FCC will revisit its standards for cellphone radiation. (Image: Pauly’ (CC) via Flickr)

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), requested four other commissioners to revisit discussions on the relationship between brain tumors and cellphone radiation emissions. If three of the 5 commissioners agree, then FCC can begin the discussions.
According to Tammy Sun, an FCC spokesperson, cellphone users should not have to worry. “Our action today is a …

Clean Revolution Arrives At The Cell Phone Nearest You

It’s a project called PhoneSoap, and if nobody slips along the way, it’s goodbye bacteria and welcome to a new, clean revolution for the cell phone nearest you—yours.
Online tech observer Mashable today said PhoneSoap is about to start a clean phone revolution via a device that sanitizes your cell phone while charging your unit.
The bug-killing agent is nothing new really except for this novel application, as PhoneSoap uses …

North Korea is likely to register its one millionth mobile phone user, a report from Reuters reveals.
According to the news organization, the development is revealed through a report from the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability.
The new report says, according to Reuters, that 60 percent of people aged 20 to 50 in Pyongyang – the communist country’s capital – have cellphones.
Pyongyang has about 3 million residents but the 1 million figure comes from 60 percent of …

Twenty-eight year old Emily Good was arrested by Rochester police because she was videotaping them during a traffic stop from a curb at her house. The video, which was uploaded to YouTube, shows the woman and the police officer bickering over whether she should be filming them from her yard with her cell phone.

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The police officer asked the woman to go into her house if she wanted to film “because we don’t feel safe”, the woman refused, and the …

Australian scientists have developed a new system for mobile devices called Serval. With this innovation cell phone users will be able to make calls or surf the Internet even in areas where there is no required cellular infrastructure at all and there are no signals of cellular towers.
Innovative technology Serval has been named after a large African cat that due to its extremely alert hearing can pick up ultrasonic signals coming from victims, report agencies. The used technology is called …

Facebook this January suspended a controversial feature that granted external websites and third party developers access to the home address and cell phone numbers of its users because of intense criticism but the social networking website has now made it known that it will reverse course on this increasingly contentious policy.
Facebook on February 23rd confirmed that it will move forward with plans to give third parties access to user’s phone and address information, in a written response …