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A day without a cell phone
CNN
(CNN) -- There are approximately 331 million cell phone users in the United
States. But one day last week, there was one less: Me. My CNN editors asked
me to participate in an experiment where I won't use my cell phone for one
whole day. I thought: How ...
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Kenyan Phone Companies to Switch of Fake Handsets Oct. 1
Businessweek
Kenya, east Africa's biggest economy, will switch off as many as 2.5
million counterfeit mobile phones starting Oct. 1, the Communications
Commission of Kenya said today. "We had an estimation of 2.5 million
handsets as counterfeit" two months ago ...
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Nokia May Sue HTC Over The Company's Windows 8 Phone
Seeking Alpha
"One look at the two phones and you wonder if HTC will have a lawsuit on
its hands. They're eerily similar, and HTC's apparent mimicry doesn't make
a strong case for the originality of its flagship Windows phone. It's a
bizarre move for HTC, and one ...
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Multiple Android phones vulnerable to remote wiping, due to dialer behavior
Examiner.com
Android phones are vulnerable to being wiped without warning, due to a
vulnerability in the way some phone dialers handle USSD codes. Originally
thought to be limited to Samsung phones with TouchWiz UI, Dylan Reeve noted
on Tuesday that the issue ...
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CNN Explains: Cell phones and radiation
CNN
Alert icon. Loading... Published on Sep 26, 2012 by CNN. You love your cell
phone, but is it emitting radiation that could be harmful? CNN's Dr. Sanjay
Gupta explains. For more CNN videos, check out our YouTube channel at
http://www.youtube.com/cnn ...
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RIM Shows Off New BlackBerry 10 Phones, but Gives No Firm Release Date
New York Times (blog)
At the meeting, the company displayed the second version of a prototype
BlackBerry 10 phone. Outwardly, it appeared little different from a
prototype given to developers in May. But the software on the phone
demonstrated on Thursday looked much more ...
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Cell phones in the classroom for learning: Do you think it's a good idea?
Boston.com (blog)
Many local schools have specific rules that phones must be turned off
during school hours. For example, in Danvers students must have cellphones
turned off between 7:25 a.m. and 1:55 p.m. Students may only use their
phones before school, after school, ...
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Wallets, watches and phones stolen from players at Chelsea's training
complex
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
In the latest episode of Law and Order: Cobham Mysteries, the Daily Mail's
Neil Ashton reports that exactly "six wallets, nine mobile phones and
several watches" have been stolen from staff and players during a training
session at their Cobham complex, ...
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Nokia unveils new touchscreen phones
PCWorld
The company also debuted Nokia Life+, a free Web application, which
provides content on education, health, information, and entertainment
topics on both Asha 308 and 309 and other Nokia phones. Later this year,
local versions of the service will be ...
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New HTC phone will be sold without charger in bid to cut waste
The Guardian
Network operator O2, which will trial the pilot for the as-yet unnamed
phone, estimates that of the 30m new phones sold annually in the UK, 70% of
their buyers already have a compatible charger for the handset. The company
has previously said it will ...
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