Newstalk 870 KFLD: The Mid Columbia's Newstalk Leader » cell phones http://newstalk870.am Fri, 24 May 2013 22:30:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Teen Using Cell Phone Walks into Snake Pit http://newstalk870.am/cell-phone-walks-into-snake-pit/ http://newstalk870.am/cell-phone-walks-into-snake-pit/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:55:14 +0000 Donald Deane http://thefw.com/?p=165563 By this point, it should be fairly obvious that getting distracted by a cell phone can be extremely hazardous to your health. And yet, a teen girl in California actually fell into a pit of rattlesnakes while searching for a signal in the desert. Need further proof? We didn't think so.

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/cell-phone-walks-into-snake-pit/feed/ 0 CNN What is Washington's Law on Cellphones While Driving Again? http://newstalk870.am/just-what-is-the-law-on-texting-cellphones-while-driving/ http://newstalk870.am/just-what-is-the-law-on-texting-cellphones-while-driving/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:30:21 +0000 John McKay http://newstalk870.am/?p=73853 Idaho this week adopted new texting and cellphone laws for drivers. We thought we'd review what's legal and what is NOT in Washington.

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/just-what-is-the-law-on-texting-cellphones-while-driving/feed/ 0 Pilot Almost Causes Devastating Crash After Texting While Flying http://newstalk870.am/pilot-almost-causes-devastating-crash-after-texting-while-flying/ http://newstalk870.am/pilot-almost-causes-devastating-crash-after-texting-while-flying/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:00:22 +0000 Don Deane http://tsminteractive.com/?p=91044 Texting while driving isn’t the only way to endanger your life with a smartphone. It turns out that texting while flying is spectacularly dangerous, too.

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/pilot-almost-causes-devastating-crash-after-texting-while-flying/feed/ 0 Alexander Hassenstein/Getty There Will Soon Be More Cell Phones Than People in the World http://newstalk870.am/cell-phones-people-world/ http://newstalk870.am/cell-phones-people-world/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:00:34 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=76687 Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast makes some interesting (some may say frightening) predictions, including the fact that the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population sometime this year.

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/cell-phones-people-world/feed/ 0 Sean Gallup, Getty Images Is It OK to Use a Cell Phone in a Restaurant? — Survey of the Day http://newstalk870.am/cell-phone-restaurant-survey-of-the-day/ http://newstalk870.am/cell-phone-restaurant-survey-of-the-day/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:00:11 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=69694 While most of us have grimaced when a friend or a diner at a nearby table has taken a cell phone call at a restaurant, most of us have also been guilty of exactly the same behavior.

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/cell-phone-restaurant-survey-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Lorenia, Flickr NTSB Recommends Complete Cell Phone Driver Ban-Including Hands Free http://newstalk870.am/ntsb-recommends-complete-cell-phone-driver-ban-including-hands-free/ http://newstalk870.am/ntsb-recommends-complete-cell-phone-driver-ban-including-hands-free/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:05 +0000 John McKay http://newstalk870.am/?p=31309 a hands-free ban too? what do YOU think?

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/ntsb-recommends-complete-cell-phone-driver-ban-including-hands-free/feed/ 0 (Photo by Anel Fernandez/Cover/Getty Images) Sorry Drivers, Hands-Free Devices Aren't Safer Options to Cell Phones http://newstalk870.am/hands-free-devices-distracting-cell-phones/ http://newstalk870.am/hands-free-devices-distracting-cell-phones/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:00:35 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://tsminteractive.com/?p=66273 In response to the National Transportation Safety Board-proposed ban on cellphones while driving, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers tried to defend hands-free devices. They’re “designed to be used in a way that helps drivers keep their eyes on the road,” they said, but now it looks like this defense doesn’t hold water.

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/hands-free-devices-distracting-cell-phones/feed/ 0 Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images Cell Phones = Cancer, Says World Health Organization http://newstalk870.am/cell-phones-cancer-says-world-health-organization/ http://newstalk870.am/cell-phones-cancer-says-world-health-organization/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 19:01:16 +0000 John McKay http://newstalk870.am/?p=2440 As if we did not have enough to think about these days...now the World Health Organization (or WHO) is saying cell phones can produce cancer at the same level as the threat posed by lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/cell-phones-cancer-says-world-health-organization/feed/ 0 (scienceandtechnologyarticles.com) Newt Gingrich's Ringtone: ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' http://newstalk870.am/newt-gingrichs-ringtone-abbas-dancing-queen/ http://newstalk870.am/newt-gingrichs-ringtone-abbas-dancing-queen/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 19:00:02 +0000 The Brad http://newstalk870.am/?p=2327 If Newt Gingrich somehow manages to get elected in 2012, there's a good chance the White House will be hearing a lot more ABBA in the hallways.

According to the LA Times, Gingrich's speech in Ames, Iowa, was interrupted Thursday when his cell phone went off. The ringtone: ABBA's 'Dancing Queen.'

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/newt-gingrichs-ringtone-abbas-dancing-queen/feed/ 0 Mark Hirsch, Getty Images Alerts Coming To Cell Phones-Even If You Don't Want Them http://newstalk870.am/alerts-coming-to-cell-phones-even-if-you-dont-want-them/ http://newstalk870.am/alerts-coming-to-cell-phones-even-if-you-dont-want-them/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 17:49:48 +0000 John McKay http://newstalk870.am/?p=2156 The new P.L.A.N. is coming to your cell phone eventually...whether you like it or not.

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