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Report: Mobile device provides primary Web access for some teens

Parents concerned about what their teenagers access on the Internet may have more reason to worry. A new Pew survey shows some teens are accessing the Web primarily via mobile device.

Wednesday - 03/13/2013, 06:48am EDT

Tags: kate ryan, pew, teens, parenting, cellphone

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Texting and dinner: What's acceptable?

Now, a new survey by the University of Southern California finds that age plays a role in how people view texting while eating.

Tuesday - 02/12/2013, 06:57am EST

Tags: texting

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Cell companies prepare for Inauguration Day crowds

Extra cell towers are in place around the National Mall in anticipation of the weekend's extra data demands.

Sunday - 01/20/2013, 09:45am EST

Tags: max smith, inaguration day, Washington Business Journal,

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More homes ditching landlines

New results from a biannual survey show that in the first half of 2012, one in three households didn't have landline phones.

Wednesday - 12/26/2012, 04:43am EST

Tags: thomas warren, land-line

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As unlimited data plans change, Sprint and WiFi remain options

Here's what it means: unlimited data plans aren't being killed off completely, but customers with those plans will lose them when upgrading to a discounted new phone.

Tuesday - 05/22/2012, 05:18am EDT

Tags: andrew mollenbeck, verizon wireless, data plans, sprint, wifi,

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Smartphone key to right now decisions

A Pew Internet Project study shows 70 percent of all cellphone users and 86 percent of all smartphone users have gathered information and performed real-time tasks with their mobile device.

Tuesday - 05/08/2012, 07:23am EDT

Tags: Neal Augenstein, smartphone

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Fear of losing cellphone on the rise

Younger people are more likely to get anxious abut being without their phones.

Monday - 02/20/2012, 03:28pm EST

Tags: nomophobia

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Are cell phones making people more selfish?

Everybody has a cell phone and talks on it whenever he's alone. While it might seem the cell would make people more willing to help others, a new University of Maryland study finds cell phones are making people less socially minded and more selfish.

Saturday - 02/18/2012, 10:29am EST

Tags: University of Maryland, david burd

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