Cellphone News - "New York Times" category

With an App, Your Next Date Could Be Just Around the Corner - ‎Nov 2, 2011‎

For Shana Hensley, 29, of Denver, cellphone apps are convenient when looking for a date. “Time is a huge factor,” she said. By JENNA WORTHAM Christina Wang has her date-night routine down pat. She combs her hair, fixes her makeup and then checks her ...

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Catching a Wave, and Measuring It - 2 Nov, 2011

The sensor data is crunched onboard by low-power cellphone chips, and then shipped by satellite or cellphone to big onshore computers that do complex analysis. “Getting a computer out into the middle of the ocean is a pretty big challenge, ...

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For $10, He'll Find the Guys Who Didn't Do It - 17 Oct, 2011

His cellphone, he says, holds the numbers of some 100 potential lineup fillers, mostly friends and acquaintances from the Mill Brook Houses, the public housing project in the South Bronx where he has lived most of his life. He often complains about how ...

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Doctor Said Jackson Was in 'Perfect Health,' Witness Says - ‎Sep 28, 2011‎

David Walgren, a deputy prosecutor, said in his opening statement that the recording, made from a phone call that Mr. Jackson made to Dr. Murray and retrieved from Dr. Murray's cellphone, clearly showed not only that Mr. Jackson was under the influence ...

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Dish Ponders Buying a Cellphone Carrier - ‎Sep 23, 2011‎

Dish Network is considering buying or partnering with a cellphone service provider like Sprint Nextel or Clearwire to make use of its wireless spectrum holdings, the satellite television company's chief executive told ...

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Jobs Steps Down at Apple, Saying He Can't Meet Duties - 25 Aug, 2011

In the last decade, Apple has redefined the music business through the iPod, the cellphone business through the iPhone and the entertainment and media world through the iPad. Again and again, Mr. Jobs has gambled that he knew what the customer would ...

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After Cellphone Action, BART Faces Escalating Protests - 21 Aug, 2011

11, when the transit agency took the unusual step of shutting down cellphone service for several hours as activists prepared for another rally. A nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization providing local coverage of the San Francisco Bay Area for The ...

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After Cellphone Action, BART Faces Escalating Protests - 21 Aug, 2011

11, when the transit agency took the unusual step of shutting down cellphone service for several hours as activists prepared for another rally. A nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization providing local coverage of the San Francisco Bay Area for The ...

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After Cellphone Action, BART Faces Escalating Protests - 21 Aug, 2011

11, when the transit agency took the unusual step of shutting down cellphone service for several hours as activists prepared for another rally. A nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization providing local coverage of the San Francisco Bay Area for The ...

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Murdochs Resist Calls to Appear Before Parliament - 14 Jul, 2011

The family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, whose cellphone was hacked by News of the World reporters, arriving at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday. By JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL LONDON " A British parliamentary panel said on Thursday that ...

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British Tabloid Hacked Missing Girl's Phone, Lawyer Says - 5 Jul, 2011

LONDON " The cellphone of a British schoolgirl who went missing in 2002 and whose murdered body was discovered six months later was repeatedly hacked by the News of the World tabloid at a time when no one knew what had happened to her, ...

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US Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors - 12 Jun, 2011

The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if ...

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EU Panel to Propose Tighter Data Protection - ‎May 15, 2011‎

By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN BERLIN " The European Commission's advisory panel on data protection plans this week to urge governments in the European Union to treat the geographic location of cellphone users as personal data, deserving of the highest level of ...

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Emergency Alert System Expected for Cellphones - ‎May 9, 2011‎

Updating the national emergency alert system, federal officials planned to announce on Tuesday in Manhattan that some cellphone users in New York and Washington will soon be able to receive alerts by text message in the event of a ...

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Smugglers Guide Illegal Immigrants With Cues via Cellphone - ‎May 8, 2011‎

A group of migrants was hustling north through the southern Arizona desert the other night when one of their cellphones vibrated with a text message. “Watch out,” it warned. “Things are hot up ahead. Take cover in the bushes. ...

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Emergency Alert System Expected for Cellphones - 10 May, 2011

Updating the national emergency alert system, federal officials planned to announce on Tuesday in Manhattan that some cellphone users in New York and Washington will soon be able to receive alerts by text message in the event of a ...

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Emergency Alert System Expected for Cellphones - 10 May, 2011

Updating the national emergency alert system, federal officials planned to announce on Tuesday in Manhattan that some cellphone users in New York and Washington will soon be able to receive alerts by text message in the event of a ...

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Cellphone Calls May Offer Insight Into Serial Killer - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎

Shortly after a 24-year-old prostitute went missing in July 2009, a mysterious male caller used her cellphone to repeatedly taunt her teenage sister, and, in one harrowing conversation, confess to her murder, several people with ...

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Cellphone Calls May Offer Insight Into Serial Killer - 15 Apr, 2011

Shortly after a 24-year-old prostitute went missing in July 2009, a mysterious male caller used her cellphone to repeatedly taunt her teenage sister, and, in one harrowing conversation, confess to her murder, several people with ...

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Keeping Eyes on Distracted Driving's Toll - 12 Apr, 2011

Perhaps you never have texted or talked on a cellphone while operating a motor vehicle. But if you engaged in any of the above activities, you are just as guilty of distracted driving as if you had. It's easy to become complacent. ...

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