SACRAMENTO, Calif. - To Celeste Tyler and her teenage friends, text-messaging is as effortless as tying their shoes. The high school senior can text without looking, sending messages on her red Samsung "slider" while it's behind her back, in her purse or under her desk at school, where cell phones are banned. So why not do it while driving? ...more

June 30, 2008

A Missouri woman pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles federal court Monday to charges in an Internet hoax blamed for a 13-year-old girl's suicide. ...more

June 17, 2008

Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime. ...more

May 17, 2008

TAMPA -- The mood remains somber in the WTSP, Channel 10, newsroom, where employees are concerned about the station's longtime weatherman, Dick Fletcher, who remains in an intensive care unit at a St. Petersburg hospital after a stroke Monday. ...more

February 22, 2008

TAMPA - Next week, customers of AT&T wireless may notice their cell phones have a little more zip when sending messages. The Bay area will be among the first few markets where No. 1 U.S. carrier AT&T will nearly double the speed at which its phones can upload photos, e-mail, text messages and video. The boost allows AT&T roughly to catch up with its two primary rivals, Sprint/Nextel and Verizon Wireless, which have made similar speed upgrades in the Bay area recently. ...more

October 15, 2007