attention? Time to shove the teenyboppers aside: It's Grandma and grandkids -- some too young to read -- who are forging the newest interactive social networks in cyberspace.
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By Greg Gelpi< Staff Writer  More computers are coming to your child's classroom.  And those new computers should narrow the technology gap that exists from school to school in Richmond County.  Some schools have two or three students sharing a computer, others as  many as 12.
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By Michelle Theriault, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 24--On a recent afternoon, Dave Shockley learns to text message.   It's not as if Shockley's unfamiliar with cell phones.
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Talking to youngsters in the language of text could prove an invaluable way of increasing their access to services.
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As anyone with a teenager in the house knows, today's consumers live in an era of multitasking. We're watching "Lost" with the phone tucked between shoulder and ear while reading e-mail and conducting three chats via instant messaging.
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By Joanne Clodfelter Contributing Writer  DAYTON -- The class of 2007 has grown up using computers in ways that were yet unheard of in their parents' generation. Computers connect them to their communities and to their world.
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More than 90% of 12-year-olds now have a mobile phone, a survey of 1,250 youngsters suggests.
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In the last two years, text messages have become a rage among teenagers. But text-messaging can be expensive.
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By Tammy Krikorian, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 10--The Internet gives East Valley parents plenty to worry about. Teens go online to socialize with friends and strangers, post personal photographs and even pour out their deepest secrets.
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Teenager Michelle Rome can't imagine life without instant messaging. Baby boomer Steve Wilson doesn't care that it even exists. They're part of an "instant messaging gap" between teens and adults. And the division is wide, says an AP-AOL survey on how Americans use or snub those Internet bursts of gossip, happy date-making and teen tragedies that young people exchange by the hour while supposedly doing homework.
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Young people don't think of technology as separate from their daily lives.