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The 20 Best Reactions To The Lafayette Inmates Who Were Caught Facebooking In Jail

DJ Digital — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:35:37 +0000

We thought that we saw it all when we discovered the two Lafayette Parish Prison inmates who were somehow allegedly updating their Facebook pages from INSIDE the jail - that is until we saw the reactions to the story. Some of you had us in TEARS with your comments via Facebook, so we decided to pull the best 20 and deliver them to you, before this either went away, or got too out of hand.

South African Cops Will Now Confiscate Your Phone If It's Used While You're Driving

Shauna Wright — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:19:22 +0000

Although many states have enacted laws forbidding drivers from using their cell phones while behind the wheel, the fines for doing so are often so minimal that they often aren’t much of a deterrent.

But Cape Town, South Africa might have found the secret to compliance: cops there won’t just ticket you, they’ll take your phone away for 24 hours.

10 Apps to Help Keep You Safe for Hurricane Season

Maura Chwastyk — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:31:48 +0000

The beginning of June brings warm weather, new flowers and less joyfully, the start of hurricane season. The good news is that unlike a lot of other national disasters, we know about hurricanes before they hit. This means we usually have some time to prepare and make sure that we’re ready to weather the storm. [...]

10 Situations Where You Should Absolutely Put Away Your Cell Phone

DJ Digital — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:47:51 +0000

I saw a recent article that actually suggested that in order for movie theaters to stay in business, they MUST allow the use of cell phones during movies. The reasoning? Because "kids will set the agenda for the multiplex business in the coming years," and if theaters don't allow them to talk, text and tweet, they will ultimately lose their business and eventually fold. Rea

This Elephant Is Better At Using A Smartphone Than You Are [VIDEO]

DJ Digital — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:16:11 +0000

These days, it’s rare to see anyone using anything other than a smartphone as their mobile communication device. With that said, the majority of people who own a smartphone only use about 20% of it’s potential. Even though smartphones have the ability to do things like doubling as a remote control for just about anything, [...]

Average Texter Sends or Receives 41.5 Messages a Day — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:43:54 +0000

According to a survey of 2,227 adults by the Pew Research Center, the average text message user sends or receives an average of 41.5 messages a day.

How much someone texts is not surprisingly tied to how old they are. Those in the 18-to-29 age group send or receive an average of 87.7 texts a day, whereas that total is only 4.7 for those in the 65-and-over group.

Google Pulls Their 'Is My Son Gay' App From Smartphones

Chris Reed — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:45:46 +0000

Google’s Android market pulled their controversial app for Android’s smartphones that purported to assist mothers in determining if their son(s) were gay. The app was pulled from the market Monday after a “tidal wave” of outrage labeled the app as homophobic and prejudice towards the gay community.According to the app’s webpage, “After this test, you’ll [...]

The Scary Statistics on How Much We Use Phones and Computers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shauna Wright — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:11:41 +0000

It’s no secret that a lot of us these days practically live on our computers and smartphones — but what exactly do we do with them? According to this infographic created by www.OnlineSchools.org, the answer is “practically everything.” Some highlights? About a third of smartphone owners check our phones before we even get out of [...]