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33 min ago | The Baltimore Sun

Cellphones: Preserving a tool, combating a threat

In less than a generation, mobile communications have evolved from a luxury item to an essential element of everyday life.

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Related Topix: Wireless, Emerging Technology, Prison, Opinion

1 hr ago | 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: Cell Phones, Electronics

3 hrs ago | 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, Cell Phones, Electronics, State Prisons

6 hrs ago | 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, Cell Phones, Electronics

7 hrs ago | The Independent

Love don't cost a ring-ring...Jennifer Lopez launches her own mobile phone store chain

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Related Topix: Dance, Jennifer Lopez, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Out of Sight, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Electronics, Crime Movies, Cell Phones, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Celebrities, J Lo

9 hrs ago | The Tribune

Okla. men get video of deadly tornado overhead

Two Oklahoma teens were able to use their cell phones from inside a storm shelter to get video of a deadly tornado as it passed through.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK

Wed May 22, 2013

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, Cell Phones, Electronics, Social Software

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, Cell Phones, Electronics

The Miami Herald

Jennifer Lopez to open cellphone stores

Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez says she's opening a chain of cellphone stores and a website under the Viva Mobil brand.

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

Business Times

Axiata weighing bid for PT Axis Indonesia

HONG KONG: Axiata Group Bhd, Malaysia's largest mobile-phone operator, is evaluating a bid for PT Axis Telekom Indonesia, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

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Related Topix: PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Telecom, Cell Phones, Electronics

WECT-TV Wilmington

Two new cell phone towers coming to Pender County

The company says they evaluated the area and are trying to fill voids in coverage.

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Related Topix: Pender County, NC, Cell Phones, Electronics

ComputerWorld

Telcos to stop charging for 1800 calls from mobiles

The telecom industry has supported a proposal by the government to make mobile phone calls to 1800 numbers free by 2015.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Electronics

Textually.org

Mobile Phones for Women's Empowerment

The proliferation of mobile phones in low- and middle-income countries over the past decade has been rapid and remarkable.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Electronics

KOLN-TV Lincoln

Lincoln Man Captures Twister on Camera

A Lincoln man captured on his cell phone camera the massive twister that tore through Moore, Oklahoma as he was just driving through, on his way back home to Nebraska following a hunting trip.

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Related Topix: Lincoln, NE

Tue May 21, 2013

Common Dreams

5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations

The journalism world has been rightly outraged by the Justice Department dragging the Associated Press into one of its sprawling leak investigations.

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Related Topix: Privacy, US News, Liberal Political News

The New Zealand Herald

Eurovision rocked by voting scandal

The head of Azerbaijan's state broadcaster has questioned the vote tally in the Eurovision Song Contest where it embarrassingly gave "nul points" to the entry from neighbouring Russia.

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Related Topix: Azerbaijan, Asia, World News

Austinist

'Unbelievable' Video: Oklahoma Storm's Birth

Kasey Clark sorts through the debris of her grandmother-in-law Thelma Cox's mobile home after it was destroyed by a tornado.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Seven plead guilty in smuggling cellphones, drugs in Beeville prison

A 23-page indictment accuses 32 people of taking bribes and participating in illegal schemes and racketeering activity to protect and expand criminal operations from January 2009 until their arrests.

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Related Topix: Prison, Beeville, TX

Loudoun Times

Sterling-based Neustar evolves with the times

Editor's note: This story appeared in the spring edition of the Loudoun Business Journal .

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Related Topix: Startups, NeuStar Inc., NeuStar, Ipad, Science / Technology, Marketing

Daily Mail

94% of UK adults would rather live without sex than their mobile phone

The vast majority of Britons would prefer to go without sex than live without their mobile phones, a survey suggests.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Electronics