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Cell Phones News Archive18-Jan-2009Software Locks on Cell Phones Stifle Competition and Cripple Consumers (Electronic Frontier Foundations) San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking for the public's help in its new campaign to free Cell Phones from the software locks that stifle competition and cripple consumers. The campaign's website is FreeYourPhone.org. Sexual criminals prey upon young cell phone users (River Oaks Examiner) The same Cell Phones that parents provide their children for safety can be endangering them, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott warned this week in Houston. Cell phones top landlines in spending (BizJournals) Americans now spend more for cell phones than for landline telephone services, according to a just-released report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Police have to cut cell phones (The Petersburg Progress-Index) HOPEWELL ? Hopewell police officers recently had to exchange their cell phones for old fashioned pagers. AG: Cell phones can endanger children (Coppell Gazette) 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. 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. AG: Cell phones can endanger children (The Colony Courier-Leader) Most parents are cognizant of the dangers that may be lurking on television, in the movies or on video games to their children, but State Attorney General Greg Abbott is urging them to be as aware of the dangers cell phones pose to children. Indian holiday, cell phones, marijuana get legislative hearings (Missoulian) HELENA - Legislative hearings on topics ranging from banning cell phone use on certain highways to eliminating daylight saving time will be heard by committees this week. Coming soon to cell phones: Free, over-the-air television (Hattiesburg American) Millions of consumers by year's end should be able to watch free, over-the-air television on cell phones, PDAs and other portable digital devices as the result of initiatives that will be unveiled today by some of the nation's largest TV station owners and electronics manufacturers. Lean Family Finances Haven?t Cut Cable TV or Cell Phones?Yet (Richmond Times-Dispatch) The economy is in a downturn. President-elect Barack Obama recently said that the economy is so bad he is not going to be able to do everything he promised he was going to do as soon as he became president. So, maybe it is true that there is a silver lining to every cloud. Even well-intentioned big plans tend to come with big price tags.
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