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I found this article to be very interesting..

"Cell phones have changed a lot over the years, and their main functions was to make calls - so how come the recent 2010 Mobile Access survey shows that making calls is not the most important feature? This was certainly bound to happen once SMS and other such features came about."

The article explains how the cell phone is not mainly used for making calls in 2010, but is used to access the Internet.

This is a great artice regarding children. teens and cell phone use.

This is a very interested article why middle school children should not be given a cell phone until they understand the reason for a cell phone to avoid behavior like this.

This article talks about the future power of cell phones and how they will replace PCs.

This site has information on Illinois cell phone and text messaging laws.

iPhone for the win!

Video about media convergence. Some information in the video is from PEW reports, but it contains a lot of other interesting statistics. At the end it mentions someone's hypothesis that what technology is in our smartphones now will fit in a blood cell in 25 years.

Good article that mentions both positives and negatives with teen having phones and also offers up suggestions with phone companies to choose from..

Texting and driving

I know this week were talking about cell phones and mobile devices and how the internet is used on our phones. I know in my discussion, me and another student were talking about texting and how it was used for the deaf originally. I just thought I'd share this article with the rest of the class.

This article talks about the new Sexting laws that were in placed during the past year. It has laws from each state. Also, it includes what the punishment will be if the law is broken.

This girl sent pics to her boyfriend over a year ago and is now recieving phoe calls from strangers becasue the pics ended up on the Internet.