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Test Your Eyesight With the Superb Vision Test App

Lisa Bernier — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:30:31 +0000

Have you ever wondered whether you were colorblind or just needed glasses, but you're not sure if an appointment with the eye doctor is warranted? Well, with the Vision Test App, all you need is your phone to know if you need to start trying on frames.

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Would You Be Comfortable Voting on a Smartphone? — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:50:41 +0000

Smartphones have changed the way we communicate, listen to music, watch videos, even how we pay our bills. But will this explosion in mobile technology one day change the way we vote?

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Election 2012 — President Obama Has the Support of Smartphone Users

Shauna Wright — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:13:10 +0000

Many national polls show President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, essentially tied in the upcoming race for the White House. But according to a new survey, there’s at least one segment of the population Obama has mostly locked up: smartphone users.

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How Dangerous Is It to Be a 'Smartphonatic'?

Shauna Wright — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:27:55 +0000

People who’ve changed their shopping, banking and payment behaviors after getting a smartphone — dubbed “smartphonatics” — are changing the way we work, play and manage our money.

But are the devices themselves making us less civilized?

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Study: Facebook Users Access Site Through Smartphones More Than Computers

Danny Gallagher — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:09:32 +0000

Some of the world’s smallest computers now make up a big part of Facebook’s traffic.

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Reports: Spammers Flooded Cell Phones with a Staggering 4.5 Billion Texts in 2011

Danny Gallagher — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:17:22 +0000

There are few things more frustrating than learning that some spammer has wasted a few megabytes of your data plan with advertisements for male enhancement pills or cash for gold schemes.

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Talk to Your Heart's Content — New Study Reveals Cell Phones Can't Harm You

Danny Gallagher — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:01:43 +0000

For years, mankind has worried about the effects of constant cell phone. It turns out, though, the only thing that cell phones have inflicted on us is stress from constantly worrying about it.

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Smartphones Could Be Getting X-Ray Vision — Is This a Good Idea?

Danny Gallagher — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:01:44 +0000

Smartphones can do so many things and have about a zillion uses. They are cameras, computers, radios, GPS devices, word processors, televisions, music players and gaming devices, to name a few.

One breakthrough, however, could turn them into yet another mobile gadget: X-ray machines.

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Be Careful — That Homeless Man May Really Be a Cop Out to Catch Distracted Drivers

Shauna Wright — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:16:22 +0000

As in many areas of the US, driving while using a cell phone is illegal in Ontario, Canada. But since many people obey the law only when they see a police officer, undercover cops have found a novel way to catch violators: they’re going incognito as vagrants.

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Where Are You Most Likely to Lose Your Phone?

Shauna Wright — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:06:51 +0000

If you routinely stop for coffee, make sure you have your cell phone with you when you leave. A new study reveals coffee houses are the most likely places to lose a phone or have it stolen — especially if you live in Philadelphia.

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Nokia Phones May Soon Feature Vibrating Tattoo Alerts

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:27:35 +0000

It seems inevitable that one day man and phone will become one. At some point in the future, we will make calls by thinking about the person we want to talk to and then listen to their voice through a chip in our ear. But is that future closer than we think?

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Man Gets Refund from T-Mobile After 'Email Carpet Bomb' to Executives — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:09:27 +0000

Having a service-related issue that no one can seem to do anything about? You don’t have to take it lying down. Sometimes you just have to escalate matters yourself.

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Have Americans Become Less Polite?

Shauna Wright — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:14:56 +0000

When’s the last time you heard someone use the words “please” and “thank you”? According to a recent poll, it’s probably been a long time.

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Oops! Teen Texts Pranks About Hiding Dead Body To a Cop

Mithun Divakaran — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:32:28 +0000

With the convenience and anonymity that comes with texting, you would think it’s easy to pull off a prank. But for a teenager in Arkansas, a texting prank backfired when she joked about hiding a dead body, and sent the text prank to a random local number. That random number turned out to belong to a police detective, who obviously didn’t consider the message a joke.

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