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What your phone app doesn't say: It's watching

(AP) -- Your smart phone applications are watching you - much more closely than you might like.

Technology / Software

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 11

Researchers create cell phones for sign language

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Britain planning new Internet snooping laws

The British government wants to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (10) | comments 26

Teens risk health with night texting, talking

To many parents, text messaging is an enigma -- a practice their children engage in when they could just make a phone call or walk down the street to their friends' houses. It seems to be a strange but harmless means of communication.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Motorola Debut i856 Available

Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint that offers wireless phones and services with no contracts and Motorola announced today the launch of its first push-to-talk slider phone. The Motorola Debut i856 gives Boost ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Before you trash that phone, read this

If you own a cell phone, at some point you're likely to upgrade to a newer model. But what should you do with your old phone?

Technology / Other

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Google Voice telecom service opens to all in US

Internet giant Google has opened its Google Voice telecommunications service to anyone in the United States interested in using a single telephone number for all of their phones.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

For needy, cell phones can be free

An obscure federal program that helps poor people pay for phone service is entering the wireless era. Cell phone companies are offering the needy a bargain that the rest of us can only dream about: free service.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

On new cell phones, QWERTY eases out 1-2-3

(AP) -- Goodbye, numeric cell phone keypads. You're going the way of the rotary dial. Touch screens and QWERTY keyboards will take over from here, thank you.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Spy software watches BlackBerry email/photos

US software firm Retina-X Studios on Tuesday released a more vigilant version of its Mobile Spy program that captures every email and picture from BlackBerry smartphones.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Digital business cards move networking off paper

With more than 40,000 direct professional contacts on LinkedIn, Steven Burda wants to ensure he always has up-to-date information to maintain his network. He couldn't resist signing up for a digital business card, where users' ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers develop hands-free texting application

Clemson University researchers have developed a hands-free alternative to cell phone texting while driving.

Technology / Software

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says

The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Low-power version of Bluetooth coming for watches

(AP) -- A new version of the Bluetooth wireless technology could expand what can be done by watches, toys, home sensors, medical monitors and other devices that typically have been limited in their functions because they ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Tech firms aim to keep wayward walkers on path

(AP) -- Todd Atwood says he doesn't worry too much about accidents when walking down the street using his iPhone to make calls, send text messages or check his e-mail. But he's seen the consequences of paying ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0