Phone Stack: Banning Mobile Phones from Dinner with Friends

The Phone Stack: You Phone or Text, You Pick Up the Dinner Bill There's a new dinner game in town: The Phone Stack (aka Don't Be a D*ck During Dinner with Friends). It was invented, as it were, by a blogger named...

Verizon New Fee: $2 to Pay Your Bill Online

Verizon to Charge Wireless Customers for Not Using Autopay Verizon is taking a cue from America's big banks, and jumping on the nickel-and-dime bandwagon. Verizon will start charging its wireless customers an...

China - Man flushes phone down toilet then gets arm trapped

A Chinese technology student accidentally dropped his phone in the toilet, he thought he would retrieve it with the help of news\paper wrapped around his arm to keep it clean. Only...

Windows Phone 7 Unveiled

Microsoft Reveals Windows Phone 7, New Handsets (AT&T, T-Mobile) Microsoft has unveiled the long-delayed Windows Phone 7 operating system, along with a slew of compatible handsets during a launch event in New...

GSM Encryption Cracked: Karsten Nohl Posts Phone Hack Torrent

GSM encryption was hacked again, and computer engineer Karsten Nohl published the exploit as a torrent, which anyone with an Internet connection can download and do with as they please. (Hopefully Vodafone,...

Cell phones for Fast Credit Card Transactions

This will benefit small scale businesses as they can also get credit cards as a form of payments."Now it also claims another facet of transaction and that is in the form of mobile banking as mobile phone users can swipe their credit cards into their cellphones without the...

Distracted Drivers Kill Thousands Each Year

Drivers who were distracted by electronic devices killed around 5,800 people in the United States during 2008, says U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The numbers were presented at a two-day Transportation...

Cell Phone Radiation: List of Safest Phones

Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a new article warning us once again about cell phone radiation. The gist of the article is that cancer rates are up in those who have been using mobile phones for ten years or more, but current research can't actually pin the...

Nagging by Text

Nagging by text. Txt nagging? Nggng? Wow. We all know that kids are given mobile phones as a Trojan-Horse gift: cool new toy that parents will then use to spy on you. However, that was bearable to all the tweens...

Guide for soil id'ing comes to cellphones

When an agricultural technician is out in the field, without a library or laboratory in sight, how does he answer the farmers' question: “What type of soil does my farm have?”Gone will be the days when technicians have to get soil samples and bring it first to their...

Palm Pre to Arrive June 6 on Sprint

The much-hyped Palm Pre has finally gotten an official US release date: June 6. It will launch on the Sprint network, alas, but will only cost two hundred bucks after alll the rebates, paperwork, etc. No release date...

Now Stay Connected on Mt. Everest

Mt. Everest is on hiegher altitute and thus telecommunication is the problem faced till now. But with the combined efforts to the telecommunication networks they are working out for satellite network. So in near...

Judge Blocks New Jersey Sexting Charges

A New Jersey judge has blocked the prosecution of three teenage girls over a sexting charge, following a request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU argues that the images sent by the girls were not pornographic in nature, as they were not meant for...

Can Human Blood energize iPods and Cellphones?

this story intrigued meas how a body reaction and movement can generate electricity." This can be a possibility as the this body movement, beating of a human heart or simply the blood flow can be converted into electricity using nanowires made up of zinc oxide. Zinc-oxide...

Blackberry App World Announced

Blackberry's application store is now online, though it's the smartphone equivalent of a store with butcher-paper over its windows. Don't call it the "app store", though... the storefront is called App World. It...

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