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New York State court upholds ban on cellphones in school

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2008-04-28 19:58:49 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...banned any and all cellphones from New York school grounds. Needless to say, hovering parents worried about every single second of their child's well-being are upset that the schools have cut off the kids' precious lifelines. So upset, in fact, that a group of parents took the issue to court. The verdict? The cellphone ban stays Justice...
 
Tags: york, court, york school grounds, mobile phone, mobile, york daily news, mobile phone jammers, york senator, supreme court
 
 
 
 
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Congress considers bill to ban cellphones from in-flight use

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2008-04-18 00:51:17 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...ban on the use of mobile phones while airborne wasn't enough, a couple well-meaning but likely clueless Congressman have proposed a bill that would effectively ban cellphones from being used on an airborne plane. Apparently, the fear of having to sit next to loud and obnoxious passenger yapping into their mobile phone has prompted Congress to...
 
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Rhode Island ban on mobile phone use while driving causes budget shortfall

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2008-02-04 21:22:23 by willpark in IntoMobile
...banking on something like $6.2 million in fine-revenue from the ban. Turns out, that banning mobile phone use while driving will only be generating about $437,000 One of the problems, it seems, it that Rhode Island residents actually complied with the new regulation. Officials were expecting about 100,000 fines per year, but that figure...
 
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Congress makes in-flight cellphone calling ban permanent

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2008-08-01 22:22:22 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...ban on in-flight voice calls. Cellphones being used to annoying and obnoxious lengths on airplanes was apparently a scary enough prospect to push Congress to vote on the matter. Congress has been considering this bill to put and in-flight calling ban in to the law-books since April, and were finally seeing the results of the legislative bodys...
 
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Congress Moves To Ban In-Flight Cell Phone Calls

2008-08-03 19:19:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...ban voice communication during scheduled flights. The Hang Up Act now moves to the full House of Representatives The Federal Aviation Administration already bans cell phone calls during flights, and the Hang Up Act would make that ban permanent. The ban would have certain exemptions for members of the flight crew as well as law enforcement...
 
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ITC Judge says SiRF GPS chips violate patents, recommends import ban

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2008-08-28 12:38:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...ban on products using the offending chips. Given that one of the supposedly infringing chips is the ever-present SiRF Star III , that would obviously shake things up in a pretty big way. A final decision on a ban won't come until December, however, and SiRF looks to be exploring all of its options in the meantime, including asking the U.S....
 
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Manhunt 2 Ban To Stay. For Now. Snore.

2008-01-27 16:01:55 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
 
The increasingly boring saga of the banned Manhunt 2 game took a new twist during the week when the High Court ruled in favour of the ban imposed last June by the British board of Film Classification (BBFC). The ban was recently overruled by the Video Appeals Committee (VAC) but the High Courts Mr Justice More: continued here
 
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Pakistan reverses YouTube ban after videos removed

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2008-02-27 02:14:40 by Darrin Olson in SlipperyBrick
...ban on the YouTube website that it had imposed last week. The popular video sharing site had videos of cartoons originally published earlier in a Danish newspaper depicting the prophet Mohammad in which Pakistan lawmakers described as blasphemous Pakistan officials ordered not just the videos to be banned, but the whole YouTube website to be...
 
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Should Congress Ban Cellphone Calls on US Flights? [Question Of The Day]

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2008-04-16 22:30:00 by posted by Pantha in
...ban cellphone calls on US flights, but not text messaging and web surfing. The bill has yet to be passed, but the question is: Do you support a ban Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you're viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser. [ PC Mag
 
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