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K'taka ministers caught watching pornBangalore: In a huge embarrassment to the BJP government in Karnataka, two ministers were allegedly caught on TV camera watching porn on mobile phone during Assembly proceedings in the first such ugly incident in the state's legislative history.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 21:34
Bill bans cell phones for driving teens in Utah
Teenagers in Utah would be prohibited from talking on cell phones while driving under a bill tentatively passed by the state Senate.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 20:29
Talking with Texts: How Cellphones Empower Deaf Children in Uganda
A wonderful article on how SMS is being used to help deaf children in Uganda. By Ken Banks for National Geographic .
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 18:24
Lost cell phone leads to child porn arrest for Dallas man
Lost cell phone leads to child porn arrest for Dallas man Beaumont Enterprise Copyright 2012 Beaumont Enterprise.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 16:19
Apple's iPhone hot but Android handsets on fire
Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter which ended on Dec 31, giving it a market share of 8.7%. AFPpic SAN FRANCISCO: An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the hottest smartphone maker worldwide at the end of 2011 but handsets powered by Google's Android software were shaping up as true winners in the market.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 12:14
HTC Declines on Weak Sales Guidance, IPhone Competition: Taipei Mover
A lack of new models this quarter may delay HTC's attempts to catch up with rivals as the popularity of advanced smartphones drives growth in the mobile-phone market.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 08:05
Fight on video raises bullying concerns
A playground brawl at a Mandarin apartment complex caught on a cellphone camera is full of name calling, hair pulling and fist fighting.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 04:01
Voice and Video Calls via Wi-Fi From 30,000 Feet?
Federal regulations forbid making calls from cell phones while aboard U.S. commercial planes in-flight, but Wi-Fi services could eventually permit voice and video calls over the Internet for a fee.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 23:56
Smartphone shipments outpaced PCs in 2011 for first time
Computerworld - Smartphone shipments overtook personal computers -- including tablets, laptops, netbooks and desktops -- for the first time in 2011, according to new research from Canalys.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 19:41
Facebook to show ads on mobile phones
Social network giant Facebook is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices in March, before its $5billion initial public offering, according to a newspaper report.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 15:36
KT Corp Fourth-Quarter Profit Rises, Helped by One-Time Gain
KT Corp., South Korea's largest phone and Internet company, reported a 13 percent increase in fourth- quarter profit as a one-time gain masked higher costs and falling sales from phone calls.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 11:37
'Good lord, the bill is how much?': Man racks up $10,000 cell phone bill watching Netflix
A Canadian family's vacation has proved very expensive, after they racked up an $11,000 cellphone bill for watching Netflix.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 07:27
Claire McCarthy, M.D.: Preteens and Cell Phones: My Change of Heart
She'd been asking and asking and essentially being ignored, so she decided to put her argument in writing .
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 03:18
Cellphones No Signal Of Reforms for North Korea
North Korea has seen a quantum leap in mobile phone imports but experts do not see it as a trigger for an opening up of the reclusive society emerging from the death of dictator Kim Jong Il.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 23:08
Indiana 911 funding plans
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.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 19:03
Mobile phone usage rises to 47pc in Mideast
Panellists listening to an expert during Everything Mobile event organised by ictQatar at the Sharq Village and Spa yesterday.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 14:54
Mobile phone experts' guide 2012: How to reduce your bill to changing contract
If you and your partner, and maybe your children too, have iPhones but all share the same iTunes account - as is common - you may wish to stop reading about this extraordinary app now.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 10:49
India Hangs Up on Its Mobile Phone Industry
An Indian buyer carries his purchases on his shoulder as he walks while talking on his mobile phone at a wholesale market, in New Delhi,Feb. 2, 2012.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 06:44
5.7 quake recorded off BC, no tsunami
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has been recorded about 105 miles west of Ucluelet off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 02:30
Blanche Ely teacher accused of calling Haitian-American student 'little chocolate boy'
A Blanche Ely High School teacher once in hot water over "holy water" now finds herself facing disciplinary action again after a Haitian-American student complained that she called him "little chocolate boy." Reading teacher Leslie Rainer, 46, could be suspended over the complaint filed with the school district in January.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 22:20
Indiana 911 funding plans equalizing phone fees
Indiana legislators are considering plans that would equalize the fees tacked onto landline and cellphone bills for 911 emergency services because a shift away from landline phones has cost counties millions of dollars needed to run their emergency dispatch centers.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 18:11
Canadian teens put a (LEGO) man into space for just $400
WECT TV6 - WECT.com - Wilmington, NC news and weather - Canadian teens put a man into space for just $400 It was probably a rather small step for LEGO but it was certainly one giant leap for a LEGO man when he was launched into space by a couple of Canadian teens recently.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 14:01
Tech firms offer solutions in developing countries
In 2007, while on a medical research trip to Malawi, Stanford undergraduate Josh Nesbit made two startling realizations.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 11:56
Carlos Slim Shows Users How to Switch IPhones Away From AT&T
Billionaire Carlos Slim's U.S. mobile-phone carrier is instructing users how to switch their iPhones from AT&T to his prepaid calling plans.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 07:47
Apple Is Third Largest Mobile Phone Manufacturer
The trends in the mobile phone industry indicate that feature phones, which are usually sold as messaging only phones, are on the decline in sales as smartphones are falling into the hands of more and more consumers.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 03:37
Stepdad's call over phone policy
A STEPDAD has criticised a decision by Basingstoke's biggest secondary school to make parents come in and collect confiscated mobile phones - claiming it puts the safety of pupils at risk.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 23:23
Siemens on look-out for new CEO for NSN
Siemens is on the look out for a new Chief Executive for its mobile phone network equipment joint venture unit Nokia Siemens Networks , Siemens supervisory board member Sibylle Wenkel said on Friday.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 19:08
Samsung Retains Top Spot in American Mobile Phone Market
A study of 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers has found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.3 percent market share.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 15:53
Japan's Panasonic projects record annual net loss
Panasonic on Friday nearly doubled its projected net loss for the fiscal year to a record 780 billion yen amid weak TV and mobile phone sales and ongoing restructuring costs after acquiring smaller Sanyo Electronics Co.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 11:39
POLL: Where Is The Worst Spot for Cell Phone Reception in Melrose?
