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Eunice Vincent

It's Your Health - Safety of Cell Phones and Cell Phone Towers [Health Canada, 2009] - 0 views

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    2009 article from Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada regarding Safety standards related to cellular phones and resources concerning radiofrequency (RF) energy
Maliha Rahman

Facebook's Safety Renovation | Big Idea Solutions - 0 views

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    This website basically gives another summary of the issue as well as the effect of the panic button and how it can and cannot be useful. 
Elvira Russ

EU's exploding-iPhone investigation heats up | Crave - CNET - 0 views

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shared by Elvira Russ on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Claims of iPhones exploding have surfaced in Britain and France, with at least one person, a teenager, sustaining an eye injury. In addition, KIRO TV in Seattle has turned up 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that include cases of burning or flaming iPods.
  • There have been many well-documented cases of laptop batteries bursting into flames, so it's plausible that iPhones could heat up too, given that they use the same (or similar) battery technology.
  • I'm on my third iPhone (having upgraded twice), and I've also owned an iPod Touch. I loved them all dearly, largely because they never exploded into flames, burning me and my family alive. Just saying.
Zaheen Ahmad

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Exploding' iPhones investigated - 0 views

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shared by Zaheen Ahmad on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • iPhones and iPods heating up or bursting into flames in the US and the UK.
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  • The system issue alerts for multiple products every week, sometimes leading to mass product recalls, but often with no consequence.
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  • "I took it out of my pocket and held it to my ear and saw the screen crack up like a car windscreen," he told AFP.
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  • It has been reported that the device's lithium ion batteries could be the source of the problem.
  • Apple, which has sold 26 million iPhones and 200 million iPods to date, said it was aware of the reports.
YooJin Jung

TomTom for iPhone 3G and 3GS: Satisfied-nav - Recombu :: read > compare > buy - 0 views

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shared by YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Today TomTom released its iPhone 3G and 3GS app that offers sat-nav goodness without the clunky looking sat-nav.
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  • t costs £60, which isn't that expensive when you consider how much you would pay for a standalone sat-nav, and takes eight minutes to download.
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  • The app boasts turn-by-turn navigation, automatic re-routing, safety camera info, 2D and 3D viewing modes and points of interest
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Elvira Russ

BBC NEWS | Technology | Kids' top searches include 'porn' - 0 views

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  • In a statement Symantec's internet safety advocate, Marian Merritt, said that with the service, "parents can stay in the loop on what their kids are doing online".
  • "Any of us who have been teenagers are not surprised kids look for information about sex," Ms Merritt told AFP news agency.
  • "It also helps identify 'teachable moments' when parents should be talking with their kids about appropriate online behaviour and other issues in their kids' online lives."
shazad rouf

Illinois to ban texting while driving - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Illinois will become the 17th state on Thursday to ban texting while driving, a safety worry that has caught the attention of the federal government.
  • Compared with dialing, talking, listening or reaching for an electronic device, texting posed the greatest accident risk, the study found -- most likely due to the almost five seconds researchers found the drivers' eyes were off the roadway while texting
Jeff Ratliff

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Chalana Perera

Implementing Effective Classroom Internet Safety: Keeping Students Safe while Online Ne... - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 24 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Though most schools have special filters in place to keep kids safe while using the Internet, these filters do not catch everything.
  • viruses
  • keeping a watchful eye on students is not enough
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