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Adults Use Cellphones to Make Purchase Decisions In Stores
During the 2011 holiday season, the majority of adult cell phone owners relied on their phones to research product information while shopping at physical stores. Marcus Burke read more
911 Funding plans equalizing phone fees
The fees tacked onto bills for landline and cellphones for 911 emergency services would become more equalized under proposals that Indiana legislators are considering as they look to shore up... Read more at www.WISHTV.com
Hanging Up Cellphones in Prison
New state laws and technologies are helping to curb use of smuggled cellphones by prison inmates, a growing epidemic that has been linked to coordinating prison escapes as well as the continuity of orchestrated gang activity outside the prison walls.
\Cellphones, weapons and drugs flood Ohio prisons
COLUMBUS — Illegal drugs, weapons, tobacco and cellphones are flooding Ohio’s prisons, spurring a new wave of violence as rival gangs battle for control of the black market.The frequency of violent disturbances has doubled since 2008, leading Ohio’s top prison
official to launch a study about whether a March 2009 tobacco ban is stirring the trouble.
Cellphones, tablets to be allowed in schools
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Ontario Kiwanas collect cellphones for soldiers
The Kiwanis Club of Ontario Parkway has collected more than 340 cellphones for the non-profit Cell Phones for Soldiers program. Cell Phones for Soldiers collects and turns in cell phones to Michigan-based ReCellular for recycling.
Cellphones seized in school's drug probe
Stevenson High School in north suburban Lincolnshire is the target of a drug investigation that has relied on confiscated student cell phones to identify suspects.
Indiana 911 funding plans equalizing phone fees
TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS The fees tacked onto bills for landline and cellphones for 911 emergency services would become more equalized under proposals that Indiana legislators are considering as they look to shore up funding for counties' emergency dispatch centers, which have lost millions of dollars as phone users have shifted from landlines to cellular plans. Separate plans ...
NH police would need warrant to access cellphones
New Hampshire police would need a warrant to extract information from cellphones and global positioning satellite devices under legislation intended to protect people's privacy.
Waste Management Phoenix Open puts cellphones in play
Silent cellphones to be allowed at TPC Scottsdale, and the tournament is unveiling a free app.
