The debate to ban handheld cell phones was spawned in New York when state Assemblyman Felix Ortiz witnessed a crash involving a driver using a cell phone (Verhovek). ... Ortiz instantly sponsored a bill banning the use of cell phones while driving. ... For years, there had been a growing fear about the distractions associated with cell phones. ... According to recent evidence, cell phones aren't the biggest distraction while driving. ... This proves that when compared to a number of car-related activities, cell phones were least distracting. ...

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Cell Phones: Potential Medical Phenomenon? ... In result, thought-to-be harmful components of cell phones actually sped up cell division. ... Cell Phones-Convenience or 21st Century Plague?... Time, October 9, 2000, Business; Do Cell Phones Need Warnings? ... Can Cell Phones Increase Brain Power?...

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Cell phones are designed to provide a variety of purposes. ... Cell phones have become a substitute for many items such as household phones, calling plans, time keepers, alarms, schedulers, calculators, and the Internet. They become a substitute for these items when someone who owns a cell phone with such capabilities has no need to continue using the older, less efficient products. ... Cell phones simultaneously serve as a compliment for products such as computers, cars, and recently cameras. Information, websites, and pictures can be passed between new cell phones unto computers, palm pil...

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Cell phones. ... In our world of being "on the go" and always rushing to do something, cell phones have become a necessity. ... It's the same with driving and talking on the cell phone. ... This handy device fits in your ear and allows you to talk on a cell phone with your hands free. ... It makes me wonder, what the heck did people do before cell phones? ...

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For the past few years, one of the big news items on the news is about cell phone dangers. There have been lots of stories about people getting tumors and brain cancer from cell phone use. In this paper, I hope to inform you of these problems and show you how to use cell phones safely. ... Carlos's research concluded linked cell phone use to a brain tumor called acoustic neuroma. ... If you have a cell phone, I believe you should go out and buy a headset piece, which are made by most mobile phone manufactures including Motorola, Nokia, Hitachi and Ericsson. ...

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Can driving while chatting on a cell phone be a dangerous combination? ... As the popularity of cell phones have increased in the last five years, so have the number of public safety advocates who link cell phone use by drivers to numerous minor and fatal automobile accidents. ... A study of Canadian drivers with cell phones found that "the risk of a collision when using a cell phone was four times higher than the risk when a cell phone was not being used" This risk is similar to the hazard associated with driving with a blood alcohol level just above the legal limit. ... It is now estimate...

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When I pulled up even with the driver's window, I saw a woman pressing a cell phone to her ear. ... And the CHP study provides clear evidence that cell phone abuse is a dangerous habit. ... Such as using correct cell phone etiquette - if driving while talking on the cell phone is really necessary, enforce a law requiring usage of hands-free receiver technology is a must while driving. ... Cell phones are a privilege not a right on the road. ... The ban of cell phones" arguments is understandable. ...

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Abstract In the present situation, the cell phones are accessible all over. ... With the development of fixed phones in the 19th century to cell telephones, there has been a radical change in the example the individuals communicated and corresponded with one another. With the impact of convenient processing in the hands of everybody and anybody, it is the right time to analyze utilization of cell phones on the youth. This paper gives a review of what is occurring with cell phones also, what is the effect of using cell phones on youth. Why we consider utilizing cell phones may change habitual p...

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Cellular phones have been rapidly increasing day by day around the world in the past years. ... Cell phones are very useful and they are also very safe when on the road. ... Without a cell phone, they would most likely have to flag down a car for help or a ride. ... With a cell phone, all they need to do is make one simple call to a family member or friend near the area and get help from them. ... Those are just a few reasons that I feel cell phones are very useful in our society today. ...

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A source states that, "cell phones do not start brain cancer, it only increases the risks of it being developed " but it is one of the main concerns people have around the world (Silverstone). ... A tumor is an abnormal cell growth in any part of the body, but in this case, it will be in the brain. ... It is all put together by the time people spend on the phone and the way they hold the phone, close or away from the ear. ... Using a cell phone while driving is also dangerous not just to the driver but others around him nearby. ... Cell phones and technology play a major role in this internati...

