Cell Phones News Archive

06-Sep-2008

 

Cell Phones Target Of Scam (KELO Sioux Falls)

The latest scam circulating in South Dakota involves taped phone calls to Cell Phones.

Schools, Students Battle Over Cell Phones (FOX 13 Memphis)

Leave your Cell Phones at home - that's the message to students from Memphis and Shelby County Schools and so far it's not going over well. It's one thing for a teacher to explain the Theory of Relativity to students, or try to make them understand why E=MC squared. It's a whole new dimension to have to do it while students are texting each other and checking their voicemail.

Bill would ban taxi drivers? use of hand-held cell phones (Las Vegas Sun)

CARSON CITY ? The Taxicab Authority?s proposed ban on cell phone use by cabbies while they transport passengers would exclude hands-free cell phones, according to the agency?s administrator.

IR updates policy on use of cell phones (The News Journal)

SELBYVILLE -- Indian River School District students in grades kindergarten through 12 are no longer be permitted to use cell phones in school buildings or on school buses.

Easy Cell: Mobile Phones for the Hearing Impaired (Scientific American)

The convenience and relatively low cost of cell phones in the U.S. has made them an indispensable part of life. Unless, of course, you are one of the 37 million or so hearing-impaired adults living in this country. But University of Washington (U.W.) in Seattle researchers are hoping to change that by developing software that lets callers communicate on their mobile phones using sign language ...

Sector Snap: Cell phones down on Nokia warning (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Shares of Motorola Inc. and other makers of cell phones were down Friday morning after Nokia Corp., the largest in the field, said it expected the market to be affected by the weaker consumer confidence in several markets.

Police issue 2 cell phone warnings (West University Examiner)

West University Police wrote two warning tickets to drivers who were using cell phones in the school zone near West U Elementary School this morning.

Cell phones welcome in some classrooms (MSNBC)

Cell phones have long been anathema in the classroom, banned as a potential distraction, at best, and as a possible vehicle for cheating, at worst. But lately, educators have begun changing their tune on mobile phones.

NYC Department of Sanitation and Office To Combat Domestic Violence Join Verizon Wireless To Recycle Cell Phones To ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty today announced that the New York City Department of Sanitation's Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling is again teaming up with Verizon Wireless to collect old Cell Phones at its annual Electronics Recycling and Clothing Donation events this fall.

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