Cell phones are helping to breach the gap in terms of access to the internet between whites and ethnic groups such as African Americans and Latinos in the United States, according to a new study. The report from the Pew Hispanic Centre, suggests that Hispanics and African Americans are much more likely to access the internet from cell phones rather than from home computers, indicating that cell phones are helping to beat the “digital divide” in internet access, as it has been termed. The difference remains telling, however, with only two thirds of adult Hispanics and African Americans using the internet in 2010, as opposed to seventy five percent of Caucasians, but the gap is narrowing thanks cell phones.

A mix up of cell phones led to a brutal assault… just hours after the same people were involved in another brutal assault. Four men attacked a man and a woman in an Eastside neighborhood in Wenatchee about half past one in the morning on Saturday, when the man and woman were spotted walking in the middle of the street by a group of men in a car. When the inhabitants of the car indicated for the couple to move, the man responded with an obscene gesture, resulting in a violent altercation.

A cell phone has played a key role in catching a man who murdered his wife. Ronald Earl Williams stabbed his wife to death four years ago in 2007, but did not expect the crime to be recorded. It appears that during the attack on his wife, Mariama Williams, Ronald Earl somehow accidentally activated his own cell phone, which sent a voicemail to Mariama’s own cell phone… and literally recorded her own murder.

A new cell phone company in the United Kingdom is set to unveil a brand new cell phone with tight Facebook integration built in. United Kingdom start up company INQ Mobile will be releasing the phone, which apparently goes under the name of the INQ Cloud Touch and which uses the Android operating system, with no less than four buttons relating to Facebook users on the phone’s home screen. The four buttons will include at least one to integrate your Facebook friends with your contacts, as well as a real time Facebook activity news feed, which will be a particularly prominent feature.

I recall the very first time I heard about a cell phone recycling program. I was headed into a Verizon shop and right at the side of the door was a big barrel for used cell phones. The purpose was to collect unwanted phones which would then be refurbished and given to women who were taking part in a ‘back to work’ program designed to help them get off of welfare and back in charge of their own lives.

A cell phone recycling scheme intended to help victims of domestic abuse has paid off big time, with the Women Called Moses Coalition and Outreach Inc and Genesis Women’s Shelter being given a donation of no less than fifteen thousand dollars from Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless, who initiated the cell phone recycling scheme under the name of HopeLine presented the check to the community groups on the fourth of February at the 2011 Super Bowl Gospel Celebration (SBGC) in Dallas.

Call2Recycle, the biggest free recycling collection program for batteries and old cell phones in the whole of North America, is set to expand its operations thanks to a team up with Earth911. Earth911 is offering a service called the Earth 911 Recycling Directory. The service, which kicked off late last year, enables sponsors to have their own sections on appropriate web pages throughout Earth911’s own web site, as well as giving them the ability to directly communicate with the site’s readers through their own news stories. Call2Recycle is set to sponsor the Earth 911 Rechargeable Batteries section in return for those abilities.

A Senator in the state of Utah is trying to have legislation passed that would make it illegal for teenage drivers to talk on their cell phones at the same time as they are operating a motor vehicle. Senator Ross Romero, D-Salt Lake City, is trying to have the bill, which would not affect a teenage driver’s license points but would instead see them slapped with an instant fifty dollar fine, passed through the Senate.

Talia Moore is a woman on a mission. The Binghamton community activist and writer has come up with a way to use old cell phones to help victims of abuse in her neighborhood by recycling used cell phones and using the proceeds to help to renovate five “safe houses” in the local area that are used to shelter those victims.