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An app to teach you to love instead of 'like'

Mar 26, 2012
"Fish: A Tap Essay" uses new technology for an old-fashioned essay.

Sprint's new green standard for phones

Jan 11, 2012
The cell phone carrier will evaluate all handsets for environmental impacts.

Phones in cars? Awww, go ahead.

Dec 22, 2011
I'll tell you about this cell phones in cars thing right after I send this text...

The latest verdict: no evidence that cell phones are harmful

Oct 21, 2011
It seems like every other week a study comes out telling us that cell phone usage can cause brain cancer, or conversely, that they don't harm us at...

Increase in contraband cell phone use in prisons

Sep 7, 2011
A report released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office shows there are more contraband cell phones in federal prisons than in 2008....

Irene to challenge cell networks. Networks to lose.

Aug 26, 2011
Hurricane Irene is expected to hit with full force tomorrow morning and possibly be enormously destructive. CNET points out that 96% of Americans...

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Reservations required, cell phones banned

Aug 16, 2011
Rogue24, a high-end DC eatery, is requiring patrons to sign a no-cell-phone contract when they make reservations. I guess those fancy pictures of...

Facebook for every phone

Jul 13, 2011
Chicken in every pot, Facebook on every phone. Facebook is now offering an app called Facebook For Every Phone (catchy!) for feature phones (i.e.,...