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New Era: Jurors using Twitter Jeopardize Trials
During the trial of an Arkansas lumber supplier In February, one of the jurors tweeted his buddies that they should stay away from that product: "It's bad mojo," he thumbed, "and they'll probably cease to exist, now that their wallet is 12m lighter."
During a four-month-long political corruption trial in Philadelphia earlier this year, one juror was found to have been updating his Twitter account almost daily, at one point posting: "Stay in touch for a big announcement on Monday everyone."
Justice Department May Bust Up AT&T's Exclusive Deal With Apple's iPhone
Obama's anti-trust cop Christine Varney is dusting off the Sherman Act and reviewing wireless companies' exclusive handset deals--most notably AT&T's monopoly control over Apple's iPhone.
One suspects that Google lobbyists are somehow involved. READ FULL ARTICLE
Wal-Mart Expands Cheap No-Contract Wireless Plan
Walmart is teaming up with prepaid carrier TracFone to offer Straight Talk, a no-contract wireless service.
Users can choose between a $45 per month plan that offers unlimited calls, texts, and mobile Web access, or a $30 per month plan that provides 1,000 minutes, 1000 texts, and 30MB of mobile Web access.
Straight Talk will offer three flip-phone options: the Motorola W385 for $79.99, the MotoRazr V3a for $99.99, or the LG200 for $29.99.
DVD Lens Makes Great Cellphone Macro Hack
Cellphone cameras are almost universal awful, but that shouldn’t stop you having some fun with them (and we don’t mean the kind of “fun” found on the Tokyo subway).
The watchphone: Gadget or gimmick?
Whenever some shiny new plaything arrives on the scene, it's worth asking one question: is it a gadget or a gimmick?
And when a nice man from Orange turned up in my office earlier this week, I quickly decided that what he was carrying was little more than a gimmick - albeit an expensive one.
What he'd brought with him was described as "the world's first touchscreen watchphone".
It's made by LG and Orange has the exclusive deal to sell it in the UK on a pay-as-you-go deal for a mere £500.
NYPD Crackdown: Hands-Free Or Pay The Fee!
The NYPD has a message for drivers: dialing while driving will cost you money.
It's the second police crackdown on driving while using hand-held cell phones in less than six months. The last time, on March 12, police officers pulled over close to 9,000 drivers within the 24-hour crackdown on hand-held cell phone use.
Prisons scramble to crack down on illegal cell phones
Officers and investigators seized 391 cell phones in New Jersey prisons and halfway houses in the year since the state started keeping track, according to records obtained by The Star-Ledger.
In the same time -- from August of last year to July of this year -- there were 244 drug confiscations and 3,172 seizures of other types of contraband -- anything from weapons to pornography, to unauthorized types of pens. nj.com — READ FULL ARTICLE
7th Circuit Cuts Off Challenge to Chicago Cell Phone Ban
Chicago cell phone users fighting to fend off a city ordinance that bars them from driving and chatting on their phone without a hands-free device have lost another round.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a decision Thursday (pdf) agreed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois that the class action mounting a constitutional challenge to the 2005 city law "has no legs." And by the way, that law also precludes texting and surfing the Internet while driving, the court noted.
First Samsung Android phone out next week
Samsung’s first Android-based mobile phone – the Galaxy i7500 - will be launched next week, Register Hardware has discovered.
Staff at a handful of O2 retail outlets consulted the chain’s stock management system on our behalf, and told us that the device – which features a 528MHz Qualcomm processor - will arrive in its stores next week. reghardware.co.uk — READ FULL ARTICLE
