Tag: CELLPHONEBAN

America's killers and drug dealers might soon find themselves without even a cell phone to distract them from the everyday rigors of federal penitentiaries. As of right now, cell phones and wireless gadgets aren't classified as contraband by federal law, and prisoners found in possession of them are hardly ever punished. In a vote yesterday, though, the House of Representatives decided to close ...

The State of California enacted a cell-phone ban for teenage drivers in 2007, and a hands-free-only policy for everybody else in 2008. Since the latter date, the Highway Patrol has cited over 150,000 drivers for talking on their cells. The TMZ celebrity stalkers, ensuring that famous people be held to the same standards as the plebeians, have repeatedly caught one member of the California ruling ...

A panel of clerics from the Islamic group Jamia Ashraf-ul-Madaris in Kanpur, India has issued a fatwa concerning the use of aayat (verses of the Koran) as ringtones, according to FOX News. A senior cleric named Ghyasuddin told Fox News that the group believes such ringtones to be sinful, since the aayat will inevitably be cut short when a believer quickly answers his cell phone. The panel also ...

If you are addicted to your 'CrackBerry,' or just generally love being plugged-in at all times, you may want to tone it down a bit on your next trip to India. India's upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha, has witnessed an explosion of cell phone use in the country (277 million users to date) and they are not particularly thrilled by it. According to the Times of London, the Committee on ...