If given the option, the great majority of people all around the world would rather live without their new or old cell phone than their computer and they would choose television over social networking, according to a new worldwide survey.
Continue readingFlorida school district considering controversial position on cell phones
Cell phones have long been considered the bane of many high schools and middle schools, but now, one Florida school district is beginning to re-think the issue.
Continue readingIridium embraces cell phones
Iridium was once killed by cell phones, but the satellite phone maker, which owns the largest satellite fleet in the world, is having a second coming and is now depending on the very same technology that once destroyed it to secure its future.
Continue readingWeather alerts to arrive via cell phones
Cell phones have become almost universal in US society, with new and innovative uses for them cropping up all the time.
Continue readingCell phone helps little girl kicked off bus
A bus driver in Utah has lost his job after kicking a seven-year-old girl off a school bus in an unfamiliar neighborhood because she did not have the correct documentation.
Continue readingCell phones golf controversy
A golfer glaring at a news photographer who clicks a shutter during a swing is a pretty common occurrence, but when 10,000 to 40,000 people are standing on a course, with the great majority taking photographs with their new and old cell phones, the chances for distracting the golfer become astronomical.
Continue readingNew York youth learns not to mix money and electronics
Very little can usually go wrong with a recycling effort. Deciding to recycle cell phones and other electronics is a laudable act that helps to conserve precious resources. As such, it is regarded as a green activity that we should all engage in.
Continue readingCell phone hurricane alerts launched by FEMA
With this year’s hurricane season set to kick off in a day’s time, and the tropics already beginning to hot up, emergency officials are saying that it is now simpler than ever before to keep up with evacuation shelters and storm alerts by using your new and old cell phones to access that information.
Continue readingCell phone manners
Of all the things that have increased with the advent of new and old cell phones, one of the worst is bad manners. Cell phones mean that people can be rude to others at anytime and anywhere, and there are a number of big ways in which cell phone misuse can really annoy other people.
Continue readingThe cell phone radiation detector
The argument as to whether new and old cell phones generate radiation that could cause brain tumors or cancer of the reproductive system has been raging for some time, but now there is a new cell phone that is able to detect radiation and will be able to warn users if they are encountering a potential hotspot.
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