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Libyan Rebels Reboot Cellphone Service After Gadhafi's Shutdown
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsLibyan rebels who'd resorted to waving flags to communicate after Moammar Gadhafi cut off the Internet have now rebooted a local cellphone network for their own use. The new network, rigged up with help from U.S.-trained Arab engineers, is giving many Libyans their first chance in a month to contact loved ones and see if they're dead or alive. The Libyan dictator shut down all Internet service and mobile phone links to the rebel-held east more than a month ago. And as chaos and fighting spread, outages have hit huge swaths of the whole country as well. Chris Hondros, Getty ...
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Is Your Cell Phone's Radiation Level Safe? Don't Call the FCC
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsMore than 200 million people in the U.S. talk on cell phones a total of at least 12 hours a month -- some double or triple that amount. Almost everyone admits that cell phones emit radiation when they link to the closest tower. What almost no one can agree on is whether that radiation is harmful to those holding their phones to their ears. Amid this confusion comes a report from health and safety activists that the government's cell phone watchdog -- the Federal Communications Commission -- is putting industry desires before public well-being. Investigators for the Environmental Working ...
Google Promotes Nexus S on Twitter as the Future of Advertising Takes Shape
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- Google and Twitter sitting in a tree ... Two days after officially introducing the Nexus S, Google marketing went viral after the company promoted its new Android phone via a Twitter trend. Reception to the Nexus S thus far has been mixed, ranging from CNET's "Six Things Not to Love About the Nexus S" to a quite positive Tech Crunch review declaring the mobile device in a toss-up with the iPhone. For a glimpse at what the phone can do, here is a Nexus S marketing video from Google: The promoted trend is the latest evidence of a hardly denied love affair between the search ...
On Mother's Day: Pick Up the Phone!
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyI'm very close to my mother, but I hardly talk to her anymore. Now in her 80s, she has developed short-term memory loss and quite a few quirks. One of them is to sometimes unplug the phone (she unplugs everything "to prevent fires"). Another is to always close doors. So when she's watching TV in one room, the phone lies somewhere else unplugged or unheard. When I call, I stay on the line as the phone rings and rings, on the off chance that it's working or that she'll hear it. As I write, I haven't talked to my mom in more than two weeks. I live in New York, she lives in Puerto Rico, and the ...
Report: India Has More Cell Phones Than Toilets
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 19) -- In the global rush toward modernization, some luxuries are outpacing the necessities. According to a new study released by the United Nations University, more people in India now own cell phones than have access to proper sanitation, including the use of a toilet. In 2008, just 366 million of India's 1.2 billion people had access to a toilet, the report said, while 563.73 million were subscribers to a cell phone plan. "It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic ...
Mexico Targets Cell Phones in Anti-Crime Bid
By Jennifer Martinez - AOL News(April 13) -- Having failed to stymie the murderous influence of drug traffickers by bolstering the police force, scrutinizing bank movements or even deploying federal troops, the Mexican government this week is trying to get at them through their cell phones. A controversial law requiring all Mexicans to register their mobile phones by April 10 -- last Saturday -- was meant to shine a light on shady communications among nefarious dealers. But with the deadline's passing, an estimated 24.7 million cell phones in use by up to 30 percent of the Mexican population have not been registered. In a ...
Who Can Drive Safely While on Phone? 'Supertaskers'
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(April 3) -- It's become a common refrain in our modern, rampantly multitasking era: Driving while using a cell phone is a big no-no, a practice so dangerous it deserves to be outlawed, according to the increasingly urgent calls of legislators and ordinary citizens. Yet for a small minority of people, simultaneously burning rubber and minutes appears not only to be safe, but second nature. Call them the "supertaskers" -- the name given to a small group of extraordinarily high-performing subjects in a recent University of Utah psychology experiment that involved controlling a driving ...
Cell Phone Radiation Might Improve Memory
By not in system - AOL News(Jan. 6) -- Amid ongoing claims that long-term cell phone radiation may lead to brain tumors comes a new study suggesting the radio waves may protect and even reverse Alzheimer's disease, at least in mice. And the radiation gave mice without Alzheimer's a boost in brain activity. "It surprised us to find that cell phone exposure, begun in early adulthood, protects the memory of mice otherwise destined to develop Alzheimer's symptoms," Gary Arendash, lead author of the study and researcher at Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, said in a statement. Handout / AFP / Getty ...
BlackBerry E-Mail Outage Is Second in a Week
By not in system - AOL NewsTORONTO (Dec. 23) -- The second outage of BlackBerry service in less than a week frustrated people who depend on the messaging device and comes at a bad time for its maker, which faces increasing competition in the market it helped pioneer. BlackBerry subscribers often are so reliant on the devices that they peck at their keyboards all day and keep them on their night stands while they sleep. When e-mail and Web service on the devices went out Tuesday night, Twitter and other online forums were peppered with complaints. BlackBerry service was restored Wednesday morning, and the company ...
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