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The U.S. has almost no law especially against cell phone use when driving. ... The number of cell phone owners has climbed into the tens of millions. ... A law against driving with a cell phone would not be infringing on a personal right because driving is not guaranteed to you, much less driving while talking on a cell phone. ... The use of cell phones employs all of these distractions. ... The cell phones would be treated the same way. ...

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"Cell Phone Tracking Raises Privacy Issues", it talks about how people are looking into making cell phone companies that provide services able to know where their customers are at all the time. ... The Triflex turns your cell phone into a speakerphone. ... In just one year the number of accidents relating to cell phone use increased in Oklahoma by 26.5 %. ... Until we have more safety features given to us that go along with cell phones, we shouldn't mix the two. ... In conclusion, because of the rapid growth and demand for cell phones many more accidents are occurring daily. ...

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Not surprisingly, drivers who use a cell phone while driving perceive cell phone use by others as less of a threat to their safety as do non-users. One out of five drivers who use a cell phone while driving sees this activity as a major threat. The number of accidents caused by talking on a cell phone accounts for six and a half million a year. ... Even with recent talk on banning the use of cell phones while driving it can never be fully controlled. Regardless of government regulations restricting the use of cells phones while driving, people may choose to continue their bad, and illegal, hab...

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Well I hate to tell you but it's probably someone just like me who is using a cell phone, eating, or even trying to read. ... Cell phones, although helpful to us when in an emergency, are used way to often in a car. When on a cell phone we have at least one hand free, but then I think about when I eat and I have no hands free and I use my knee to drive. ... Worst of all when these things happen at the same time; eating, people honking at us, and then a cell phone ringing , and trying to turn the radio down. ... I doubt that this will ever stop, but I know now how annoying it is to almost...

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As of right now the second largest U.S. cell phone group Cingular, bid for AT&T is $38 billion dollars, and the world's largest mobile phone group Vodafone, is expected to at least meet the offer. ... Vodafone already owns a 45% stake in U.S. mobile phone leader Verizon Wireless, but some Vodafone investors are concerned about the bold offer to buy AT&T Wireless, but this would give the company the control of a company in the U.S. which would spread its name across the Atlantic even more. ... Ultimately this will all lead to lower cell phone bills, this would cause lower prices because of...

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Some possible uses for Bluetooth are programming your phones address book with your computer and then sending it to your phone effortlessly, without the need to sit on your phone and press buttons forever to type a sentence. You could talk on your phone with your headset while walking around the house doing chores. How about using your cell phone and telling your printer to print your cell phone screen without the need of a computer, and all wirelessly. ... What if I have a older computer, or I want to do this Bluetooth thing with my phone? ... There are also the more farfetched ideas of Bluet...

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Busy businessmen can now close deals with clients on their cell phones in the middle of the street while getting something to eat at a local street vendor. ... For example, Cellular phones operate at 824-849 Mhz and 869-894 Mhz. ISM band wireless LAN's and Part 15 devices such as cordless phones operate between 902-928 Mhz. ... A perfect example would be the handy but sometimes cumbersome cell phone. ... How inconsiderate of that individual to leave his cell phone on during a film. ...

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Other societies have already been through it but that will not reduce the impact of the mobile telephone (cell phone) on our society as distance and time take on new meaning. The cell phone is likely to bring about quite profound changes, more than we anticipate. ...

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This is better than carrying around a GPS that comes off your dashboard because no one can break your window and steal this GPS, and it is also better than using your phone as a GPS because doing that drains your phones battery life and also uses all of your mobile data. ... This feature allows the driver to make calls by talking to the car, send texts by saying what the person wants to say without touching their phone, and play music from a phone. This is also a very good safety feature because this way there is no reason for the driver to touch their phones while driving. 25 percent of accid...

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In our world today technology seems to be advancing at very fast pace, and with the advancements in our technology, people seem to have the urge to do everything on the move and wirelessly. With the urge of people wanting to have the freedom of being wire-less, two different technologies have been ...

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Another advantage is the ability to send voice and data over the cellular phone network. ... A practical application for this technology is the transfer of data from a laptop by means of a cellular modem and phone. ... The cellular concept was adopted and several technologies such as spatial channel reuse and cell splitting were developed to improve system capacity. ...

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