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Cellphones: Texting While Walking Is Causing People to Hurt Themselves
Newsweek Should other countries copy China and adopt separate pedestrian walkways for people using cellphones? That's one possible conclusion to draw from a study that suggests using your cell changes the way you walk. The study, led by scientists at Anglia … |
Category: Cell Phones
Stiffer penalties for cell phone-using drivers near in Oregon – Statesman Journal
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Stiffer penalties for cell phone-using drivers near in Oregon
Statesman Journal Oregon lawmakers are about to make this perfectly clear: doing anything with a cellphone while driving is illegal. That would include texting, talking, emailing, movies, navigation and/or social media. You could be cited for just holding a phone in … |
Robbers hit Walnut store, flee with box of cell phones – The San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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Robbers hit Walnut store, flee with box of cell phones
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune WALNUT >> Two men robbed a local cell phone store of a box of cell phones Thursday morning. Lt. Frank Rivera of the Sheriff's Walnut/Diamond Bar station said the store employee believes the suspects were armed but did not see a weapon. He didn't know … |
A Colorado group wants to ban the sale of cell phones to preteens – Salon
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A Colorado group wants to ban the sale of cell phones to preteens Salon Initiative 29 would require retailers to “verbally inquire about the age of the intended primary owner of the smartphone” and file monthly paperwork to the Department of Revenue to make sure kids under the age of 13 don't get access to any cell phone … Knoxville parents sound off on Colorado plan to keep cell phones away from kids A minimum legal age for |
All cellphones sold in Canada must be unlocked starting in December – The Verge
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All cellphones sold in Canada must be unlocked starting in December The Verge The CRTC, Canada's wireless regulator, has ruled that every cellphone sold in the country must be unlocked, and carriers can no longer charge their customers to unlock their current devices, according to the CBC. The rules will take effect on December … Canada rules that all new cellphones must be unlocked Canadian Telecom Commission Puts an End to Locked Cellphones and Unlocking Fees |
North Korea Targets Potential Illegal Cell Phone Users With Links to Defectors – Radio Free Asia
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North Korea Targets Potential Illegal Cell Phone Users With Links to Defectors
Radio Free Asia North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered authorities in the isolated, communist state to expand a crackdown on illegal cell phone use to cover citizens who have links to defectors in South Korea, sources familiar with the situation said. In the past … |