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BARRIE, Ont. - Police blame some serious distracted driving for a chain-reaction crash that caused more than $100,000 in damage after a teenager struck a parked car in this city north of Toronto. Police said the driver was texting and trying to pick up her cat when the collision happened. Cops said the teenager was speeding when she lost control of the car, left the roadway and struck a car parked in a driveway. It was pushed into a boat, which was also in the driveway. The boat was then pushed into the house and a neighbour's vehicle. The driver...

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 A couple of days ago, I read an article about how police in Michigan (go figure) were forcing motorists to surrender their cell phones upon being detention for traffic violations. They are using the common tactic that most liberals and anti-constitutionalist morons use that "if you have nothing to hide, you'll do what I ask." This, of course, is false logic. "If I've done nothing wrong, there is no reason to ask" is the proper...

OK, am trying to see what the off-the-shelf options are for preventing cell phone and wifi usage inside a small building. Yes, that's right. And no, I can't tell you why, because is all hush hush ;| ;|.You wouldn't beleive what google returns when you search keyword "cellphone dampers."OY!Thanks in advance.

AT&T said on Sunday it would buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, creating the largest wireless company in the United States from what were the nation’s second and fourth providers.

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Good news for mountaineers preparing to climb Mt Everest is that they may soon be able to make calls using their mobile phones, from Mt Everest. Yes, the Nepal's state-run telecommunication firm – Nepal Telecom (NT) is gearing up to set up mobile network in the proximity to the highest mountain peak of the world. Nepal Telecom (NT) is set to install a permanent cell-tower near Mt. Everest. The Nepal Telecom’s mobile network will help the climbers to make calls using their GSM or CDMA throughout their mountain climbing adventure on the Mt Everest. According to Nepal Telecom, a satellite...

I went to a wedding in a big church out in the Sandhills of Nebraska this morning, but before leaving on the long drive, I got all set up in the usual standard customary blue three-piece pin-striped suit, when I suddenly remembered something. There was a bonfire on Skins's island the other day, where the primitives were talking about cellular telephones, and Playboy Pedro mentioned that some time ago at a wedding party, he had gotten drunk and dunked his cellular telephone into the wedding punch. Never mind that Playboy Pedro is circa three decades too old for such nonsense;...

I am currently without a computer and use my cellphone to browse the web. I have a request: Can someone please convert the Obama videos that are helping us to fight his campaign in 3GP format? This is the format most cellphones use and i will then be able to download them and share them with my entire phone book. I'm sure you know how fast a text message can get around... Imagine the whole country sharing these videos by cellphone... Everyone has cellphones now and most support video. If you can help me out let me know. Thanks in...

    Mobile phone firms plan to find out what you’re talking about . . . and tell advertisers   Elizabeth Judge   Mobile phone companies have drawn up plans to monitor text messages and voice calls and pass the information to advertisers. Companies such as Motorola have developed technology to scan messages for information about where customers are and what they are doing. They claim that the service would be used only with customers’ consent. But privacy groups had deep concerns about the technology and the potential for phone companies to abuse it. Under the Motorola plans, software...

Date posted online: Friday, June 22, 2007 Apple iPhone expected to drive mobile phone industry toward fancier touch screens BY MAY WONG AP Technology Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. | Get your fingers ready. Apple Inc.'s iPhone is leading a new wave of gadgets using touch-sensitive screens that react to taps, swishes or flicks of a finger. The improvements promise to be slicker and more intuitive than the rough stomp of finger presses and stylus-pointing required by many of today's devices. Apple has already been showing off its finger ballet in video ads ahead of the smart phone's hotly anticipated launch...

Who Can Kill the iPhone?Atlanta Journal-Constitution 06/18/07 4:00 AM PT AT&T's guns are loaded with the iPhone, but other carriers are already mounting their counterattacks. They say the iPhone is too expensive, that Apple has a backwards understanding of the market, and that its goal of a 1 percent market share is hardly frightening. They've also got a few very iPhone-like products on the way to stores. To hear many wireless companies talk, the iPhone from Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and AT&T (NYSE: T) is a welcome industry addition. It will spur interest in mobile technology and music phones, they say,...

