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A British doctor volunteer in DR Congo performs an amputation using text message instructions from a London colleague.

Skyrocketing costs mean that Twitter users in Canada can no longer receive text-message updates, but they can still use the number to send "tweets."

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. (Techmeme) Effective Nov.

How much do you pay for a text message? In case you didn’t know, the cost of a text message has doubled in the past two years - from 10 cents to 20 cents - and suddenly Sen.

Herb Kohl wants to know why.

Since it leaked hours in advance, this was inevitable.

At 3:44 a.m., the text message reads as such…

Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee.

Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3PM ET on www.BarackObama.com.

Spread the word!

And now I can go to bed…

And so it begins…

I can understand the news organizations getting their hands on the info, but One.org? This is supposed to be a non-partisan organization devoted to fighting AIDS?

Here are a couple of screenshots from an email they just sent me…

First, the one that talks about Biden explicitly:

Then the non-committal postcard:

So much for that text message…

The title of their article is this, “Official: Obama picks Biden for veep.”

Well, it doesn’t get more “official” than that.

Just got an email from the campaign, and this seems like a sign that Obama’s Veep pick could be coming a little bit sooner than we thought.

From Obama’s site:

Barack is about to choose a running mate, and he wants you to know first.

You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be part of this important moment.

Sign up today and we’ll send you an email announcing Barack’s running mate.

My sister recently asked me via text message "who wrote Romeo and Juliet"? She was about to watch Hamlet and knew it was by the same person who wrote Romeo...