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DOT bars commercial drivers from texting at wheel
(AP) -- The Transportation Department said Tuesday it is prohibiting truck and bus drivers from sending text messages on hand-held devices while operating commercial vehicles.
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Fight against fat goes high-tech with new devices
(AP) -- The fight against fat is going high-tech. To get an inside look at eating and exercise habits, scientists are developing wearable wireless sensors to monitor overweight and obese people as they go ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Attention Demands May Explain Why Texting While Driving Is So Dangerous
(PhysOrg.com) -- A timely study in the journal Human Factors suggests why texting while driving is riskier than talking on a cell phone or with another passenger. Human factors/ergonomics researchers at the University of Uta ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 21, 2009 |
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BlackBerry users dealing with e-mail outage
(AP) -- BlackBerry users in North America faced delays in receiving e-mail on their devices Thursday.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Twitter gets more business friendly
Twitter is testing a way to let businesses better use the popular microblogging service in what could be a future money-making opportunity.
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Court to review employer access to worker messages
(AP) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts.
Dec 15, 2009 |
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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
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Swipe Your Credit Card on a Cell Phone
(PhysOrg.com) -- With a small card reader that attaches to a cell phone, a new company is making it easier for small businesses and even individuals to accept credit card payments. The San Francisco start-up, ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 07, 2009 |
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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
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police
(AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion.
Nov 28, 2009 |
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Wikileaks releases pager intercepts from 9/11
Whistleblower website Wikileaks began publishing on Wednesday what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam
South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline
(AP) -- Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Mobile multimedia revenues tipped to dethrone text
Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday.
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original
(AP) -- The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 11, 2009 |
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