Excerpt - A federal agency on Thursday barred the import of new models of cell phones that contain semiconductors made by Qualcomm Inc., because the chips violate a patent held by a rival, Broadcom Corp. The U.S. International Trade Commission's decision represents a compromise between a ban on all phones with Qualcomm chips, as Broadcom requested, and a ban only on the chips themselves, as recommended by an ITC administrative law judge late last year. ~ snip ~

Cellular subscribers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to subsidize land-line telephone service, enriching big telecommunications companies while providing little or no benefit to cell-phone users. The subsidies are intended to reimburse the companies for providing traditional phone service in rough terrain and rural areas where stringing lines can be costly. But rampant development has transformed some of these backwaters into booming subdivisions, with no real adjustment to the distribution formula; others, such as the oceanfront celebrity playground of Malibu, are receiving subsidies simply because of their difficult topography. Outdated formulas for tabulating the surcharges -- coupled...

The big deal isn’t the iPhone itself, which is what the mainstream investment, gadget and tech media is focusing on. It’s the way that it will fundamentally challenge how carriers have coupled services with connectivity with a hardware distribution monopoly. There never has been ‘net neutrality’ when it comes to mobile phone hardware. The Apple iPhone would be the first big test. The new (rumored) iPhone will be sold (rumored) directly from Apple and (rumored) require the user to pull the GSM SIM card from their device (only T-Mobile or Cingular use GSM domestically) and insert it into the...

The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students, won’t draw the kind of box office crowds that more ferocious˜and furrier˜digital creations did last Christmas. But it will share a place along side them in SIGGRAPH's Electronic Theatre show, which will run for three days during the 33rd annual exhibition and conference in Boston next month. Created by XVIVO, a scientific animation company near Hartford, CT, the animation illustrates unseen molecular mechanisms and the ones they trigger, specifically how white blood cells sense and respond to their...

My wife and I are infrequent cell-phone gabbers, but we have them just in case. Our current plan with T-Mobile is about $60 per month. We're trying to cut out all of our budgetary waste-- and one way of saving money might be to switch to prepaid phones. Tracfone has a deal where you get a phone and 450 minutes that are good for one year for $99. This would save us about $520 a year on our cell-phone bill. Anybody here use Tracfone? Does it suck? Is it great?

A pocket-sized symbol of change in China's vast struggle to cultivate a capitalist/ communist economy: wireless cellular handsets. Almost 400 million Chinese subscribe to wireless phone services — double the number of subscribers in the U.S. The figure in China is expected to pass 617 million in five years. Three service providers rule the market. Each is a former piece of China's nationally owned telephone operator, and each is still 70% owned by the Chinese government. The largest is China Mobile. (CHL) China Mobile was spun off in 2001 by China Telecom, (CHA) the country's fixed-line communications provider. It didn't...

Several Martinsville High School students say teachers stopped their calls to 911 while a fellow student was choking, because cell phones aren't allowed on campus. Witnesses tell police the victim was rushing to finish his lunch before leaving the cafeteria, because you can't bring food outside. That's when they say he started choking, went into cardiac arrest, and died at the hospital. Multiple 911 calls went out from Martinsville High School. Witnesses say Jesse Tucker choked on a hamburger. Paramedics rushed the 15 year-old freshman to the hospital, where he later died. "It's really hard to grasp the fact that...

New paint blocks out cell phone signals ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 1 (UPI) -- A Rochester, N.Y., company has developed paint that can switch between blocking cell phone signals and allowing them through. "You could use this in a concert hall, allowing cell phones to work before the concert and during breaks, but shutting them down during the performance," said Michael Riedlinger, president of NaturalNano. Using nanotechnology, particles of copper are inserted into nanotubes, which are ultra-tiny tubes that occur naturally in halloysite clay mined in Utah. Combined with a radio-filtering device that collects phone signals from outside a shielded space,...

A record number of mobile phones were shipped last year, and analysts and investors are now saying that the promises made 10 years ago about the potential for the wireless economy are truly being realized. Still, some of the foremost investors and analysts tell United Press International's Wireless World that they are nervous that the United States may not maintain its competitive edge in the global information economy unless certain changes are made -- by federal policymakers and business leaders -- soon. "There is enormous innovation in our economy -- no doubt," said James Melcher, founder of the New York...

