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July 1 - California law requires adult drivers to go hands-free or else

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2008-07-01 16:32:23 by Will Park in IntoMobile
California drivers, be warned. The new California law (VC 23124), requiring that all adult drivers use hands-free cellphone solutions when behind the wheel, goes in to effect on July 1 If the risk of getting cited for driving with a cellphone pressed up against your noggin isn't enough to sway you, then go about your hand-occupying...
 
Tags: law, california law, drivers, california, california drivers, adult drivers, california roadways, mobile phone, phone
 
 
 
 
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One Month Old California and Washington Hands-Free Law Boosts Bluetooth Sales

2008-08-08 12:13:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...California and Washington hands-free driving legislation became effective, Parrot has seen a three-fold increase in sales of its hands-free car kits. Parrot, the world's largest manufacturer of Bluetooth(R) car kits attributes the increase to an aggressive advertising and public relations campaign it launched two months prior to the law...
 
Tags: hands-free, washington hands-free, hands-free car kits, hands-free devices, hands-free products, hands-free citations, hands-free options, california, law
 
 
 
 
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Hands-Free Law, Smands-Free Law: Distracting, Dangerous and Ridiculous Things You Can Still Do While Driving [California Cellphone Law]

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2008-07-01 14:20:35 by John Herrman in Gizmodo
...California drivers and cellphones are effectively banned on the road. At least not without a hands-free device...which Californians will inevitably forget to charge or lose. Other states have this law , but California is the driving-while-talking state. California is regularly ranked the worst for traffic congestion, and its 60 million...
 
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Pacific Gas and Electric to build world's biggest solar power plants in California

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2008-08-17 11:07:52 by dhiram in Fareastgizmos.com
California's largest utility company- Pacific Gas and Electric has signed deals to build the world's two biggest solar plants that would supply electricity to 250,000 homes and reestablish the United States as the global leader in solar power, officials said Friday. Pacific Gas and Electric will use the two massive solar facilities to help it...
 
Tags: california, solar power, southern california gas, power, pacific gas, electric, solar power generation, southern, northern california
 
 
 
 
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California Fires - Satellite Images

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2007-10-25 17:24:23 by Sahas Katta in Skatter Tech
...California for the past 5 days. (Images were taken over the past two days.) As of now there have been over 900,000 forced evacuations, over 1,600 homes have been destroyed, and 500,000 acres have been burned down stretching from Santa Barbara to the Mexican Border. Many who have not yet been asked to evacuate are leaving due to the poor air...
 
Tags: images, resolution images, low resolution images, resolution satellite images, fires, october, october 23rd, save server load, save
 
 
 
 
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220mph California Bullet Train on the way

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2008-05-15 12:32:30 by CharlieWhite in DVICE
...California High-Speed Rail Authority have their way, you might be able to hop on a bullet train that can zip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just under 2.5 hours by 2030. The 220mph speedster just got the thumbs up from the states tough environmental impact assessors, and now the challenge is getting a hold of the $9.95 billion to build...
 
Tags: california, san francisco bay, san francisco, southern california, rail authority, bullet train, relieve highway congestion, 220mph speed, novembers election
 
 
 
 
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Tesla to build electric- cars in Bay Area California

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2008-07-04 11:02:14 by HASH0x8bea6c8 in Fareastgizmos.com
...California was able to provide San Carlos-based Tesla with incentives, including the waiving of state sales tax on $100 million worth of manufacturing equipment, to entice the company to build its assembly plant here. Arnold wants these cutting-edge companies not just to start in California and do their research and development but also to...
 
Tags: tesla, california, tesla motors, bay, arnold, arnold schwarzenegger, san carlos headquarters, factory, electric-car factory
 
 
 
 
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Charter deletes e-mail of 800 California subscribers

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2008-01-25 20:40:31 by iGirl in Gadgetress
...California, were deleted because of a software error during routine maintenance, according to company spokeswoman Anita Lamont She could not say how many of those 800 effected California e-mail accounts were in Orange County. The state with the fewest number of customers affected were three in Arkansas, the largest was Michigan, where 1,300...
 
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California Woman Pays $50,000 for Booger

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2008-02-16 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...California. It is an order they hope will lead to the production of as many as 500 born-again pets each year We received an order from an American woman to clone her dog, Booger," said Ra Jeong-Chan, chief executive of RNL Bio , the Korean company that will help Seoul National University stem cell scientists create Booger II. "She is disabled...
 
Tags: booger, woman, bomb sniffer dogs, dogs, copy booger, dog, clone dead pitbull, clone, specialist dogs