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View ArticleSubway Service: A Blessing Or A Curse?
Look out New Yorkers and tourists in the Big Apple -- the MTA is looking to bring cell phone and WiFi service to the subways. But will opening the electronic floodgates underground do more harmthan...
View ArticleOctober 26th Show
In today's first hour of Talk of the Nation: "elite," "extreme" and other political code words, and Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood. In our second hour, aging in prison, and a mini political...
View ArticleTrick Or Treat: Halloween Is Calling You
Download a spooky ringtone on your cell phone this Halloween and satisfy your inner ghoul.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleApril 19th Show
In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, cell phones and cancer risk, and getting to know your neighbor. In the second hour, the road to foreclosure, Standard and Poor's U.S. credit rating, and your...
View ArticleRobocalls To Cellphones? States Marshal Opposition
A bill before Congress that would allow some types of "robocalls" to be made to cellphones is getting an increasing amount of attention this week thanks to something that's very rare these days —...
View ArticleA Curious Question Of Vanity, Urgency, Pleasure And Anxiety
Should kids have cell phones? Cell phones are a powerful technology that have come, very quickly, to assume a very large place in our psychic lives. Should we protect our kids from this?» E-Mail This...
View ArticleAfter Sandy, Questions Linger Over Cellphone Reliability
Roughly one in four cellphone towers in the path of Hurricane Sandy went out of service. It was a frustrating and potentially dangerous experience for customers without a landline to fall back on. Now,...
View ArticleThey Can Hear You Now: The Global Surge In Cellphone Use
The use of landlines is falling everywhere. Many places in Africa have bypassed landlines entirely in favor of mobile phones. People all over the world are increasingly accessing the Internet on their...
View ArticleHow To Disappear When Someone's Spying On You
A New York design team has just produced an invisibility cloak for your cellphone. Pop it in and no government, no merchants, no friends, no one knows where your phone is. Another design team in Canada...
View ArticleFAA May Stop Making You Power Off Those Electronics
An expert advisory committee recommended Monday that the Federal Aviation Administration allow the use of some personal electronic devices during takeoff and landing. But while many passengers are...
View ArticleLandlines, It Turns Out, Aren't Vanishing Everywhere
The number of landlines grew in about two dozen countries, but their growth was explosive in Cambodia, Cameroon and Kiribati, countries that until recently had poor infrastructure. Still, as expected,...
View ArticleHalf Of Americans Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories
Despite evidence to the contrary, many Americans believe cellphones cause cancer and that health officials are covering it up. Discredited theories about vaccines and fluoridation also remain popular.»...
View ArticleI'm Not Here, Leave a Message
New York city's Metropolitan Transit Authority plans to bring cell phone service to the subway. Do we really need people talking on cell phones on crowded subway cars?» E-Mail This
View ArticleSubway Service: A Blessing Or A Curse?
Look out New Yorkers and tourists in the Big Apple -- the MTA is looking to bring cell phone and WiFi service to the subways. But will opening the electronic floodgates underground do more harmthan...
View ArticleOctober 26th Show
In today's first hour of Talk of the Nation: "elite," "extreme" and other political code words, and Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood. In our second hour, aging in prison, and a mini political...
View ArticleTrick Or Treat: Halloween Is Calling You
Download a spooky ringtone on your cell phone this Halloween and satisfy your inner ghoul.» E-Mail This
View ArticleApril 19th Show
In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, cell phones and cancer risk, and getting to know your neighbor. In the second hour, the road to foreclosure, Standard and Poor's U.S. credit rating, and your...
View ArticleRobocalls To Cellphones? States Marshal Opposition
A bill before Congress that would allow some types of "robocalls" to be made to cellphones is getting an increasing amount of attention this week thanks to something that's very rare these days —...
View ArticleA Curious Question Of Vanity, Urgency, Pleasure And Anxiety
Should kids have cell phones? Cell phones are a powerful technology that have come, very quickly, to assume a very large place in our psychic lives. Should we protect our kids from this?» E-Mail This
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