Cell Phones News Archive

12-Feb-2009

 

Districts: leave cell phones home during TAKS tests (Lake Houston Sentinel)

With state TAKS tests looming on the horizon, area school districts are getting the word out now to parents that their students are prohibited from carrying Cell Phones and similar electronic devices on their person during testing.

MURRIETA: Used cell phones sought for soldiers (North County Times)

MURRIETA ---- Fighting a war is hard enough, but not being able to afford a phone call home makes it all the more difficult. That's where Cell Phones for Soldiers steps in.

Qualcomm adds RFID-enabled tech to cell-phones (TG Daily)

Yesterday, Qualcomm announced it is providing several reference chipsets which include NFC (Near Field Communication), a system operating in the 13.56 MHz band, capable of transferring data up to 424 Kbps over extremely short distances -- typically 4 inches or less. The idea is to provide cell phones with a way to interact with merchants for mostly currently undefined applications, but those ...

Cell phones may soon be banned in school zones (Southlake Times)

Most people, parents and children, alike are attached to their cell phones and feel lost without them, but soon those people just might have to learn to deal with that feeling in school zones.

Recap: Video and chat with Bike Fort Collins covers cell phones, bike safety (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)

The live video conversation with Jeff Morrell, president of Bike Fort Collins, will begin at at 11 a.m. Morrell will join Coloradoan reporter Trevor Hughes to talk about bike safety, cell phones and other issues.

Bars Behind Bars: Inmates Using Cell Phones in Prison (KESQ Palm Springs)

BLYTHE - From smart phones to cell phones worn on your wrist, more and more California prisoners are getting bars behind bars. Chuckawalla State Prison in Blythe is one of those facilities where there has been a big spike in prisoners using cell phones.

AG: Cell phones can endanger children (Southlake Times)

Most parents are cognizant of the dangers of children which may be lurking on television, in the movies or on video games, but State Attorney General Greg Abbott would like parents to be equally as concerned with the dangers to children using Cell Phones.

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