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Video: Teens Charged for Sexting Under New Pennsylvania Law
Two unidentified Salem Middle School students in Greensburg, Pennsylvania have been charged under the state's new sexting law, which bans teens from...
Radiation from Cell Phone Towers Won't Harm Kids
From Katie: “Any thoughts on cell phone towers being placed on an elementary school’s property?” Radiation. Powerful enough to turn...
Your Cell Phone Habit Could be Harming Your Child
Checking your e-mails incessantly could be harming your child. Here's why. Ellen S.: It's one of the first truly gorgeous spring days in New York...
10 Best Cell Phones for Limiting Exposure to Radiation
New cell phones in 2010 are loaded with new features. For some models, like Motorola’s Droid, Blackberry Bold 9700, LG Chocolate Touch and...
An Alternative to Laws Against Texting While Driving?
By Wayne Crews You can put on makeup while driving, fiddle with your GPS and iPod or reach back to pinch your annoying kid in the back seat, but don...
Google Searches for Success With Its First Cell Phone, Nexus One
Common Web wisdom says: Don't bet against Google. But will the online giant's next move in the telecommunications sector be a smashing success or a...
For the Last Time, Cell Phones Do NOT Cause Brain Cancer
By Michael Fumento If you’re getting a headache from spending to much time on your cell phone, it’s probably from yakking too much. But it’s not from...
New Study Says Cell Phones Do NOT Cause Brain Cancer
By Ronald Bailey In September, the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, a.k.a. the U.S. Senate, held hearings on the perennial claim that the...
Should We Be Worried About Cell Phones and Cancer?
by Ryan Young CNN reports: “Last summer, Dr. Ronald Herberman, then director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, issued a warning to...
There's No Way to Enforce Texting-While-Driving Ban
by Radley BalkoForget flu season. Several times per year, America comes down with a national case of TOBAL-itis. TOBAL is short for "There Oughtta Be...
Should Young Children be Given Cell Phones?
For many adults, cell phones are a necessity. But when it comes to satisfying the desire to be constantly connected, how young is too young to carry...
Study Says Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors-Are You Safe?
Several years ago a caller to "The Larry King Show" claimed he got a brain tumor from using his cell phone. It set off a nationwide frenzy about the...
2 Firemen Killed in Los Angeles Wildfires
The wildfires in Los Angeles doubled in size early Monday morning, now burning 134 square miles of brush and trees. The fire is only a half mile from...
FCC Back in Business, Targets Cell Phones
Don’t look now, but the FCC is back in business. For some nine months the Federal Communications Commission had been operating with no permanent...
Our Cell Phones Are Tracking Us-"We Need Protection"
by Jim Harper Jeff Jonas has published an important post: “Your Movements Speak for Themselves: Space-Time Travel Data is Analytic Super-Food!” More...
FCC Investigates Apple's Rejection of iPhone App
How awesome is the iPhone? As a proud owner—I camped out overnight to get 2008's 3G model—I'll vouch for its addictive niftyness, and admit that I...
Texting While Driving is Dangerous; Should it be Illegal?
If you like to text while you drive, here's a word of advice: Stop! At least that's what a first-ever study of the risks of texting while...
Cell Phone Exclusivity is the Opposite of Monopoly
By Jack O'Connor The web is all aflutter in the debate over handset exclusivity. Harold Feld of Public Knowledge describes in a recently posted video...
Let's Fly Safe -- Keep Ban on In-Flight Cell Phone Use
If you get a chance, take a minute and do your part for airline safety and passenger sanity. The Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) ) is urging the U.S...
Should Apple Ban Porn Web Apps for iPhones?
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. --- There seems to be confusion over whether Apple allows adult content on its iPhone Apps. On June 26, the media reported that...