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Which group of Americans texts the most?

Posted September 19, 2011 - 5:08 pm

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. cell phone owners regularly send and receive text messages.
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Radiation isn't really a problem, but cell phones can still kill

Posted June 6, 2011 - 12:55 pm

Environmental Working Group has a better handle on the specifics of what your cell phone is putting out, and a more honest answer, than the manufacturer. Just in case your office is packed with users asking whether the iPhones you passed out are going to kill them.
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Rapturists take note: Nokia closes at 6.66!

Posted June 3, 2011 - 4:31 pm

Further proof that Nokia just went through a week in hell.
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AT&T gets into the mobile ad business

Posted February 28, 2011 - 4:28 pm

Trying to get a piece of the potentially huge mobile ad market, wireless carrier AT&T on Monday announced a location-based mobile messaging service that would deliver special offers from advertisers to subscribers' phones.
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When mobile spam turns deadly

Posted January 29, 2011 - 2:12 am

A mass tragedy was averted on New Year's Eve in Moscow, thanks to a spam message sent to a female terrorist who reportedly intended to detonate a suicide belt in a packed Red Square.
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Another phone thing Europeans do better

Posted December 29, 2010 - 4:52 pm

U.S. phone makers will standardize on the same charger; Euros did it first and are putting it into effect starting in 2011. Don't throw out your old cords yet.
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Bring dead spots back to life with cell-phone access point

Posted December 1, 2010 - 2:15 pm

Femtocells are more expensive than WiFi access points, and not as easily managed. But they offer a way to extend your mobile net inside the building as well as out.
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13 Tips to Supercharge Your 'Dumb' Phone

Posted June 2, 2010 - 6:27 am

Smartphones are expensive. Ordinary, "dumb" cell phones are cheap. The trade-off is that basic candy-bar phones are inferior and no fun, and they can't perform highfalutin tasks such as play Super Monkey Ball. Well, that's what you thought.
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Supercharge Your Phone: 40 Tips and Tricks

Posted May 31, 2010 - 6:34 am

Looking for an easy out from a lousy date? Feeling like a rat in a phone-tree maze? Wishing that someone could transcribe your voicemail messages and e-mail them to you? With this assortment of phone tips, tricks, and services, you'll be able to navigate your phone with MacGyver-like ingenuity.
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Best Cell Phones by Carrier

Posted April 30, 2010 - 11:13 am

Shopping for a cell phone can be overwhelming; after all, these devices do a whole lot more than just make phone calls. They also come in a variety of shapes, sizes, prices, operating systems, and user interfaces. So which carrier has the best selection of phones? It really depends on what you're looking for.
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Top 10 Smartphone Easter Eggs

Posted April 2, 2010 - 10:18 am

For the un-initiated, the term Easter Egg is geek parlance for secret gags and goofs buried deep inside software. Now as cell phones have hit mass appeal, perhaps it's no surprise that Easter eggs have snuck into our handhelds.
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Device won't let you lose your phone

Posted January 4, 2010 - 8:29 am

A startup called ZOMM plans to unveil and accept an award for a new cell phone peripheral device at CES. The gadget performs several welcome tasks.
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Holiday gift ideas: cell phones, smartphones and accessories

Posted November 23, 2009 - 5:02 pm

Going mobile? Check out a bunch of phones, smart or otherwise, plus other tools.
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T-Mobile Equinox Makes the 'Dumb Phone' Fun Again

Posted October 27, 2009 - 12:28 pm

T-Mobile is launching a new phone-- the Sony Ericsson Equinox. Unlike most headline-making mobile phones, the Equinox is not trying to be the next iPhone-killer. The Equinox isn't even trying to be a smart phone.
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How the Brain Works: Multitasking and Multitaskers- More Means Less

Posted October 20, 2009 - 2:53 pm

Today, multitasking seems to be the norm, but recent studies show that heavy multitaskers perform below average.
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California cell phone law snares First Lady

Posted October 19, 2009 - 7:38 am

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has promoted a new law banning talking on a cell phone while driving as an important safety measure, so it was obviously something of an embarrassment when his wife was spotted driving and chatting into a handset -- but not perhaps for the reasons you might think.
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How Wireless Carriers Gouge You--And How to Fight Back

Posted October 17, 2009 - 8:59 pm

Are you paying too much for your cell phone and its services? Even if you're sticking to your monthly allocation of minutes and messages, you might still be paying more than you have to.
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Six Super-Hot GPS Mobile Phones

Posted October 14, 2009 - 11:00 am

Why buy a dedicated GPS unit when you can walk, talk and find your way on-the-go using your mobile phone?
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CTIA Wireless 2009: Fall's Hottest Handsets

Posted October 13, 2009 - 2:15 pm

While Android phones are starting to enter carriers' lineups, most of the new phones launched at the recent CTIA wireless telecommunications trade show ran Windows Mobile 6.5. A few inexpensive--but well-equipped--feature phones also debuted, further blurring the line between what is and what isn't a smartphone.
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There's no such thing as a 'business cell phone'

Posted October 9, 2009 - 8:37 pm

JD Power announced today that the Apple's iPhone ranked No. 1 in customer satisfaction for "smartphones in business," beating out LG and BlackBerry.
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Nokia's testing lab is a cell phone's chamber of horrors

Posted October 7, 2009 - 1:39 pm

Just about everybody has dropped a cell phone at one time or another. The engineers at Nokia's testing lab in San Diego have seen and heard all the phone disaster stories and have designed hundreds of tests with the idea of improving Nokia cell phone quality.
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You ready for a wristwatch cell phone yet?

Posted October 5, 2009 - 2:09 pm

San Diego-based Kempler & Strauss this morning rolled out an incredible $199 wristwatch cell phone called the W PhoneWatch. The gadget sports a calendar, address book, a calculator, stopwatch, a vibration mode for silent alarms, a no-stylus touch screen, microSD slot and the ability to both take and play pictures and videos. How cool is that?
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Garmin nuvifone to be released on Oct. 4

Posted September 29, 2009 - 4:25 pm

When first we heard of Garmin's nüvifone (if it's got an umlaut, it has to be good, right?), it was in the cold winter days of February 2008 and the device was supposed to ship in the third quarter of that year. Fast forward to Tuesday, when Garmin announced the device would finally arrive in the U.S. on October 4 as an AT&T exclusive. Oh well, close enough for government work.
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Microsoft's Secret Pink Phones Pictured

Posted September 24, 2009 - 9:23 pm

A day after Microsoft's Courier concept (a double-screen tablet) leaked and surprised many with its coolness, Redmond rumors hit the snooze bar again with leaked images of two new Microsoft-branded phones.
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On the road: Testing wireless voice and data on the highways

Posted September 7, 2009 - 7:17 pm

Marc Lefevre is the up-to-date, real-life equivalent of the "Can you hear me now?" guy from the Verizon Wireless TV ads that grew popular in 2004. But don't call him that.
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