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Cell Phones News Archive27-Oct-2008Cell phones now are boarding passes, too (The Columbus Dispatch) Airline travelers can't use Cell Phones in flight, but fliers in selected cities can use them to download paperless boarding passes. Creative efforts get cell phones into inmates' hands (Houston Chronicle) Wanna gab from prison? Be prepared to fork over some cash. Smuggled Cell Phones in Texas prisons can run between $200 and $400, except on death row, where a phone and accessories fetch upwards of $2,000. 13 cell phones found in searches of Texas prisons (Las Cruces Sun-News) HOUSTON?An intense shakedown of Texas' 155,000 prison inmates yielded 13 cell phones and 12 chargers in a growing scandal over prohibited telephones being smuggled in to inmates. Cell Phones Place Added Workload on 911 Dispatches (FOX 5 Washington D.C.) Some parts of the Washington area have seen a jump in 911 calls as more people use their cell phones to report emergencies. District of Columbia officials say increasing wireless calls have pushed the total volume of 911 calls from 819,000 in 2004 to 1.3 million last year. In Loudoun County, 911 calls rose from 69,000 in 2000 to 98,000 in 2006. Project Masiluleke taps cell phones in AIDS fight (CNET) Project M harnesses the ubiquity of cell phones in South Africa to spread information about public health crises such as AIDS, tuberculosis. Internet and cell phones may strengthen family unit (Louisville Courier-Journal) Parents and children might rush through their days in different directions, but the American family is as tight-knit as in the last generation ? or more so ? because of the widespread use of Cell Phones and the Internet, according to a new poll.
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