Cell Phones News Archive

13-Feb-2009

 

TI, Samsung to release cell phones with projectors (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Texas Instruments Inc. and Samsung Electronics on Friday unveiled smart phones embedded with chips that enable projection viewing -- devices the companies say can project videos and images larger than 50 inches, depending on surrounding light.

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.

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.

Bridgewater State College shutting off employee cell phones (The Patriot Ledger)

As a budget-trimming move that starts this weekend, Bridgewater State College will disable the incoming and outgoing call functions for most of its employees with college-issued cell phones. College has implemented other cost-saving changes as well and may raise student fees.

LG, Samsung Develop Solar-powered Cell Phones (PC World via Yahoo! News)

LG and Samsung will both unveil next week cell phones that you definitively won't want to keep in your pocket. They have developed prototype handsets that are recharged by solar panels built into the case.

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.

House OKs ban on cell phones for teen drivers (Louisville Courier-Journal)

A bill that would prohibit teenagers from using cell phones while driving passed the House yesterday. House Bill 46, sponsored by Rep. Rick Nelson, D-Middlesboro, would make it illegal for anyone under age 18 to use a cell phone or pager while operating a motor vehicle, motorcycle or mo-ped.

Fake Amber Alert goes out on RI cell phones (Boston Globe)

Police are investigating a hoax Amber Alert text message sent this week to cell phones across Rhode Island, asking people to help find a 7-year-old girl.

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.

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