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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 ...
Mubarak Regime Forces Cell Phone Companies to Text Its Messages
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- Anti-government protesters in Egypt used their cell phones to organize and broadcast their uprising to the world. Now the embattled regime of President Hosni Mubarak has realized that it can also use the same technology to fight its opponents. Over the past five days, Egyptians have been hit with a steady stream of pro-Mubarak text messages. "Youth of Egypt, beware rumors and listen to the sound of reason -- Egypt is above all so preserve it," read one text, according to a photograph and translation posted on this Flickr account. Another, received Sunday by an Associated Press ...
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 ...
Report: Charles Manson Caught With Cell Phone in Prison
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Dec. 3) -- Perhaps he was just calling for a friendly chat. But when Charles Manson was caught with a cell phone under his mattress, prison guards couldn't be so sure. The Los Angeles Times reports that Manson made calls and sent texts to California, New Jersey, Florida and British Columbia before guards found the contraband phone. AFP / Getty Images Charles Manson, seen here in March 2009, is serving a life sentence for murder. It's not clear whom the convicted killer was dishing with over his LG flip phone, but Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of ...
Emergency Broadcast System Coming to Cell Phones
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- The Emergency Broadcast System that interrupts TV programming in times of crisis is jumping to a new format where it might be able to reach you better -- on your cell phone. The communications company Alcatel-Lucent announced Tuesday that it's creating a Broadcast Message Center that will allow government agencies to send cell phone users specific information in the event of a local, state or national emergency. It will be similar to the TV alerts in that the text messages will be geographically targeted for areas where a tornado alert or major road closure, for example, is in ...
Parents Angry Over Video of Daughter Killed in Crash
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Oct. 19) -- A Georgia couple were devastated to learn that a someone took a graphic cell-phone video of their daughter moments after she was killed in a car crash and shared the footage with others. And they're angry because they say it shows the first responders didn't rush to check on her. "I don't know which one's worse," Lucretia Kempson said on NBC's "Today" show. "Seeing the video of my daughter -- it hurts because I didn't want to see her that way. But hearing them with no urgency to see if she was OK really upset us." Dayna Kempson-Schacht, 23, was killed July 17 when her SUV ...
Ohio Mom Indicted on Charges of Teaching Child to Smoke Pot
By Stuart Warner - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- A Cincinnati-area woman has been indicted on charges related to teaching her 2-year-old daughter to smoke marijuana. And a video on her cell phone provided the evidence against her, according to Hamilton County, Ohio, officials. On the video, which was provided by the county prosecutor's office, the little girl takes several puffs of a joint. Once she waves her hand trying to disperse the smoke around her face. A woman's voice can be heard in the background, apparently coaching her: "Don't blow on it." "What's quite disconcerting is she is handling this like she's done this ...
UN Calls Out BlackBerry, RIM, Over Data Security
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- When it comes to data security issues, there is a blurry line between private sectors and government -- particularly if the BlackBerry is involved. The secretary-general of the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure, is attempting to define that gray area in favor of his constituents, calling on BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion to allow government law enforcement agencies access to user information, according to The Associated Press. Toure believes that governments engaged in fighting terrorism have the right to request the customer ...
Patrick Boivin: Master of the Viral Video
By Tony Deconinck - AOL News(July 27) -- It begins -- as so many stories do -- with three ninjas fighting over a cell phone. The phone was the Google Nexus One, and the ninjas were performing the most awesome unboxing ceremony in history. While most companies are content to let the usual glut of bloggers perform their breathless and painstaking review of each new tech toy, the ninjas attacked the offending Nexus One box with an explosive display of acrobatic attacks, eventually using their swords to reduce the box to a defeated pile of cardboard scraps. From the heap, the ninjas delicately removed the accessories, ...
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