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Currents - The Triumph of the Ordinary Cellphone - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Forgotten in the American tumult is a global flowering of innovation on the simple cellphone. From Brazil to India to South Korea and even Afghanistan, people are seeking work via text message; borrowing and lending money and receiving salaries on cellphones; employing their phones variously as flashlights, televisions and radios.
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Going Mobile: Debating and Using Cellphones in School - The Learning Network Blog - NYT... - 3 views

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    "Going Mobile: Debating and Using Cellphones in School"
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Big City - 2 Days With No Text Messages for Riverdale Students - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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    "Encouraging the Text Generation to Rediscover Its Voice"
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Students use phones to discuss bullying - 1 views

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    "Students use phones to discuss bullying"
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Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • The one thing she doesn’t use her cellphone for? Making calls.
  • For example, although almost 90 percent of households in the United States now have a cellphone, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has stagnated, according to government and industry data.
  • Instead of talking on their cellphones, people are making use of all the extras that iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphones were also designed to do — browse the Web, listen to music, watch television, play games and send e-mail and text messages.
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  • The number of text messages sent per user increased by nearly 50 percent nationwide last year, according to the CTIA, the wireless industry association.
  • And for the first time in the United States, the amount of data in text, e-mail messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices in 2009 surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls, industry executives and analysts say.
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#TechintheComics via Zits (cartoon) - 2 views

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    Proper writing technique?
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Education Week: Cellphone Stats: Texting - 1 views

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    "SOURCE: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project"
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Top 3 ways Parents can monitor cell phones - 3 views

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    "Top 3 ways Parents can monitor cell phones"
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Japanese Private School to issue cell phone to every student - GIGAZINE - 0 views

  • While there are many schools prohibiting the possession of cellphone, the board judged it more important to educate the proper usage than to ban it.
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      Can we haver a collective "YES" to this admission?? John Evans
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Mobile Phones - So Much More Than a Phone | New Learning Playbook - 0 views

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    mobile learning needs to differ from eLearning in several respects
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Driven to Distraction - Britain Sets Tough New Laws for Texting While Driving - Series ... - 2 views

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    "When Texting Kills, Britain Offers Path to Prison "
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