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Qwest Communications International Inc. said Thursday it will be ending its cell phone service on Oct. 31.
Whether you’re considering a first cell phone for your tween or teen or trying to limit various functions on your child’s existing phone, it’s important to understand the controls and technologies available today. Dr. Ruth Peters provides a step-by-step tech guide for parents.
Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don't know it — even though almost every newborn today is tested for what's called "sickle cell trait," and starting this summer more college athletes are getting tested, too.
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford wants to be moved from a private prison because he's been without air conditioning and shares a cell with up to 10 other inmates.
While heroic politicians all over America are mandating bicycle helmets, it's still legal to drive 4,000 pounds of steel 60 miles an hour while your brain is turned to the moron setting.
As long as seven years ago, the federal National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration recommended that drivers not use cell phones, even with hands-free equipment, while on the road except in emergencies. But that recommendation was never made public until today.
Donnie and Sharon Leutjen and their 15-year-old granddaughter, Taron Leutjen, were found June 9. They had been shot to death, and their bodies had lain in their home in Cole Camp, Mo., for about two days.
For more than a year, Virginia's largest women's prison rounded up inmates who had loose-fitting clothes, short hair or otherwise masculine looks, sending them to a unit officers derisively dubbed the "butch wing," prisoners and guards say.
Enticed by a BlackBerry? Crazy for an iPhone? I am. But before I ditch my cell phone for something snazzier, I’m taking a moment to consider what the future holds for my old device. Will this outdated cell end up bouncing around the back of a drawer with other obsolete phones? Or will my old cell phone live on my desk as a makeshift paperweight? Perhaps my toddler will bury it in the backyard with a handful of his puzzle pieces and one blue sock. Or maybe it will end up in the trash.
Pushed aside for the latest models, many of our old cell phones pile up in drawers, closets, garages and other out-of-the-way places where it’s easy to stash and forget them. Worse, some of them wind up in landfills, where their toxic elements are left to fester and contaminate the environment.
Amazon's Kindle might soon be getting new competitors in the market for electronic-book devices.
Nearly all of the talk these days about economizing focuses on how to get what we want but pay less for it. It’s all about how to get more for less.
Is your cell phone bill a budget buster? Maybe you should switch to a prepaid plan. The savings can be dramatic with pay-as-you-go wireless service.
March Madness is in the air. To be more specific, it's on airwaves that certain AT&T and Verizon Wireless phones can pick up, letting them show live NCAA basketball tournament games this season.
A showdown is shaping up in some of the nation's most conservative states over embryonic stem cell research, as opponents draw language and tactics from the battle over abortion to counter President Barack Obama's plan to ease research restrictions.
It isn't only the president who needs extra security for his BlackBerry. All of us with smartphones that have Internet access, e-mail and the ability to handle sensitive written or financial documents should consider paying closer attention to where and how we're using the devices, experts say.
Verizon Wireless has started selling a book-sized device that boosts cell phone signals within a home for $250, making it easier for people to drop a home phone line and rely solely on wireless.
More parents are looking to cell phones to help keep their children safe. But mom and dad should be aware: Kids who talk on a cell phone may be more likely to step into traffic, a new study shows.
If 2008 was the year of the “smartphone,” 2009 may be the year of the smarter consumer looking to save on phone costs by reducing service where they can, including in some cases, losing their land lines, using alternative wired line-options or moving to prepaid cell phones that don’t require a contract.
We take them with us to the dinner table, the bedroom, even the bathroom stall. But in recent years, some of us have started taking our beloved cell phones someplace really startling: the grave.
AT&T Inc., the country's largest wireless carrier, is testing a technology that can improve the signal available to cell phones in subscribers' homes, and plans to make it available in a trial market next year.
A persistent death row inmate in Texas could trigger a change in federal law allowing state and local governments to jam cell phone calls.
Consumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm medical evidence to back up their claims. The Web sites in the study generally portrayed their therapies as safe, effective and ready for routine use, but published research doesn't support that "overoptimistic" picture, the study authors said.
Feel discouraged or aggravated when your home Internet connection goes on the blink or your cell phone fritzes out, and you don’t know what to do?
New Jihad Code Threatens al QaedaThe code's most direct challenge to al Qaeda is this: "Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like.
