Cell phones and cancer — the latest research

Feb. 12, 2011   Leave a Comment  

A long term study is underway that will track the cell phone usage of 250,000 cell phone users between the ages of 18 and 69 over three decades. In addition to looking for cancer links, the study will be on the lookout for links to neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. (Pink Sherbert Photography via Flickr)

Yeah…we still don’t know

Harris poll shows people would pay extra for local radio on their cell

Sept. 19, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Weather, music given as reasons

EU to standardize phone chargers

June 30, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Just about every cell phone in Europe will get an identical, universal charger.

Crippled cell phones just piss us off

March 4, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Wireless carriers consistently rank low in customer satisfaction rankings. One only need troll the pages of sites like Consumerist to understand why. Expensive, spotty service couples with poor customer service makes for quite a set of disgruntled customers. One of my big beefs with carriers (or even phone makers-I’m looking at you Apple) are carriers [...]

EarthTalk: Litter? Cell phones and cancer?

Jan. 21, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Dear EarthTalk: What is the impact of all the littering that individuals do, largely from their cars and on highways? What can I do to help clean it up? How can we strengthen laws to prevent it? — Won’t litter in Norwalk, CT Environmentalists consider litter a nasty side effect of our convenience-oriented disposable culture. [...]