AT&T Says American Idol Season 7 Broke Text Message Record

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AT&T announced today that the latest season of American Idol generated more than 78 million text messages as watchers voted for their favorite contestants. AT&T introduced the ability to text votes in season 2 of the show.

AT&T polled 416 users to see what roll text messaging played in the shot and found that 51% of respondents say they text more frequently during the Idol season than other times. 43% say they talk about the show via text messages and 22% say that they first learned to text by voting for singers on the show. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 May 2008 17:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

American Idol PhotoStamps

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American Idol winners are now available on stamps.

The special edition postage will feature previous winners Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks and Jordin Sparks, as well as the soon-to-be-decided Season Seven winner. Read more

Posted on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:22:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

American Idol in the Shower

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Do you ever feel like when you're in the shower you can sing better than anyone else? Well, Mark Feldstein & Associates, an Ohio-based supplier of a myriad of unique gifts and gadgets, today announced a product that will let you take your shower-singing talent a little further.

With the American Idol Microphone Shower Radio, you can tune to your favorite radio station and sing along. Read more

Posted on Tue, 23 May 2006 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

American Idol Movie Creator Camcorder

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Gear Live takes a look at the American Idol Digital Camcorder.

The American Idol branded digital camcorder toy is of course aimed at kids. The toy camcorder can record 5 min. of 640x480px video on its built-in 16MB memory. Gear Live finds that the camcorder not as bad as it sounds. Read more about it on Gear Live.

The American Idol Movie Creator with Microphone sells for $99.99 on Amazon.com.

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Posted on Tue, 31 May 2005 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr