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52% Of People Used Their Phone To Help With Holiday Shopping

Smartphones are becoming more and more a part of our everyday lives. In fact, some people, when asked if there was one thing they could live without, say their phone. Over the years, cell phones got smaller ... continue

Phone Stacking Game Goes Viral, Forces Dinner Conversations

Are you addicted to your cell phone so much that you can't even put it down when eating with your friends and/or family? The latest phone stacking game craze just might be the thing to help you ... continue

Insurance group: Cell phone bans not effective in reducing crashes

As much as many drivers don't want to admit it, cell phones and mobile devices are, in fact, a distraction - but do state bans on cell phones while driving actually work? Apparently not, according to a ... continue

Samsung Cell Phone Sales Reach Higher Than 300 Million Units In 2011

Thanks to its recent success in the Google Android Smartphone market electronics manufacturer Samsung has announced the sale of more than 300 million cell phones in 2011. According to the company they surpassed that milestone by the ... continue

Wireless carriers think that free alerts will help with “bill shock”

Last year the FCC, after much public pressure, agreed to look into the billing practices of the wireless carriers after people complained about unexpected overages and the astronomical fees charged by the carriers on those overages. Well today ... continue

Researchers discover poopy lies about cell phone cleanliness

In our world of heightened cleanliness we all like to claim that we are so clean and in love with our travel bottles of Purcell but it seems that when it comes to our cell phones some ... continue

Cell Phone Service Stayed Mostly Steady During Irene, Landlines Affected

For many on the East Coast, Hurricane Irene blew through and did very little damage save for fallen branches and intermittent loss of power. Others experienced extensive flooding and many areas remain in the dark due to storm ... continue

Smartphone Warning: Digital Wallets Could Increase Prices, Leave Consumers Without Basic Protections

Smartphone manufacturers are making a big push into digital wallets but the cost to consumers and merchants could lead to higher prices at the register and less protection for consumers. Services currently offering or preparing to offer digital ... continue

Leonardo DiCaprio Makes $5 Million For One Commercial

Leonardo DiCaprio made $5 million this month for one day worth of work. The actor, who often makes upwards of $20 million per movie, plus a cut of the gross, starred in a Chinese cell phone commercial ... continue

Sec. of Transportation on rampage, could include disabling cell phones in vehicles

Around 5,000 people, according to Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, die every years due to using cell phones while driving. He feels it is so bad that the government may have to step in and required the ... continue

Why other people’s cell conversations make you stabby

I must admit, I've always thought people who complain about cell users in public were just being whiny. As it turns out, researchers have found that hearing half of a conversation had by others on their cell phones ... continue

FCC wants your feedback on deceptive cellular billing

Have you ever logged onto your cell phone's account to discover a massive amount of charges you had no idea you were ringing up? The average American consumer may often struggle to understand the manner in which certain ... continue

Top 20 Cell Phones Of 2009. From Business To Personal Devices Companies Delivered

2009 was a great year to be a cell phone user. From the iPhone 3GS to WebOS and Google Android devices, there were literally hundreds of phones to choose from. Here's our list of the top 20 ... continue

Maine Proposes “Cancer Warning Labels” For Cell Phones

While there has been no direct links to brain cancer and cell phones, the state of Maine doesn't want to take any chances. According to recent reports the legislator in that state are proposing warning labels for ... continue

4.1 Billion text messages sent every day in the US

In the semi-annual CTIA Wireless Industry Survey there were a lot of interesting facts and figures but of them all it has to be the fact that some 740 billion text messages were sent ... continue

Hugh Jackman tells cell phone user to STFU during performance

Hugh Jackman was performing in "A Steady Rain" with Daniel Craig on Wednesday when an someone in the audience's cell phone started to ring. He wasn't pleased. Video below: continue

Play illegal music on cellphone and find it shut down

Word is beginning to trickle out of Japan that the country’s government and music companies are trying to get a pioneering system in place that is designed to stop unauthorized copying of music on ... continue

Excuse me? $50,000 for texting? for a 15-year old?

Okay, okay, so texting is popular. Everyone is doing but way ahead of the bell curve has to be the pre-teens and teens as they bruise their thumbs in order to stay cool, or ... continue

Gee tell us something we didn’t know

I caught this one via Allen Stern’s post at CenterNetworks, but did you know that 35% of teens admit to cheating using their cell phones and that 23% don’t consider it cheating. This comes ... continue

Don’t have a smartphone – you’re a chump

It wasn’t really that long ago when the idea of having a carphone literally meant having a phone in your car and which you paid a really hefty price for. Then came the early ... continue

Who has the best mobile penetration data? Not the FCC

As the agency tasked with keeping track of all things telecommunication based one would think that it would be the FCC who would have the most accurate numbers regarding wireless penetration in the US. ... continue

Technology to take power usage through the roof

Last year the world spent $80 billion (USD) on electricity to power all the gadgets we can’t seem to do without anymore. This poser demand has increased due to the rise in computers, MP3 ... continue