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Articles tagged with: Teenagers
2,000+ Unknown Words Used by Teens in More Than 1.2 Million Text Messages Every Minute
LG Electronics has carried out a survey of text messaging habits by US teenagers that revealed that teens and their younger counterparts--tweens--are sending 20,209 texts every second, or more than 1.2 million texts every minute, in the USA. more
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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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Financial Sites Popular Among Older European Mobile Web Users
..trading services, are the most popular among European mobile subscribers older than 55, while teenagers are more likely to visit social networking, entertainment and even comic sites on their mobile devices. Not surprisingly, however, young more
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EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007. more
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Coalition Supports Bill to Ban Teenage Texting While Driving
..rting efforts to win passage of a bill that would restrict cell phone texting while driving by teenagers. Led by State Senate Pro Tempore Billy Hewes, R-Gulfport, the coalition includes Senators Tom King, R-Petal, Sampson Jackson II, D-DeKalb, a more
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Asking Teens to Turn Down Their Music Player is Counter-Productive
A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods instead turn them up higher. more
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New Car-Ignition Key can Jam Mobile Phones
University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers (or anyone frankly) from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving. more
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Security risks rise as phones become smarter
..y also notes that the figures may mask a more serious situation with many teenagers embarrassed or frightened to admit the truth. With many people now owning smartphones, mobile phones are also being used to safeguard sensitive company informati more
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Teenagers are Shaping and Reshaping Their Wireless World
A generation widely defined by mobility, today's teenagers are now making demands of their mobile devices and, in doing so, redefining what mobility will be in the future, according to a US survey, published by the US trade body - the CTIA, in conjunction with Harris Interactive. more
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Beyond 3G – Ultra-fast Mobile Radio Networks of the Future
.. started out as a luxury item for high-flying executives is now a fashion accessory for teenagers throughout Europe, and increasingly, in the rest of the world. In November 2007 the number of mobile phone subscriptions passed 3.3 billion, more more
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