Mobile giving to help Haiti exceeds $1 million

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Cell phone users send donations via text messages to charitable groups

By Suzanne Choney

The cell phone may be one of the big heroes in a campaign to donate money for relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. In the United States, more than $1 million was raised Wednesday via text-messages sent to organizations like the American Red Cross and Yele Haiti foundation.

"Customers of Verizon Wireless and our competitors in the United States will have donated more than $1 million today to the Red Cross relief effort for Haiti — directly from their mobile phones," said Jeffrey Nelson, Verizon Wireless spokesman, who called it "the biggest day in the history of mobile giving in the U.S."

Nelson said that as of late Wednesday afternoon, customers of Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier "alone have contributed more than $300,000." AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are also backing the text-messaging donation campaign.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34850532/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/

Good job, cellphone users!

[Jennicut]

1. +1 for technology. It did some good here.