cell phones

Can a Louisiana police officer check your phone during a traffic stop or at the scene of a crash if they suspect you were on your phone?

  The bill that aims to eliminate all cell phones from the hands of drivers will head to senate. Texting while driving is of course illegal, however, holding your cell phone in your hand while driving is not, as of right now. I know, that's quite the gray area when it comes to policing texting while driving as opposed to holding a cell phone in general, but this bill aims to help un-blur the lines

Students are asked to keep their cell phone on silent and locked up in their locker or backpack or risk it being confiscated by school staff then pay a 'ransom' fee to get it returned.

When it comes to Siri, we finally have some insight into what makes her work.

By this point, it should be fairly obvious that getting distracted by a cell phone can be extremely hazardous to your health. And yet, a teen girl in California actually fell into a pit of rattlesnakes while searching for a signal in the desert. Need further proof? We didn't think so.

Generally, we let our cellphone go to voicemail when we're busy. Not so French daredevil Trancede Melet, who actually took a call while walking a 20 meter gap suspended 1,000 feet in the air. At least he wasn't texting. That would've been crazy dangerous.

Currently, 10 states and the District of Columbia ban any cell phone use while operating a motor vehicle. According to a new survey from AutoTrader.com, though, most people would be okay if this restriction spread to the rest of the country.

The basic necessities of life may be food, water and shelter, but a new survey suggests the modern day world might be prepared to trade in sustenance for communication, as many Americans are now spending more money on their cell phone plans than they are on things to eat.

Those inconsiderate people who jabber away on their cell phones in public aren’t just annoying — according to a new study, they also slobber more. Sexy!

Was this UK man not happy with T-Mobile's 4G coverage? Was their data plan just too pricey? Who knows what cause this man to destroy a T-Mobile store by ripping the display phone off the wall and spraying them with fire extinguishers, but this is a must watch video.

We've all been there. Using our cell phone to make a call and suddenly our call is dropped. We usually just assume that we've entered a "dead zone," but it might be someone using a cell phone jammer that causes that dropped call. NBC10 in Philadelphia caught a man on a Philadelphia bus using an illegal cell phone jammer to end people cell phone conversations.

Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast makes some interesting (some may say frightening) predictions, including the fact that the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population sometime this year.