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US Teens Going Online Wirelessly Without Limits or Controls

A survey of US internet users has found that the majority of teenagers who access the internet via a mobile phone have no parental or software based restrictions on what content they can view. In total, the Cox Communications funded survey found that nineteen percent of teens surveyed go online via their cell phone and 19 percent say their parents are unaware. The vast majority of teens (80 percent) whose parent know they go online via their cell phone say they are not given any limits or controls -- far fewer than are given boundaries on their desktop PC or laptop.  more

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Is That a Cell Phone in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Americans seem to always be on their PDA's and cell phones, hard at work wherever they are. Or are they? There may be another reason men and women are intensely typing away on their electronic devices, and it isn't business. Harlequin's Romance Report 2007 found that more than 55% of men and 47% of women in the U.S. have sent a sexually explicit email, text or instant message to someone -- proving you just may be able to mix business and pleasure. more

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