Category: Mobile Phones

The four-year-old ban on using a new or old cell phone while operating a motor vehicle in the state of California has been declared a success with a significant drop in traffic deaths of as much as 22 percent over the period that the ban has been in force.

A ‘vigilante cell phone jammer’ fed up of people talking loudly on their new and old cell phones used a jammer to make his bus trip just that bit quieter.

An elderly couple from Winnipeg in Canada is baffled and outraged after having received a ticket from police officers for using a cell phone while driving, despite the fact that neither of them has ever owned one.

Kenya’s Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Centre has teamed up with Computer Aid International, a charity based in the United Kingdom, in order to give electronic waste management training to try and raise awareness as to the proper way to dispose of electronic items such as old cell phones, computers and televisions.

An auto corrected text message on a cell phone resulted in lockdowns at Oakwood middle and high school in Georgia on Wednesday.

Many states have begun flirting with banning cell phone use while operating a motor vehicle, and a significant number of them have already enacted laws. The issue has taken on a new twist in Illinois, where legislators in the state capital of Springfield are considering banning such use in some situations but not all.

Monroe County executive Maggie Brooks yesterday announced the launch of a nationally sponsored awareness campaign which is aimed at educating parents, students and teachers on the healthy, appropriate use of new and old cell phones among the youth population of Monroe County.

Smart Communications Inc. is considering releasing a cell phone and detection device that aims to benefit the visually impaired.

Technology from US company Liquipel that is claimed to make new and old cell phones waterproof has been licensed by the Vita Group.

The Canadian government’s decision to drop an online cell phone plan calculator has been described as ‘purely political’, with Industry Canada refuting the government’s claim that the idea was dropped because it failed to work.