Richmond – Virginia lawmakers are attempting to confront the problem created by people who use text-messaging on their cell phones while driving, the Washington Post reports. The article calls the practice “Driving While Texting” (DWT). Virginia’s General Assembly has raised two bills to ban texting while operating a car, bicycle, motorcycle, moped, or electric wheelchair.

Denver, Colo. - Mobile media distributor 9 Squared, a unit of U.K.-based Monstermob, on Friday announced the launch of a celebrity text message service featuring hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg. The service will deliver three text messages weekly, and is available to Verizon, Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile and Alltel subscribers. Other celebrities featured on The In Crowd service include Xzibit, Andy Milonakis and John Salley.  

New York, NY. In a recent study of the effectiveness of text message advertising to cell phones, marketing research firm eMarketer found that a sizable percentage of mobile subscribers are responding to short codes placed in advertisements or other media. However, the US and Germany fall far behind countries like Spain and the UK in the effectiveness of using this medium as a platform to deliver advertising.