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In spite of being an area where a huge number of studies has already been performed, the use of cell phones is still making scientists uneasy. The long-term threats on people's safety have not yet been fully and accurately assessed, experts say, therefore they cannot whole-heartedly sanction their use just yet. ... |
13 November 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Over the past few years, actual telephone calls or e-mail accounts have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the SMS (Short Message Service). This has been most visibly reflected in the preferences of young people today. Polls indicate that most people under the age of 21 now use messages to stay in touch, rather ... |
11 November 2009
19:31 GMT |
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Most people use the cameras on their cell phones to capture instant moments while out with their families, or to photograph fun times with their pets. But experts from the University of California, in Berkeley, have other plans with their mobile phones. Their newly developed technology, CellScope, allows for average ... |
22 July 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Salah, the official prayer of the Islam, must be practiced by each adept of the religion five times per day, in prostration to Allah. Regularly, the prayers are done at dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset and nightfall, and missing them is considered to be a sin. They are also compulsory to all those who have reached puber... |
6 April 2009
10:25 GMT |
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New scientific evidence comes to show that even teenagers themselves have nowadays problems with the most modern gadgets, despite their being the main target of advertising campaigns. While those in their late teen years and early adulthood can handle most devices producers “throw” at them, the most compl... |
26 March 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Although doctors and other health experts have yet to figure out exactly how harmful cell phones are to the human brain, one thing is for sure, their batteries are a real “death trap.” New studies show that the devices themselves carry numerous bacteria that can only live in that certain environment, but ... |
17 March 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have just recently set forth a bold, new idea, that of a battery made from materials that are so effective that they would recharge more than 100 times faster than the most advanced lithium-ion cells. In other words, they say, a battery that usually power... |
12 March 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Rutgers University researcher Peter D. Loeb, a professor of Economics, has recently authored two new studies detailing the influence of cell phones in the deaths of countless drivers and pedestrians over the past years. His studies span across a period of 27 years, from 1975 to 2002. He has analyzed several key facto... |
5 March 2009
06:54 GMT |
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A survey of the German cell phone and Internet industries has revealed a worrying fact: most German males in their twenties would rather ditch their girlfriends than part ways with their cell phones or Internet connections, investigators have recently announced. The young men would also renounce cars, if that would a... |
3 March 2009
09:37 GMT |
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Here we are in the age of interactions, the time of cell phones, computers, PDAs and social media. And the almighty Internet looms overhead, possible even through this post. Even though as a small boy I had a hard time understanding what all the fuss was about, and what this “Internet” everyone kept talki... |
20 February 2009
17:01 GMT |
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The popularity of cell phones has really taken off in the US since 2001, as SMS services have become readily available, and started to catch on to the general population. While at the time only 1 million messages were sent between mobile phones in America, now more than 75 billion are delivered every month in the cou... |
13 February 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The National Safety Council (NSC), a non-profit, non-governmental organization urged federal law makers yesterday to restrict or ban the use of cell phones inside vehicles, citing new studies that show the practice is as dangerous when the bottom line is drawn as driving under the influence. NSC also asked businesses... |
13 January 2009
02:38 GMT |
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