The term "3G" proclaims the next revolution in wireless technology. It refers to the much-ballyhooed third generation cellular network services, currently available in the United States from Verizon, Sprint and Cingular. But after all the hype, is 3G living up to its broadband promise? Cellular wireless networks were originally created for voice-only communications. As their popularity grew, cellular network providers began to piggyback data on their networks. At first, this was great for simple text messages, but the masses soon clamored for full-blown Internet and e-mail access. Voice communications over cellular wireless networks has remained somewhat constant over the years...

NEW DELHI: Global mobile equipment maker Motorola today said it will consider manufacturing in India to comply with the eligibility criteria of deals with state-run carriers like BSNL and MTNL but remained non-committal on any immediate plan in this regard. "We are not closed to it..we will consider manufacturing here. We will do everything to comply with the tender conditions of the PSU telecom carriers ... but that will be when and in what shape, size and form, I can't say at this point of time. Our focus is to gain siginficant market share here and attain a critical mass",...

I always get great advice from Freepers when it comes to practical matters--dogs, construction, guns, guns, guns, cooking, guns, Gettsyburg travel, etc. Now I would like to ask for input on cell phones. We are currently with T-Mobile. Our contract is up in a week. Our coverage is pretty good, but now and then it gets spotty and drops out (probably true for all). We currently have 1600 Whenever Minutes, and rarely go over that. 1000-1200 would probably do it. Current bills running about $165 (for four lines). I am wondering if I can do better. Is there a good...

CHICAGO, June 3 (UPI) -- Monthly mobile phone plans have become more competitive than ever, as carriers offer more minutes to consumers for the same or less money, but increase their profits by selling expensive innovative features as extras, experts told UPI's Wireless World. This is what people can continue to expect "as fallout from the big cellular mergers," said Derek Kerton, a wireless industry consultant. The mergers, such as that of Sprint and Nextel -- which is expected to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission later this year -- as well as earlier deals, have remade the mobile...

Chicago, IL, Mar. 18 (UPI) -- The wireless industry may be poised for another massive expansion in the coming years -- perhaps contrary to conventional wisdom -- as new voice and data applications emerge and network quality dramatically increases, experts told UPI's Wireless World. "Demand for cellular service by consumers will continue to grow," said Doug Tribble, a telecommunications expert and attorney with Pillsbury Winthrop in San Diego. "The major suppliers of service are shoring up their national platforms." By Gene Koprowski Wireless World: New 'apps' driving growth Chicago, IL, Mar. 18 (UPI) -- The wireless industry may be poised...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The world's first mobile phone virus "in the wild" has spread to the United States from its birthplace in the Philippines eight months ago, a security research firm said on Friday. The virus, called Cabir, has spread slowly into 12 countries and marks the beginning of the mobile phone virus era, which could one day disrupt the lives of many of the world's 1.5 billion mobile phone users. The biggest impact of the relatively innocuous virus, found in about 15 variations so far, is draining mobile phone batteries, said Mikko Hypponen, director of Finnish anti-virus research...

JEDDAH, 6 January 2005 — A new brand of mobile phones made in Saudi Arabia by a Saudi company will hit the market later this month. Based on indigenous technology, the product will be the first “Made in Saudi Arabia” mobile phone, Ghazi Saleh Al-Shalhoub, chairman of Saudi Television Manufacturing Company, told Arab News. “The product is made without collaboration with any foreign manufacturer,” he claimed. He said Saudi Television Manufacturing Company’s new mobile phone is the first such product in the Kingdom and the Middle East region. It puts Saudi Arabia in a league of nations possessing electronic technology...

JEDDAH, 2 January 2005 — Saudi Arabia will punish anyone using third generation (3G) mobile phones for purposes deemed immoral, the state telecommunications regulator said yesterday. The warning from the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) came as it officially handed over the Kingdom’s first 3G license to mobile phone operator Ettihad Etisalat. 3G mobile phones can access the Internet, which is strictly controlled in Saudi Arabia, and receive high quality video clips from adult sites. “We expect (3G) providers to follow the same rules as Internet providers,” said CITC Information Technology General Manager Ahmed Sindi. “The challenge is that...

