Tag: CELLPHONE

Cell phones, particularly fancy new smartphones, have become the bane of teachers across the nation -- not just because they provide an in-class distraction, but also because they've made it increasingly easy to cheat on exams. Officials in Taiwan have devised a solution to catch cheaters in the act using spectrum analyzers. Officials monitoring exams for government jobs used Rohde and Schwarz ...

An Atlanta, Georgia man has his cell phone to thank for saving his life. John Garber, a parking attendant at a local nightclub, was shot in the chest by two men after one of them was thrown out of the club earlier in the evening. Garber was struck in the breast, but his cell phone deflected the bullet. (A 'Ha!' to naysayers who thought the Evo was too bulky.) He sustained only minor injuries, ...

Share Do you open your laptop as soon as you wake up? Do you sneak out of the office to tweet from your smartphone? Do you get the shakes if you go several hours without visiting Switched? If so, you're not alone, because, according to a new study, we're all physically addicted to the meth of new media. The study, titled 'Unplugged,' was undertaken by the University of Maryland's International ...

Share An Idaho man was arrested Tuesday night after punching a teenager who wouldn't turn off his iPhone during their flight's final descent. According to Boise's KBOI-2.com, 68-year-old Russell Miller punched a 15-year-old boy in the arm because the teen continued playing games and listening to music on his phone after Southwest flight attendants had asked for all electronic devices to be turned ...

Apparently, U.S. residents between 25- and 29-years old have become the first age group to truly ditch the landline, as a full 51-percent of them are using cell phones exclusively. This is probably due in part to the fact that cell phones' address books make it much easier to keep track of all those numbers for our parents' home phones, cell phones, work phones, work cell phones... ...

American soldiers could soon find smartphones in their standard-issue equipment packages. The Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) is examining ways to modernize the U.S. military using gadgets like the iPhone, iPad, Kindle and Android handsets. In February, the Army will start testing phones and applications, and, in January, will start testing iPhone-based Common Access Card readers. ...

A group of inmates serving time at a Georgia corrections facility recently orchestrated a major, nonviolent strike in protest of state prison policy. And they did it with their contraband cell phones. The strike officially got underway on Thursday, and involved inmates from at least seven Georgia prison facilities. Prisoners abruptly refused to perform their daily chores, until authorities met ...

Having friends who subscribe to AT&T is a lot like having friends who date awful people. After each dropped call, missed text or garbled conversation, you can reason with them, or berate them, but they just won't give. ("Man, you just don't know AT&T like I do. When it's great, it's great! Have you seen my iPhone?!") Hopefully, reading this Consumer Reports bashing will have the effect of ...

Whereas Verizon's ads feature an inescapable horde of tech support workers following around cell phone users, NTT DoCoMo's "walk with you" campaign for the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S finds a silent Darth Vader supporting your guitar noodling, sightseeing and skateboarding. Maybe not the friendliest companion, but it's better than being followed around by Whoopi. ...

Share We've talked at great lengths about the changing nature of etiquette in the digital age, and one of the more nuanced guidelines has to do with answering your phone while in somebody's company. When you're hanging out with friends at a bar, and a straggler calls to get directions, it's certainly not impolite to answer the phone right then and there. When you're having a serious, one-on-one ...

Thanks to British research, you may soon be able to test yourself for sexually transmitted infections with nothing more than your smartphone and a wee bit of wee-wee. The U.K. Clinical Research Collaboration has funneled more than $6 million into developing a computer chip that, once dabbed with urine or saliva, can be plugged into a smartphone to render a diagnosis. ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. Last ...

When a massive earthquake struck Haiti last this year, the Red Cross managed to collect a total of $30 million in donations sent via text message. Since then, many other nonprofit organizations have tried to incorporate the Red Cross's SMS approach into their business models, but, as the New York Times reports, few have been able to do so successfully. The biggest hurdle most nonprofits face ...

Rumors of an impending Verizon iPhone deal have been swirling for weeks (if not years) now, and, on Friday, they were finally substantiated. In a recent profile of veteran Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, Fortune's Sarah Ellison confirmed that the telecom company will indeed launch a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 in "early 2011." Friday's confirmation comes after years of negotiations between ...

Verizon's data plan pricing structure underwent a major overhaul today, as the provider -- true to its CEO's word -- has officially rolled out a new, tiered system for mobile customers. Smartphone users with unlimited 3G data plans will still be able to blindly burn through megabytes for $29.99, but customers buying new Droids will now be able to opt for a limited, 150-megabyte monthly plan for ...