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Thieves Use Big Rigs To Haul Hot Alltel Phones (The Morning News)
FORT SMITH -- Authorities are trying to hunt down a large batch of phones stolen from an Alltel Corp. distribution center, a theft so big police said the culprits needed tractor-trailer rigs to get away.
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Easy Cell: Mobile Phones for the Hearing Impaired (Scientific American)
The convenience and relatively low cost of cell phones in the U.S. has made them an indispensable part of life. Unless, of course, you are one of the 37 million or so hearing-impaired adults living in this country. But University of Washington (U.W.) in Seattle researchers are hoping to change that by developing software that lets callers communicate on their mobile phones using sign language ...
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Pay phones, once a lifeline, edge towards extinction (St. Clair County Journal)
When students at Collinsville High School need to talk to parents or scrounge up a ride home, school staff are forced to lift one of the office phones, dial the number and hand it over.
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Schools, Students Battle Over Cell Phones (FOX 13 Memphis)
Leave your cell phones at home - that's the message to students from Memphis and Shelby County Schools and so far it's not going over well. It's one thing for a teacher to explain the Theory of Relativity to students, or try to make them understand why E=MC squared. It's a whole new dimension to have to do it while students are texting each other and checking their voicemail.
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Cell phones - the greatest saviour in Bihar flood (New Kerala)
Patna, Sep 05 : Mobile phones have become the saviour of lakhs of flood victims in Bihar this year by playing the most crucial role in largescale evacuation and rescue of marooned people from far flung areas.
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Bill would ban taxi drivers’ use of hand-held cell phones (Las Vegas Sun)
CARSON CITY – The Taxicab Authority’s proposed ban on cell phone use by cabbies while they transport passengers would exclude hands-free cell phones, according to the agency’s administrator.
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Qik Video Streaming Comes to HTC Phones [Qik] (Gizmodo)
Good news for HTC phone owners, Qik is bringing its popular video streaming service to the Touch Dual, Touch Diamond and the TyTn-II. They are also adding two other Windows Mobile phones to the list:...
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Consumers Upgrade Phones Less Often; Will Apple Be Able To Break The Trend? (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
As consumers buy higher-end mobile phones that are capable of doing more and cost more, they might find less reasons to upgrade their devices as often. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said today in an interview with CNBC that his company is seeing some signs that customers are slower to upgrade their mobile phones than before, Reuters reports.
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FORT SMITH : Stolen phones apt to supply black market (NWAnews.com)
FORT SMITH — Foreign black markets are the most attractive outlets for cell phones like those swiped from an Alltel Corp. warehouse in Fort Smith last weekend, industry experts said. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
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Consumers seen holding on to mobile phones longer (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Qualcomm Inc is seeing some signs that customers are slower to upgrade their mobile phones than before, Chief Executive Paul Jacobs said on Wednesday in an interview with cable television network CNBC.
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