Washington: Texting and talking on cell phones behind the wheel kills more than 5,000 people every year on US highways. Teen drivers seem to be especially susceptible to distraction, a study says. A 2009 study focusing on drivers of larger vehicles and trucks has concluded that texting raised the risk of a crash by 23 times compared with non-distracted driving, says an environmental report. Environmental researcher Uvid Hosansky, who authored...
10:33 AM, May 21, 2012
Jodhpur: A top Rajasthan police official on Tuesday said it was not possible to put an end to use of mobile phones in prisons, but efforts were on to rope in service providers to curb their use by inmates. Reviewing the security arrangement in Jodhpur Central Jail in Jodhpur, Director General (Jail) Omendra Bhardwaj said curbing use of mobile phones in prisons remained a daunting task for officials and "it...
08:08 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday directed the CBI to return to Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa, a 2G telecom spectrum scam case accused, his BlackBerry mobile phones seized by the agency at the time of his arrest. "Accordingly, two mobile phones of accused Shahid Balwa, seized by CBI during investigation be returned to him against proper signature," Special CBI Judge OP Saini said after the prosecutor did...
09:41 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Mumbai: In what is perhaps the largest haul in the city, officers of the Crime Branch and Dongri police arrested a man in possession of 4,931 SIM cards on Wednesday night from a house at Sayed Manzil in Dongri, South Mumbai. With the arrest of the 24-year-old-man, the police recovered around 4,900 'khacha' SIM cards that were procured using false and forged documents. The cops are investigating if any more...
12:25 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Washington: US safety investigators called on Tuesday for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use while driving, a prohibition that would include certain applications of hands-free technology becoming more common in new cars. The National Transportation Safety Board recommendation covers portable devices only but still goes beyond measures proposed or imposed to date by regulators and states, most of which already ban texting while behind the wheel. "When...
10:45 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New York: Cellphones may bring relief to famine victims in parts of Somalia controlled by al Shabaab insurgents as donors seek new ways to circumvent the hard-line militants, a senior US official said on Tuesday. Rajiv Shah, head of the US Agency for International Development, or USAID, said that despite al Shabaab's ban on foreign aid in regions they control, progress was being made to reach about 2.7 million people...
04:02 PM, Sep 21, 2011
London: Imagine plugging your mobile into your T-shirt to charge its battery. It may sound a bit utopian but it's now a reality, thanks to scientists who've developed such a garment which uses loud music to power up a cell phone. A team at telecoms giant Orange has unveiled the new T-shirt that charges mobiles while one watches musical bands in action; users just have to plug their phones into...
12:46 PM, Jun 21, 2011
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09:24 PM, Jun 01, 2011
The WHO overturns its previous findings, says mobile phones can cause cancer. ...
10:50 AM, Jun 01, 2011
After battling with brain cancer, Alan Marks wants cell phone warnings to be mandatory. ...
02:40 PM, May 24, 2011
New York: Motorola breaks into two entities Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on Tuesday. Motorola's mobile unit includes handsets and set-top boxes that will continue to do business under the name Motorola Mobility, while the remaining Motorola changes its name to Motorola Solutions. It will sell police radios and barcode scanners to government and business customers. The US-based firm had announced in November last year that its board of directors...
02:49 PM, Jan 04, 2011
London: Moms-to-be, please note - regular use of cell phones during pregnancy could cause behavioural problems in your offspring, says a new study. Researchers at the University of California and the University of Southern California have found that the risk is even higher if the offspring start using mobiles themselves by the time they are seven. However, experts say that they are "sceptical" of the findings published in the latest...
05:02 PM, Dec 07, 2010
Studies are being done to find out the health hazards of living near a cell phone tower. ...
08:41 AM, Jun 07, 2010
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04:59 PM, May 01, 2010
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