Back in November, AT&T introduced its 4G network to the metropolitan Boston area , joining other carriers like Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile and MetroPCSA that already offered the high-speed Internet data service here.A Though this city might have the latest cell phone technology available to residents, it's likely that getting good reception isn't a ... (more)
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 08:29
Man charged with phone bill while serving the U.S. overseas
Josh Courtney is proudly serving our country in the Air Force. He is stationed in Italy and came home to see his Grandma Pearl in September.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 04:25
Former volunteer wrestling coach pleads guilty to sex charges
A former volunteer wrestling coach in Central Square pleaded guilty to enticing a 12-year-old boy to send him sexually explicit video and photos of himself by cell phone.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 00:10
More People Using Mobile Phones To Research Purchases
A study recently conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project shows that more than fifty percent of people who shopped during the 2011 holiday season used their mobile phones to do research on various products before committing to buy them.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 23:10
Mobile providers 'incorrectly charging VAT' on charity texts
Mobile phone providers have been incorrectly charging VAT on charitable donations made via text message, it has been revealed.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 19:01
Televisa, Iusacell say Mexican regulator rejected deal moving media firm into mobile phones
A move by the world's largest Spanish-language media company into Mexico's mobile-phone market has been rejected by the country's anti-monopoly regulator, the two companies involved in the deal said.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 14:56
Sony annual losses soar, now expected to be nearly $3bn
Sony said the new forecast reflects the sale of its share in a joint venture making LCDs and the flooding in Thailand Sony said Thursday it now expects to lose nearly US$3 billion in the current fiscal year through March, over double its target from just three months ago, as it books expenses related to the sale of its share in its LCD joint ... (more)
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 10:37
UA board considers plan for improved cell service
Trustees at the University of Alabama are considering a plan to improve cell phone service inside Bryant-Denny Stadium during football games.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 09:32
What scares Facebook: Privacy and phones
Like a good friend, Facebook says it doesn't want to invade our privacy or hang out with folks who spend all their time looking at a cell phone.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 05:17
Student cell phones confiscated in school's probe of drug selling
The scene at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire Wednesday, where dozens of students reportedly have been expelled or suspended after a drug probe possibly involving confiscated cellphones.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 04:12
Apple Loses German Court Bid to Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone
Apple Inc. failed to get a preliminary ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus mobile phone from a German court.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 00:07
LG finally shows a profit from cellphones, record high flat-panel shipments in Q4 earnings
LG has revealed its earnings statements for the fourth quarter of 2011 and the full year, and it managed to notch an operating profit of 23 billion won , boosted by a 10 billion won operating profit in its handset division.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 19:53
5-1-1 Traffic Reports End Today In STL
For drivers in the St. Louis region who took out their cell phones and punched in 5-1-1 to check for traffic delays before starting a trip-they will have to find an alternative beginning February 1. The MoDOT service for the St.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 15:48
Bill could prevent secret monitoring by cell phone companies
New legislation could require cell phone service providers to disclose what information they are gathering from subscribers and why.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 11:29
Comcast offers discount on Verizon Wireless service
Bay Area consumers who sign up for a bundled service plan from Comcast and for new service from Verizon Wireless are eligible to receive a prepaid Visa card worth up to $300 under a marketing plan the companies plan to launch Wednesday.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 10:29
People Shopping in Stores, Then Researching by Phone, Says Survey
Tell us if this sounds familiar: You're in a store -- perhaps a Best Buy, a Barnes & Noble or a department store -- and you see something you like, but instead of taking it to the cash register to buy it, you pull out your cellphone to see if you can get a better deal online.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 06:20
SeaMicro brawns up the microserver
Startup SeaMicro first packed lots of low-end Atom processors into servers to save power and space.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 04:10