Sentences with phrase «of cellphone use»

A new study by IIHS and Virginia Tech helps clarify the risk of cellphone use behind the wheel and offers insight into other distracting behaviors that drivers engage in.

It is currently estimated that at least half of all car accidents are related to the distraction of cellphone use, and this is likely an underestimation.

The 1996 FCC limits reflected six minutes of cellphone use per day in a man with a large body frame and head size.

Not exact matches

The current rules on the sale or transfer of radiowaves used to operate cellphone networks don't allow incumbents to bid on and win more than one block, but this doesn't apply to new entrants, said Yaghi.

Here's a crazy idea when it comes to wireless roaming: how about Canadians being able to use their one and only cellphones with the same single numbers in whatever countries they want at a reasonable cost without having to jump through all kinds of hoops?

So, while to the rest of the world I was simply speaking to a photo of Richard Branson on my cellphone screen, I was really using him to remind me of past times when I was able to succeed.

It's important to note that the smartphone measure counts the number of total cellphone users who are using advanced devices, and is not a per capita measure.

Many were taught how to use a computer before they learned to ride a bike, and 83 percent sleep with their cellphone within arm's reach of their bed.

The Pew Research Center found in a recent poll that 9 per cent of American cellphone owners use Snapchat.

In some states, earbuds, while allow people to stay compliant with the law while talking on a cellphone hands - free, actually run afoul of laws that prohibit the use of headphones while driving.

The convenience of cellphones has made it possible to talk to others any time and anywhere, but there is still an art to using the phone properly in a professional setting.

Not too edgy, though: expect frowns if you text at the bar, since cellphone use is banned outside of the special phone booths.

By 2015, that number had edged up to 442, and a total of 69,000 crashes had taken place with a cellphone in use.

In all, 89 % of cellphone owners reported using their phone in at least one of these eight ways during their most recent social gathering.

A handful of schools in the New York area is rolling out an experimental new curriculum designed to educate students on how to use cellphones safely, CBS News reports.

For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept...

So is your cellphone for the amount of use that pertains to the business.

Similar technology could be used to allow readers who snap a cellphone picture of a photo in their newspaper to view a video on their phone, he said.

FILE - In this July 1, 2014 file photo, passers - by use cellphones in front of electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo.

Of course, do you remember the very first time you tried to use a cellphone?

Much of the concern about cellphones and instant messaging and Twitter has been focused on how children who incessantly use the technology are affected by it.

«I know that the trend is moving ever younger in terms of cellphone ownership,» Blair says, «but middle - schoolers generally do not possess the maturity and self - control to use some of these tools safely and responsibly.»

But I've never bothered to learn the basics of food photography, nor do I use a real camera, and half the time the meal looks so downright gross in a cellphone photo that I decide not to share it.

By putting so much of our personal identity on the Internet, especially through the use of cellphones, hackers are finding it much easier to access critical information about individuals.

Fill it with bottled water, some healthy snacks, a few magazines, your portable home phone or cellphone (so you don't have to get up to answer or make calls), plenty of burp cloths or cotton diapers for dribbles and spit - up, and the remote controls if you want to use a TV, DVD player, or stereo nearby.

I'm using a projector / music player that has bluetooth, so now, if she wakes in the night, I can turn it back on using my cellphone and not even get out of bed.

The 2017 legislative session in the state Senate kicked off on an acrimonious note Wednesday with Democrats blasting a «Trump - style» change in the rules that bans the use of cellphones from recording video or taking photos.

We should see the first widespread use of mobile fundraising as well, particularly at events, where tablets and cellphones using technologies like Square will process credit card transactions on the spot.

Police in New York state may soon have a high - tech way of catching texting drivers: a device known as a textalyzer that allows an officer to quickly check if a cellphone has been in use before a crash.

The unidentified woman emerged from the state police station inside the state Capitol while Cuomo of New Castle was standing nearby, discussing an earlier arrest of a Daily News reporter who was caught using his cellphone in violation of posted rules.

The unidentified woman emerged from the state police station inside the state Capitol while Cuomo was standing nearby, discussing the earlier arrest of a Daily News reporter who was caught using his cellphone in violation of posted rules.

Ortiz says the new measure is needed in part because of new technology that can detect cellphones being used in a passing car.

I also agree that the uses of cellphones are increasing by leaps and bounds.

This sucker could transform lives in so many ways it's not even funny: besides charging economy - altering cellphones and giving children the ability to study after dark, it can help in areas ranging from health (the kerosene lamps currently typically used for night - time lighting are terrible on the lungs) to economics (kerosene can suck up 25 - 30 % of a family budget) to global warming (kerosene = carbon emissions).

Supervisor Patrick Casilio said it will focus on the location of microcell towers, which are small towers used to enhance signal strength for cellphones.

A federal judge handed indicted Albany politician Dean Skelos a pile of legal defeats Tuesday, tossing out his motion to dismiss two of his corruption charges and ruling that prosecutors can use all the evidence they scored by wiretapping his cellphone, new court papers state.

Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan has asked the state Committee on Open Government for a formal opinion on the Senate's adoption this week of chamber rules that bar the use of cellphones as recording devices — a prohibition that Hoylman strongly suspects is a violation of state Open Meetings Law.

Kevin M. Tuffey, a former State Police senior investigator who was chief of the Albany Police Department in the late 1990s, and Stanley C. Sardinia, a former NYPD detective, worked at the authority for years and were involved in the investigation of whether a former top authority official's government cellphone had been used to contact a suspected prostitute, according to the people familiar with the case.

Debated a policy on use of cellphones by board members during meetings.

The Senate itself was not in session at the time of the incident, and rules for using a cellphone or a camera are generally waived.

The final day of the session in March was preceded by an unusual one: A reporter talking on his cellphone in the Capitol was arrested after being told he couldn't use it in the lobby of the state Senate.

Ken Lovett, the longtime bureau chief for The Daily News in Albany, was arrested Wednesday while using his cellphone in the lobby of the state Senate.

The FOIL covers all communications made using phone, email, Blackberry PIN, and personal cellphones, and it focuses on the role of governor's senior staff, especially Lawrence Schwartz, a top aide.

New York state lawmakers began their work with a vote to prohibit the use of cellphones as recording devices in the Senate chambers.

Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.

To help make ideas about energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same energy - releasing and energy - requiring chemical reactions and energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.

Yet there are also a billion or so other people who use cellphones to visit cyberspace, making them as much a part of the online community as someone surfing from a PC.

Tests of Mobicast using cellphones capturing views of Cairo saw the feeds from up to three phones successfully stitched together.

When used in a real emergency situation, DADS will utilise location data from thousands of cellphones, triangulated and streamed from masts in the region of the emergency.

A new study looks at the influence of child presence and work obligations on cellphone use in car.