SF News California Legislature Passes Bill to Ban or Limit Cellphone Use in Schools California will likely soon become the fifth state in the nation to ban students from using smartphones in schools, though the full ban likely would not go into effect until the 2026-27 school year.
SF News Google's New Pixel 2 Phone Proves They're Serious About Mobile Hardware Back with the highest-rated smartphone camera ever, meet the new Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL → https://t.co/jdr9S9hBzb #madebygoogle pic.twitter.com/OtU78fLTJB— Google (@Google) October 4, 2017 Google unveiled
SF News Walk And Text? Not If This Bay Area Supe Has His Way A San Mateo County Supervisor is aiming his sights on the scourge of "distracted walking" today, with a proposal to ban use of cell phones by pedestrians as they cross the street. San
SF News 60 Minutes Exposes 'Brain Hacking' By Silicon Valley Engineers To Make Cellphones More Addictive More and more these days, people are having conversations about what we've lost in our hyper-connected world, and the harm that is being done at the very least through wasted time when so
SF News Starting Sunday, You Could Get A Ticket For Holding A Cellphone While Driving A new California law takes effect on January 1 that prohibits all use of a handheld cellphone while driving, including hitting the skip button on a playlist, looking at a map app, texting,
Arts & Entertainment 72 New Emoji Arriving In June Include New Penis Stand-Ins Cucumber And Baguette The shadowy (but not really) Unicode Consortium has approved 72 new emoji after a flood of public input which will be included in the Unicode 9.0 release, arriving in June 2016. The
SF News California's Homeless Can Now Get Free Cellphones, 250 Free Text Messages Homeless and impoverished Californians can now receive free cellphones under an expanded program from the California Public Utilities Commission and the FCC. The expansion was approved by the CPUC last week and allows
SF News Bill Could Ban Texting For Cyclists Palo Alto Senator Joe Simitian, the man who authored the 2008 California ban on using cellphones while driving sans the use of a hands-free device, now wants a similar ban placed on cyclists
SF News No, You May Not Use Your Cell Phone at a Red Light, Court Rules Answering that phone call or shooting off a quick text while waiting for the light to change can still net you hefty ticket, a state appeals court ruled yesterday. In a ruling that
SF News Phoning-While-Driving Incident Leads to Police Chase, Fatal Accident What should have been a routine traffic stop ended in a fatal car accident yesterday evening when a driver in Concord refused to stop for a patrol car that spotted him talking on
SF News S.F. Cell Phone Users Should Get Ready for More Dropped Calls New legislation, proposed by Supervisors David Campos and John Avalos and inspired by a fight over a new cell phone tower in Bernal Heights, may make it more difficult to place a call
SF News AT&T Allegedly Dealing With Dead Zones in S.F. The Business Times reports today that AT&T is pleased with themselves and "proud of the network [they] have built", as they continue to beef up their data network in San Francisco
SF News AT&T Investing Lots In Network Upgrades, But Where? Today's Business Journal notes that AT&T has already invested $1.1 billion this year to upgrade wireless (and wired) networks across California, which has included 100 new cell sites, 25 antennas
SF News Driver Chatting On Cellphone Drives Into River, Dies On Saturday, according to The Chronicle, an Antioch woman "drove off a boat ramp and into the Sacramento River while she was talking on a cell phone with her daughter, asking for directions,
SF News Apple May Get Bigamous With Verizon for Both iPhone and iSlate Listen up everyone: In case you hadn't heard the big buzz, the people who brought you the Jesus Phone -- which ended up being pretty cool but still has its drawbacks like everything
misc Verizon Droid: Big Deal? Or Just Another Late Arrival Rival? According to this woman, who was in line at 3 a.m. this morning at a Verizon store in order to be the very first owner of a Motorola Droid phone in SF,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "No Signal" Horror Movie Cell Phone Montage Brilliant pop culture blogger FourFour gives us this brilliant montage (which must have required, like, months of work) in which he edits together the myriad moments from recent horror film history in which
SF News Live Re-Posting of Apple Launch Event Liveblogging Five months after a liver transplant, Steve Jobs is alive and on stage at Apple's "It's only rock and roll" event this morning. The focus is on music, and the release of iTunes
SF News The iPhone Is Killing AT&T, One 'Bump' Download at a Time Many AT&T customers, including the legion of iPhone users out there, may be aware of some wonkiness with their wonder devices of late. Dropped calls, delayed voicemails, inability to access voicemail,
SF News Burning Man '09 to Feature Texting, Cell Phone Service Gone are the days of the technology and currency-free oasis of drugs, dust and art both whimsical and questionable. In a development sure to be heralded by many as the final shark to
SF News Study: Hands-Free Cellphoning Not The Answer Hundreds of pages of research on the risks of cellphone use while driving, conducted in 2003 as part of a long-term study that was never given the go-ahead by the government, have been
