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Fake Cop? Man Accused of Using Cell Phone App to Pull Over Driver
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThe app was on his cell -- and now the suspect is in his cell. Police in Idaho arrested 20-year-old driver Alexander A. Welch on charges of impersonating a police officer after the suspect allegedly pulled over another motorist on Saturday using a cell phone app with flashing red and blue lights. Law enforcement officials in Boise received a call from a worried driver who was concerned after being pulled over by a car with flashing lights that didn't look -- or behave -- like a police vehicle, according to the Idaho Statesman. When cops pulled over Welch, police say they found a cell phone ...
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 ...
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 ...
Supreme Court: Text Messages Not Immune From Company Search
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyCautiously, the Supreme Court waded into the field of cellphone and electronic device privacy Thursday, ruling that a California police chief's search of an officer's questionable text messages was allowable because it served a "legitimate work-related purpose." The unanimous decision in the case, City of Ontario v. Quon, was made narrowly as the high court steered clear of a sweeping opinion on privacy parameters for use of cellphones and other electronic communications equipment . The case involved a SWAT team officer who exceeded the monthly limit on text messaging from his ...
Network Flaw Puts Facebook Users in Wrong Account
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 19) - A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch - the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T - revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users. In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts. It doesn't appear the users could have done anything to stop it. ...
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 ...
Americans Say 'Good Riddance' to the Last Decade
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMay the next 10 years be better than the last 10, because by nearly two-to-one, a majority of Americans have a negative view about the decade drawing to a close, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Dec. 9-13. Fifty percent of those surveyed expressed a negative view of the 2000s, compared to 27 percent who viewed them positively, with 21 percent who held neither a positive nor negative view and 2 percent undecided. When those polled were asked to remember how they felt about previous decades, the positives outweighed the negatives dating back to the '60s, although, ...
Wrong Number: Phone Harassment on the Rise in Egypt
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyIt's a wrong number in so many ways. The BBC reports on the rising number of women in Egypt who report being sexually harassed over the phone, often by strangers. A recent survey put the number of women who were harassed or stalked over the phone at almost one out of four, mostly by men who are essentially cold-calling random numbers in the hopes of hearing a female voice on the other end of the line. Once they do, the calls keep coming. The upswing in harassment could be blamed on a number of factors: lack of enforcement of harassment laws, discomfort with reporting harassment, the harassers ...
Video: Gibbs Confiscates Reporter's Cellphone, Deters No-one
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAt today's White House Press Briefing, the assembled reporters spent most of the time having a go at Press Secretary Robert Gibbs regarding the prisoner abuse photos. However, there were some lighter moments.During one of Gibbs' answers, a reporter's phone rang very loudly. After what seemed like several embarrassed minutes, the man managed to quiet the phone. Several moments later, however, the guy's phone rings again, and Gibbs says "Give me the phone!"He took the phone and whisked it off to the press office behind him.Not to be outdone, another reporter's phone rang, ...
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