Cellphone

Should Cellphone Use Be Illegal In Cars?

Reuters | Posted 02.12.2012

By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. safety investigators called on Tuesday for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use w...

Is It Ever Okay To Leave Your Ringer On?

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 12.04.2011

In the olden days, audible ringing on cellphones was fine, because cellphones never rang. Most people didn't have one and the people who did didn't kn...

Think Your Phone Bill Is High? Fla. Woman Owed Outrageous Sum

AP | Posted 12.18.2011

MIAMI (Associated Press / The Huffington Post) -- A South Florida woman got a shock when she opened a recent cell phone bill: she owed $201,000. It...

Cellphone Service Arrives At 6 NYC Subway Stations

Posted 11.27.2011

NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers won't be able to go underground to escape calls from the boss much longer — the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...

Cellphone Service Coming To Subway Stations

AP | By PETER SVENSSON | Posted 11.23.2011

NEW YORK -- The long-delayed project to wire New York City subway stations for cellphone service is finally bearing fruit. A person close to the matte...

Top 9 Apps And Services That Eat Your Wireless Data

Posted 09.04.2011

(PETER SVENSSON, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) NEW YORK -- If you have a cellphone with a monthly limit on how much data you can use, here are some tips on ...

Cellphone Provides New Bin Laden-Pakistani Leads

AP | Posted 08.23.2011

WASHINGTON — A cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier recovered in the U.S. raid last month that killed both men in Pakistan contained c...

Apps, Not Just Alms, for the Poor

Paul Lamb | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Lamb

The staggering growth in smartphone adoption has resulted in the creation of hundreds of thousands of mobile applications touching almost every intere...

Connected Arab Youth Are the Secret to Present Uprising

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Daoud Kuttab

The Arab youth of today are connected and determined to take part in deciding their own future. Understanding them and giving them an opportunity to share in power is the only logical way to help find solutions.

Aid Groups Help World's Poorest With Cellphones

Posted 05.25.2011

More international aid groups are turning to mobile technology to solve global poverty, the Washington Post reports. "Mobile penetration is at almos...

Verizon

The Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

In a recent ad, Verizon boasts that they offer coverage in more than 220 countries. Impressive. The only problem, as Consumerist noted recently, the...

People Taking Their Phones, TV Remotes To The Grave

Huffington Post | Amanda Ng and Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

According to Obit Magazine, caskets are getting crowded. The magazine on 'life, death, and transition' reports that more and more people are choosing...

Verizon/Google iPad Killer

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Shelly Palmer

Today's most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment.

Motorola Backflip: AT&T Gets Its First Android Phone

Posted 05.25.2011

The Motorola Backflip -- nicknamed the 'inside out' smartphone -- will be the first Android phone to hit AT&T's lineup. According to Gizmodo, the pho...

Cellphone Spyware Lets You Eavesdrop On Calls, Track Every Move (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Spyware for cellphones has taken Big Brother a whole new set of capabilities. With the new spyware software now available, you can be alerted every t...

Blackflip: Motorola's 'Inside-Out' Android Phone Debuts

Wired | Priya Ganapati | Posted 05.25.2011

Motorola launched its third Android smartphone, an attractive, compact device with some surprising hardware innovations and a user interface that aggr...

Guide Tells How Much Radiation You Cell Phone Emits

treehugger.com | Posted 11.17.2011

The Environmental Working Group has released a website that sorts through cell phones and shows the emissions levels of over 1,000 cell phone models. ...

Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Higher Risk In Children, Report Says

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.17.2011

A new report, "Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone," was released today by a collaborat...

Cell Phone Camera Pics as Art? Broadway icon Joel Grey Thinks So.

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jon Chattman

I spoke with the actor about his book of cell-phone photography, his photography career, and if this is all a hobby or another role he's taken on.

Cell Phone Customers Pay For Much More Time Than They Use

LA Times | David Lazarus | Posted 05.25.2011

If you're like most cellphone users, you probably think you're paying less than 10 cents per minute for calls. Think again. When you do the math, you...

Less than Wireless -- and Loving It

Steven Crandell | Posted 11.17.2011

Steven Crandell

The clumsy man's cellphone wasn't so resilient. It was dead. It took him 10 days to get another cellphone. And in that time, a strange thing happened. He found he enjoyed living without a cellphone.

More Customers Giving Up Cellphone Contracts, Choosing Pay-As-You-Go Plans

New York Times | JENNA WORTHAM | Posted 05.25.2011

Maybe Tony Soprano was onto something. As the lead mobster in the HBO series "The Sopranos," he and his crew often turned to prepaid cellphones, presu...

Cellphones Recommended For Foreign Travel

Los Angeles Times | Terry Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Choosing the best cellphone for foreign travel can be daunting. Is the iPhone the answer? Which BlackBerry -- Bold or Storm? Reliable phones that can ...