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Study Reveals Your Cell Phone May Be the First Thing Others Notice About You
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New Jersey Town Raises a Ruckus for Ticketing Pedestrians Who Text or Talk on the Phone [VIDEO]
You’ve probably seen the countless YouTube videos of people so transfixed by their mobile phones that they walk into inanimate objects or fall into fountains.
And while it’s easy to laugh at such incidents, the truth is that distracted pedestrians can cause serious harm to themselves or other people — and now one New Jersey town is taking a stand.
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Is Texting Bad for the Future of Democracy?
Don't laugh. A recent Nielsen study shows that Americans between the ages of 13 and 17 exchange, on average, 3,417 text messages a month. That’s one every eight minutes during the waking day, and that's just the average. Many people send and receive even more texts than that.
A growing number of scientists and sociologists say this national addiction to cell phone technology is not just bad for those who're doing it. It's also bad for the future of our society and our form of government. Read on.
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There Will Soon Be More Cell Phones Than People in the World
Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast makes some interesting (some may say frightening) predictions, including the fact that the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population sometime this year.
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AT&T’s Unlimited Data Plans May Not Be So Unlimited After All
AT&T Wireless customers with unlimited data plans are crying foul over a policy that seemingly punishes the heaviest users, throttling their download speeds to a snail’s pace.
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Verizon Will Charge YOU a Fee for Paying THEM
Most companies are happy if their customers pay their bills on time, by whatever means, but not Verizon. Verizon is taking "accounts receivable" to the next level.
Starting January 15th, 2012, Verizon will start charging its customers a $2 dollar fee for paying their bills Online or by phone.
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Sorry Drivers, Hands-Free Devices Aren’t Safer Options to Cell Phones
In response to the National Transportation Safety Board-proposed ban on cellphones while driving, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers tried to defend hands-free devices. They’re “designed to be used in a way that helps drivers keep their eyes on the road,” they said, but now it looks like this defense doesn’t hold water.