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We're a nation, No!...a world of addicts. Phone addicts...

We all know the saga of the Samsung Galaxy S7. The factory that makes the batteries recently caught fire.

This kid was totally pumped up about how tough his new phone case was.

Finding the perfect bra will soon be as easy as turning on your phone.

The beginning of June brings warm weather, new flowers and less joyfully, the start of hurricane season.

Working out your thumbs may be the text big thing.

We know that being one of the hottest listeners in Acadiana means that you're always on the go. Whether it's school, partying, kids, shopping, tanning, clubbing, traveling, twerking, working out, or whatever you do - you're life is mobile. So we figured that since the majority of what you do is mobile, then it only made sense to give you the best mobile experience of our Hot 107.9 website, with a

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. Read Mor

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.

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...

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.

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'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.

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.”