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Starting at 8 a.m. Wednesday, citizens who have information on a crime will be able to provide Buffalo police with information through text messaging.

US antitrust regulators gave Internet search titan Google a green light to acquire mobile advertising network firm AdMob, saying the deal was unlikely to harm competition.

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The common fear about phone texting while driving is that you may not see a car coming and will get into an accident. This 21-year-old patient, however, was the passenger. So what's wrong with that? I asked. What' is wrong with texting if you are the passenger?

Well, my professor said, this young lady became another casualty of the texting epidemic because she didn't see the collision happening and couldn't brace herself. The angle of her head was such that the airbag hit her obliquely and blinded her to some extent in both eyes.

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The largest study to examine a potential link between cellphone use and cancer is already stirring up controversy, two days ahead of its actual release. After many years of ambiguous and sometimes conflicting results, the Interphone study was an attempt to provide a definitive measure of any risks associated with heavy cellphone use. But even the studys authors spent several years arguing over how to interpret the data that came in, before finally producing a report thats due to be published Monday evening, US time.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed a rule that would require wireless carriers to warn customers about extra fees for using more voice minutes or data than their plan allows.

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Research and Markets ... connections, and revenue analysis split by data and voice. This is followed by key data and forecasts on wireless content and the mobile messaging.

SNPP settings to send text messages via the Internet.

Net neutrality rules proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission could upset a complex mobile telecom marketplace and lead to fewer handset choices and fewer smartphone applications, a mobile trade group said Monday.

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The biggest study to date into the effects of mobile-phone usage on long-term health was launched on Thursday, aiming to track at least a quarter of a million of people in five European countries for up to 30 years.

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Google Inc said it no longer plans to offer a version of its Nexus One smartphone for the Verizon Wireless network and will change its distribution plans in Britain, underscoring the challenges facing the Internet search company as it expands into the mobile phone market.