From the Reason Foundation Gov. Scott Walker leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 50-42 among those likely to vote in Wisconsin's June 5 recall election, according to a new Reason-Rupe poll of 708 Wisconsin adults on cell phones and landlines.
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Your cell phone is the enemy. Sure, it connects you with people, the Internet, stupid games and even your bank account. But it’s also a tracking device that your family, your favorite retailer and virtually any ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled today that a police search of a cell phone for its number, without a warrant, is permissible. Police had retrieved the phone in question from the scene of a drug sale and later used it ...
A new Federal Reserve survey highlights a new way to give underserved consumers who don't have a bank account access to a greater array of financial tools: cell phones.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Nokia Corp.’s gotten mixed signals from investors and Wall Street this week after the cell phone giant lifted the wraps on new devices meant to restore some of its former luster.
Cell phones so far have produced a major headache for public-opinion researchers. Auto-dialing thousands of cell phones is prohibited, cell-phone area codes are geographically meaningless, and people are abandoning their land lines. But ...
While Nokia's troubles seem to go from bad to worse to, well, who knows where, it seems that every mobile/cell phone owner holds a special place in their heart for the once-dominant brand.
Most young drivers from 16 to 21 years old say texting while driving is dangerous. Still, 29% admitted to doing so during the past month in a survey by Consumer Reports magazine. Nearly half of drivers in the survey said they had made a ...
As any guy knows, it can be tough to get a woman's telephone number. Apparently, it's a little easier if she is riding in a taxi and a computer does the asking.
Feeling lonely and in need of a reassuring hug? Frustrated by a lack of physical warmth in mobile phone communication? A Japanese professor may have designed the perfect solution for your intimacy deficit: a huggable device that tries to ...
Every 3.5 seconds, someone in America loses a cell phone. And more often than not, it happens in a coffee shop, a new study says. All those absentminded moments add up to $30 billion in annual losses, the report, from mobile security company ...
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