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51 min ago | Scotsman.com

Aberdeen Council to spend A 860k on school phones

A SCOTTISH council, which is currently consulting on a series of controversial school closures, sparked outrage today by announcing proposals to spend an estimated 860,000 to ensure every pupil has access to a smartphone in the classroom.

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Related Topix: Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Cellphones, Electronics, Wireless, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technology

5 hrs ago | KIMA

Dialing 911 in Yakima from a cell phone has its limits

You call 911 and you expect someone to answer on the other end. Even, from your cell phone.

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Related Topix: Electronics, Yakima, WA

9 hrs ago | CNN

FCC hopes to avoid 'end of world' for cell phones

The path to clearing up enough airwaves to satisfy the insatiable demand for mobile downloads is a confusing, complicated mess.

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Related Topix: Business News, Federal Communications Commission, Cellphones, Electronics, Wireless, Emerging Technology

Fri May 24, 2013

Click Orlando

High-Tech Cell Phone Spying

Since the FBI was founded over 100 years ago in 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has always used the highest forms of technology to track down prospective criminals.

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Related Topix: Cellphones, Electronics, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Defense Law, Law, ACLU

Retailwire.com

Will JLo Succeed as Mobile Phone Merchant?

Jennifer Lopez has a new role and this time it's on the really small screen. Ms. Lopez is the new creative force and majority shareholder behind Viva Movil, a new mobile retail concept catering to Latinos.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Dance, Electronics, J Lo, Jennifer Lopez, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Cellphones, Wireless, Emerging Technology

Ogdensburg Courier-Observer/Journal

Teens face obscenity charges in nude-texting case

Three Norfolk-area teens face obscenity charges after they allegedly transmitted nude photos via mobile phone messages, state police at Massena said Friday.

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Related Topix: Norfolk, NY, Electronics, Massena, NY, Raymondville, NY, Norwood, NY

The Kansas City Star

Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military

Sseven girls from Heartland Elementary School in the Blue Valley School District, now mostly middle-schoolers at Harmony or Aubry Bend, for a few years had been competing in an international problem-solving educational program, Odyssey of the Mind.

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Related Topix: Electronics, United States Naval Academy

13WHAM

Man Arrested For Robbery, Grand Larceny

Charles J. Jenkins, 29, has been arrested for robbery and grand Larceny, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

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Related Topix: Monroe County, NY, Electronics, Pittsford, NY

Lancashire Evening Post

Fraudulent mobile phones sold in Preston

Police have issued a CCTV image of two men they want to trace in connection with the fraudulent sale of mobile phones.

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Related Topix: Electronics

Thu May 23, 2013

StarPulse.com

Jennifer Lopez launching cell phone stores for Latinos

Superstar Jennifer Lopez is opening her chain of own cell phone stores targetted at the Latin community.

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Related Topix: Cellphones, Electronics, Verizon Communications, Telecom, Verizon, IT Services

Bangkok Post

3G sells phones

A record-high 25 million mobiles and tablets are expected to be sold this year on the back of faster wireless broadband and a tremendous shift in demand to third-generation smartphones.

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Related Topix: Cellphones, Electronics

KMIZ

Guns, drugs in new Trayvon Martin evidence

Items taken from Trayvon Martin's cell phone -- including a text-message discussion of drug use and pictures of a gun and marijuana plants -- are among new details released Thursday by attorneys for the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of killing him without provocation 14 months ago.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Electronics, Violent Crime

Patch.com

Emergency? In Fairfax, There's a Text for That

Fairfax County is now part of a new system that automatically sends text messages to area phone users during the most dire of emergencies.

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Related Topix: Fairfax County, VA, Cellphones, Electronics

The Economist

Crime and punishment: Cell phones

MOST of the roughly 2.2m incarcerated Americans will eventually be freed. Those who remain in contact with loved ones on the outside are less likely, studies show, to return to a life of crime after serving their time.

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Related Topix: Prison, Cellphones, Electronics, State Prisons

ComputerWorld

Twitter aims to become safer with two-step sign-in

Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Cellphones, Electronics, Social Software

The Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous

Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Google+, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Spotify, Electronics

Las Cruces Sun-News

Ex-Verizon salesman gave Mesilla victim's phone records to accused murderer

A former cell phone salesman testified Wednesday that, after months of requests, he wrongfully and secretly emailed Gilles Delisle's bills to Eugene Ferri, the man accused of killing Delisle, his wife and their business partner in 2010 near Mesilla.

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Related Topix: Mesilla, NM, Electronics, Las Cruces, NM, Dona Ana County, NM

Wed May 22, 2013

AccuWeather.com

Survey Teams Assign Moore, Okla., Tornado EF-5 Rating

Workers continue to dig through the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, Electronics

Nashoba Publishing Online

Apple's iPhone loses ground to Samsung in consumer survey

While still maintaining a lead in customer satisfaction, Apple is seeing the distance between competitors such as Samsung and Motorola closing.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Cellphones, Electronics

Williamson Herald

FPD requests help finding cell phone crooks

Detectives in the Franklin Police Department have uncovered new video of two men wanted for stealing a total of seven cell phones from Walmart, AT&T and Verizon in Cool Springs.

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Related Topix: Electronics