Ina Fried in Mobile on December 13, 2011 at 12:08 pm PT
The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for a nationwide ban on drivers’ use of portable electronics, with the exception of those that aid with driving itself.
Elizabeth Bernstein, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on November 1, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
After Mary Delano argued on the phone with her husband about why he wasn’t doing his share of the housework—and the spouses hung up on each other in a mutual fit of frustration — she decided to send him a text.
Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on June 9, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Growth in the volume of text messaging is slowing sharply, just as new threats emerge to that lucrative source of wireless carrier profits.
While U.S. cellphone users sent and received more than one trillion texts in the second half of 2010, according to CTIA, a wireless industry trade group, that was just an 8.7 percent increase from the prior six months.
Nitrozac and Snaggy in News on March 28, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at
Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 25, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
If your teenagers have a car and a cellphone, chances are they’ve made a call or texted behind the wheel.
Distracted driving is a big worry for many parents, but one start-up is betting that its technology will help alleviate some of those concerns. California-based Location Labs is selling a tool that detects when the phone is in a moving car and limits the owner’s ability to make calls and texts.
Kara Swisher in News on March 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm PT
If you had to pick the hotsy-totsy start-up to win the media darling of South by Southwest award for 2011–following in the precious footsteps of Foursquare and Twitter from years past–it would probably have to be GroupMe.
Here are the co-founders of he group messaging/conference call/locations/photo sharing service enjoying their day in the sun–quite literally, at their free grilled-cheese-and-beer giveaway this weekend in Austin.
Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on February 25, 2011 at 10:01 am PT
It’s happened to everyone—the terrible fallout from eating at that unfamiliar restaurant with the spoons that were a little too greasy, or the chicken that was served a little too rare.
New York University junior Max Stoller feels your pain, and built donteat.at to keep his fellow New Yorkers out of unclean restaurants and the gastric turmoil that inevitably follows.
Kara Swisher in News on February 8, 2011 at 10:17 am PT
One of the more interesting pieces of news that got pushed deep down in stories in the noisy swirl around AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post was the move of its CEO Eric Hippeau back to the investor side.
He’ll be going to Lerer Ventures, which is run by HuffPo co-founder, chairman and major investor Kenneth Lerer, and is contemplating a big expansion of its efforts.
BoomTown talked to both about it today.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 19, 2011 at 8:10 am PT
The carrier plans to offer a service called DriveSmart Plus that detects when a phone is in a moving car and disables most calling and texting functions.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 6, 2011 at 11:43 am PT
Social apps are few and far between for the grand opening today of Apple’s Mac App Store, meant to be a desktop app marketplace equivalent to the highly successful app stores for Apple devices.
