Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron's book analyses how mobile phones have revolutionised business, politics and ordinary life in India. ...
07:38 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The secret to being happy lies in turning off your mobile and concentrating on your friends and family rather than text messages and emails, a leading expert on happiness has claimed. ...
06:22 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Khap Panchayats on Monday came in the firing line after the Supreme Court took serious note of their directives denying women the right to carry mobile phones. The apex court questioned the directive as going against the law. ...
01:32 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban on Friday ridiculed the government's move to suspend mobile phone services at select locations to prevent terror attacks, saying it would have no impact on on their activities. "We do not carry out bombings through mobile phones. The Taliban cannot be stopped by jamming mobile phone services," Ihsanullah Ihsan, spokesman of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, said. "We would achieve our targets in any case, Ihsan was...
11:24 PM, Nov 23, 2012
On this episode of Living It Up, find out how to protect yourself from mobile phone tower radiation. ...
06:31 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Mumbai: India has the worst cellular tower radiation norms in the world. But from Saturday new guidelines are being implemented. Cellular towers will have to reduce the amount of radiation they emit to 1/10th of the current level. But is the new limit sufficient to reduce serious health risks, given that most countries in the world have radiation levels 1000 to 10,000 times lesser than India? 29-year-old Karmel Nair, a...
06:29 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Washington: Banning the use of mobile phones while driving may be ineffective as people who talk on their cell while being behind the wheel might already be unsafe drivers, a new MIT study has claimed. You can take the driver away from the cell phone, but you can't take the risky behaviour away from the driver, the new study from the MIT in Boston concludes. The findings may explain why...
11:07 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Following rumours leading to the mass exodus of the Northeast people from various cities, the Ministry of Home Affairs has banned bulk SMSes and MMSes for 15 days starting Friday. More than five SMSes or MMSes from one number cannot be sent in one go. MMSes have been restricted to 25k. The ban has been imposed throughout the country. This comes amidst rumours spreading panic amongst the people...
02:17 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New York: A 17-year-old boy who says he has "abnormally fast thumbs" has been named the fastest texter in America for the second year in a row. "It feels incredible," said Austin Wierschke of Rhinelander, Wis., after winning the sixth annual US LG National Texting Competition in Times Square on Wednesday. He gets $ 50,000 in prize money, which he says he'll save and use to pay for college, along...
11:02 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Islamabad: Fearing information leaks, the Pakistani government has barred the use of mobile phones during official meetings. The National Telecom and Information Technology Security Board cautioned that mobile phones could be used for dubious purposes if not handled carefully by senior officials, reported Dawn. The board noted that there are now multiple features like data storage, voice and SMS chatting, e-business and banking management, faster broadband applications and many other...
01:35 PM, Jul 18, 2012
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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