- Cell Phone Unlocking Bill Passes, Bad Last-Minute Changes And All http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20140225/16233126347/cell-phone-unlocking-bill-passes-bad-last-minute-changes-all.shtml 3 comments technology
- [Rosenthal] MLB investigating Sandoval over prohibition of cell phone use within 30 minutes of first pitch. https://twitter.com/ken_rosenthal/status/611668123255742465 20 comments baseball
- New aluminum battery developed at Stanford can charge a cell phone in a minute http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/aluminum-ion-battery-033115.html 4 comments science
- What's worse? Being harassed for photographing a weigh station, or that the cops linked your presence there to your cell phone in 10 minutes? http://srtctransportation.blogspot.com/2008/05/our-transportation-facilities-are-being.html 7 comments reddit.com
- So I'm on my cell phone companies site, trying to buy some minutes, clicking along and this message pops up. C'mon? Really? http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4369/slowdownir7.png 16 comments programming
- Cell phones responsible for bee decline? Researchers fitted cell phones to a bee hive and powered them up for two fifteen-minute periods each day. After three months, the bees stopped producing honey. http://www.cnn.com/2010/world/europe/06/30/bee.decline.mobile.phones/ 10 comments reddit.com
- A security researcher in Germany claims to have discovered an encryption flaw in SIM cards that allow a user’s cell phone to be hacked in mere minutes. http://bgr.com/2013/07/22/sim-card-hack-encryption-flaw/ 47 comments technology
- Wearable tattoo sends alcohol levels to your cell phone: "Engineers have developed a small device, worn on the skin, that detects alcohol levels in perspiration and sends the information to the users smart phone in just 8 minutes." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161017103217.htm 6 comments technology
- The innocent-sounding “Mobile Information Call Act” would allow all sorts of nuisance calls to cell phones, eating into customers’ costly minutes, Sen. Chuck Schumer warns. http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/11/telemarketers-collectors-could-target-cells-under-mobile-information-call-act- 55 comments politics
- Why Bother Attaching Tracking Devices to Cars When People Voluntarily Carry Them Wherever They Go?: '..as long as your phone is turned on, it registers its location with cell phone networks several times a minute, and all US cell phone companies hold on to that data, some of them for years.' http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/16/why-bother-attaching-tracking-devices-to 3 comments technology
- Hey Reddit! I hope you're having a great weekend. You know what? I just left my Senator a message urging her support of the public option in health care reform. Took me 2 minutes. Here's a link so you can too! PS-most of you have free minutes over the weekend on your cell phones... http://www.usa.gov/contact/elected.shtml 25 comments reddit.com