A new study from the insurance industry finds that state laws banning wireless calling or texting while driving have not resulted in fewer vehicle crashes.
Texting while driving – Mobile phone – Cell Phones – Science and Technology – Traffic collision
Ever hit the slopes only to find 4 inches of fresh snow instead of the 8 inches you were promised? That may be because ski areas have exaggerated their snowfalls on weekends to entice skiers, according to a study by two Dartmouth College professors.
Ski – Dartmouth College – Ski resort – Snow – United States
AT&T Inc. is paying $18 million to settle claims that it imposed unfairly high fees on wireless customers who wanted to end their contracts.
Like many working parents, Beverly Flaxington armed her daughter with a cell phone in fifth grade — about 11 years old — when the time came for her to venture out alone.
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Federal regulators are asking the nation’s largest wireless companies whether they give customers adequate notice about early termination fees for breaking a service contract before it expires.
The Transportation Department said Tuesday it is prohibiting truck and bus drivers from sending text messages on hand-held devices while operating commercial vehicles.
Text messaging – Mobile device – Commercial vehicle – Business – Transportation Department
Tim Large, editor of the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Emergency Information Service and of AlertNet, sent in this report from Port-au-Prince.
Haiti – Port-au-Prince – Reuters – Caribbean – Travel and Tourism
More than a week after an earthquake leveled swaths of the Haitian capital, the recriminations are circulating faster than clean water. From CNN’s Anderson Cooper to blogs and social networks, questions echo: Why is help taking so long? Why can’t the relief process be streamlined? Can’t this thing go any faster?
Anderson Cooper – CNN – [...]
Cell phone operators and international relief organizations are working to get networks going again and to let those displaced by the quake contact loved ones in other countries.
Mobile phone – CellPhones – Science and Technology – Haiti – Caribbean
In the past 10 days, Americans used their cell phones to send text messages pledging more than $30 million for Haitian relief efforts.
Haiti – American Red Cross – United States – Mobile phone – Red Cross