The new secretary general of the Organization of American States resigned yesterday because of accusations that he took a bribe in 2001 while president of Costa Rica. In a letter to the 34-nation organization, Miguel Angel Rodriguez denied he did anything wrong. "With humility, pain and anguish, I ask you and your countries for forgiveness for making you endure this difficult period," Rodriguez said in his letter, which was read to OAS members here yesterday by Costa Rica's ambassador to the OAS, Luis Guardia. Rodriguez wrote that he was leaving because he did not want to expose the OAS to...

A weekly series by UPI examining emerging wireless telecommunications technologies.--CHICAGO, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Christi Dixon savors the roll-over minutes her mobile phone company recently started offering. "All of my minutes transfer to the next month," Dixon, who works in marketing in St. Louis, told United Press International. "And on the months that I talk a lot, I avoid all the overage fees."As recently as two years ago, mobile phone companies gouged consumers, selling them cool technologies, with seemingly cheap monthly plans. Consumers recoiled when they received their phone bills, and were charged huge fees, often two or three times...

DAMMAM, 30 May 2004 — A cell phone with a camera was responsible for ending a marriage in Dammam, Al-Youm reported. The groom tried to make sure that no cameras were brought into the wedding hall; he hired women guards to search each guest before she entered the hall. One girl, however, managed to sneak a phone in and she took pictures of the bride and groom without either knowing. An old lady realized the girl was taking pictures and snatched the camera. When the groom learned about the incident, he was very angry and when he discovered that the...

If you have ever wanted to emulate Star Trek and talk to colleagues via a lapel communicator, then now is your chance. US firm Vocera has created a wireless voice communicator just like they use in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Similar to the TV series, all you do to contact someone is press the talk button on the lapel badge, say their name, and you will be put through. The gadget is proving popular in hospitals to make it easier for nurses to find and get advice from doctors. Talk time The Vocera communications system channels voice calls via...

<p>Researchers are marrying the modest cell phone with accelerometers, skin sensors, GPS and a calendar to create a system that always knows where you are and what you are doing, thereby eliminating phone tag. By Debbi Gardiner.</p> <p>Incessant calling and voicemails might become a thing of the past.</p>

<p>Any technology can be a two-edged sword. Cell phones are a good example. They're clearly a great convenience, even a life-saving tool during natural disasters and medical emergencies. And they should save many more lives under the Federal Communications Commission's enhanced 911 mandate, which requires that cell phones relay their precise locations to 911 operators.</p>

Struggling Austin semiconductor section will become its own public company Motorola Inc. soon will send its semiconductor business out into the world as a separate company with new marching orders: Sink or swim. Management of the Schaumburg, Ill.-based communications conglomerate announced early Monday that it will spin off its financially struggling semiconductor operations in a stock offering that should be completed next year. If successful, it would create the Austin area's second-largest public company behind Dell Inc. "We're pretty pumped about it,' said Ray Burgess, the director of strategy for Motorola's semiconductor business, which begain in Phoenix in 1949. So...

The US military is developing a weapon based on peer-to-peer technology to take out mobile phone communications, the US Department of Defence has revealed. The system also has the capability to covertly monitor cellular traffic. Codenamed 'WolfPack', the device is intended to prevent an enemy from using its communications technologies, including cellular, without hindering US forces' own communications systems. WolfPack is a 6 x 4in cylinder weighing 6lbs, capable of being dropped by parachute or fired into the target area as a missile payload. Each device zaps mobile phone communications within a radius of half a kilometre. "The idea is...

<p>Texas Instruments breaks new ground with its bundling of three technologies into a single chipset.</p> <p>Back in September, I wrote a column lauding Texas Instruments for its breakthrough designs that reduced from four to one the number of chips needed to operate a cell phone. Looks like the company is at it again.</p>

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More schools enjoy windfall by leasing space to cell phone companies Thursday, July 25, 2002By Dave MurrayThe Grand Rapids Press Fans attending Northview High School football games look up and see a huge American flag waving over the stadium. But Northview administrators look up and see something else: an easy source of about $30,000 a year for the district's coffers. The flagpole is a cellular phone tower, and a growing number of districts rent space to companies as a way to raise money without hitting up taxpayers. "It's not like you're going to use this money to balance the budget,...