With a new doctor's warning that cell phone use could pose a serious health risk, many jerks and douchebags are considering changing their ways.
Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green
We have heard of climate deniers and chemical industry defenders, but now John Tierney of The New York Times joins the ranks of the Everything Deniers...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Cell phone calls on airplanes in flight are not only unsafe, they're obnoxious and they should be permanently banned, according to ...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living
When the head of a respected cancer research institute warns his faculty and staff to limit their time on cell phones, I take notice. Please note: I ...
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living
As crazy as this might sound, there might be some truth to the recently discovered phenomenon of "sleep-texting."
Darrell Hartman | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment
It's uncool to be too connected. This is the main lesson to be learned from August, a new movie set in millennial New York just before the dot-com ma...
Lloyd Garver | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media
As of July 1st, people in California are prohibited from talking on their cells while driving, but they're not prohibited from dialing or text messaging while driving.
AP | MALIA WOLLAN | Posted 07.08.2008 | Home
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — To Celeste Tyler and her teenage friends, text-messaging is as effortless as tying their shoes. The high school senior can...
Fortune | Michal Lev-Ram | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
A flurry of new state laws making it illegal for people to drive while holding a cell phone is expected to be a bonanza for Bluetooth, a wireless tech...
Graham Hill | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green
According to The New York Times, Americans threw out nearly three million tons of household electronics in 2006. A few years ago, the EPA predicted that by 2005, cell phones would be discarded at a rate of more than 125 million phones each year, resulting in more than 65,000 tons of waste.
Treehugger.com | Lloyd Alter | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green
We usually linked fear of wifi and cellphone radiation with the tinfoil hat brigade, but more evidence is coming out that indicates we should be con...
The Daily Green | Dan Shapley | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green
The world's most comprehensive study of the health effect of cell phone use, two years overdue, has yet to be published. But some of the studies that ...
AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — A wireless industry proposal under consideration by the government that would make it easier for cell phone customers to break up w...
AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
CHICAGO — Motorola Inc. announced plans to separate its struggling handset business from other operations Wednesday, forming two separate, publi...
AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
PHILADELPHIA — Major cable, telecom and Internet companies are in preliminary, but serious, talks to create a national wireless network that wou...
Consumerist | Bob | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Two Marines, a husband and wife, found Verizon had an unpleasant welcome-home gift waiting for them when they got back from serving in Iraq: canceled ...
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless introduced an unlimited calling plan $99.99 a month on Tuesday, a move that was quickly matched by AT&T Mobility and...
Reuters | Amy Norton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Spending hours on a cell phone each day may affect the quality of a man's sperm, preliminary research suggests. In a study of 361 men seen at their i...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
U.S. TV broadcasters will be ready to start transmitting signals for portable electronics like cell phones next year, the developers of the technology...
AP | DIBYA SARKAR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone se...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Piotr Staniaszek normally pays $147 a month for his cell phone. So he was more than a little surprised to learn his November bill had ballooned to $59...
New York Times | Laura Holson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Two new questions arise, courtesy of the latest advancement in cellphone technology: Do you want your friends, family, or colleagues to know where you...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.04.2008 | Living