The iPhone is the worst phone in the worldThat's right, we said it -- and we're not taking it back. The iPhone may be the greatest handheld surfing device ever to rock the mobile Web, and a fabulous media player to boot.
A very cool tool showing the sizes of things from coffee bean to an atomAn amazing little web tool showing the scale of things down to through cells and atoms. Just takes a second and its super neato geek stuff.
T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick dataT-Mobile's now reporting that personal data stored on Sidekicks has "almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger."
Understanding A Cell's Split Personality Aids Synthetic CircuitsA new set of experiments by Duke University bioengineers has uncovered the existence of "bistability," in which an individual cell has the potential to live in either of two states, depending on which state it was in when stimulated. Taking into account the effects of this pheno …
International Society for Stem Cell ResearchSTEM CELL RESEARCH , WITH HOPE OF SAVING LIVES IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, MAYBE MINE
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Call halts Craig and Jackman playHugh Jackman and Daniel Craig were in a middle of a performance in a live stage show play, when someone's cellphone, in the audience, started to ring. Hugh Jackman halted, stayed in character, and told the audience member to pick it up! Video included.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile data show friend networksFriendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy from call records and the proximity of users, says a new report. Only 94 cell phones were fitted with a software that could log the calls and the proximity of users with their friends.
Synthetic Lifethe world will be changed by the ability to routinely read genetic sequences into computing systems and then store, replicate, alter and insert them back into living cells. More Articles
Symbian Smartphones: 1 in 63 InfectedA study by mobile security company SMobile Systems claims smartphones running the Symbian operating system are breeding grounds for spyware, viruses, worms and Trojans. SMobile says most users of the infected Symbian smartphones are unaware of the infections.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Palestinians mock 'bad taste' adA funny cell phone advertisement by an Israeli cell phone company tries to take a light hearted approach, by depicting a series of events which leads to Israeli soldiers and unseen Palestinians kicking a soccer ball back and forth, in all good fun, over the barrier wall.
AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of FailureIn my mind, the most recent AT&T failure is completely inexcusable. Its visual voicemail system — which is the only way to be notified of voicemails on the iPhone — has been down for many users for days, if not weeks. And AT&T apparently didn't bother to tell anyone.
Human sperm created from stem cells in world first, claims British universityThis is a major discovery in a field that is nascent. There is a reason why nature through millions of years created the human species to be separated in sexes of which the secret is yet unknown.
Top mobile manufacturers agree to offer universal phone charger following EU pressure The days of scrabbling around to find the correct mobile phone charger are to end after a landmark agreement between the leading manufacturers.
Cell phone in the toilet bowl? Here's how to fix itYour cell phone, pager or iPod has fallen into the toilet bowl, swimming pool or kitchen sink full of water. You fish it out. After you've washed your hands -- depending on the circumstance -- what can you do?
Cell Phones Getting Too Complicated, Poll FindsPC World writes that a recent poll finds that 61% of Britons believe that cell phones are becoming too complicated and have too many features. Three-in-four believe cell phones are less reliable now than before.
New Technologies Allow Scientists to Watch Cells in MotionIt's easy to imagine the cells in our bodies like bricks in a house, all cemented into place. But we are actually seething with cells that creep, crawl, and squirm.
In Worms, Genetic Clues to Extending LongevityIn the germline cells that produce eggs or sperm, biological time stands still. This is why babies are all born with the same age, the clock set to zero, regardless of the age of their parents.
American Detained, Tortured in UAE at U.S. Govt's Behest, ACLU SaysNaji Hamdan Says He Was Beaten Until Losing Consciousness in Abu Dhabi Prison.
Has T-Mobile been hacked?Like Checkpoint Tmobile has been owned for some time. We have everything, their databases, confidental documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009.
Sexting like 'spin the bottle online,' prof arguesWhen a teenage girl knowingly sends provocative pictures of herself to friends or a boyfriend, is she guilty of child pornography or simply practising self-espression?
A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse SqueaksPeople have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak.
Down Syndrome Yields Key Cancer CluePeople with Down syndrome hold the key to a new generation of cancer drugs, researchers say. More Articles
Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for LifeAn English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago. More Articles
Prisoner flees Bosnia prison as guard forgets to lock cell A suspect in a German jewellery heist who was being held in a Bosnian prison sauntered to freedom after his jailers forget to lock his cell, officials said on Tuesday.
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