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Scammers are trying to capitalize on the widespread reports about cancer threats posed by the use of the cell phones.

The Federal Trade Commission decided to step in and help consumers evade being scammed into buying products that supposedly "shield" users from cell phone emissions.

Beijing is introducing one more tool to surveil Chinese people via their mobile phones. According to the report by the Next Web the government plans to establish a program to track the movement of citizens using their cell phones.

The program literally translated as the “Platform for Citizen Movement Information” will be used to monitor traffic flow so as to improve Beijing’s public travel and reduce traffic congestion.

The world top mobile phone maker Nokia said that one out of every 5 cell phones sold worldwide are illegal or unlicensed copycats which damages the position of leading vendors in emerging markets.

"It is mostly China-originated, but it is global. It is not only in Asia, but also in Latin America and even in some parts of Europe," said Esko Aho, a member of Nokia's executive board.

Federal Communications Commission is being urged by a non-for-profit entity called the Environmental Health Trust (EHT) to "stop flip-flopping and acknowledge and publicize the risks of cell phone radiation." At the agenda is the need in proper regulation that would force cell phone makers to slap a warning label on their devices.

As it has become known, Bling Nation has signed pretty major deal with PayPal. So, from now Bling Nation’s payment systems will let consumers use their payment chips to withdraw funds from a PayPal account.

This is a big win for startup’s system, which originally had ambitions of solely focusing on hyperlocal banks in small communities.

The largest study, conducted by British scientists amid 7,000 children and patterns of early childhood cancers across Britain, defined that living close to a cell phone mast does not increase the risk of a pregnant woman's baby developing cancer.

According to a recent study by the National Center for Health Statistics about a quarter of US households use only cell phones instead of landline phones. The report says that while 15% of families have standard plug-in phones they almost never use them.

"One of every four American homes (24.5 percent) had only wireless telephones (also known as cellular telephones, cellphones, or mobile phones) during the last half of 2009 -- an increase of 1.8 percentage points since the first half of 2009," the report reads.

A study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed that teens are increasingly using SMS services for communication with each other. The research reveals that over the past 18 months daily texting increased from 38% of teens texting their friends daily in 2008 to 54% of them texting daily in 2009. The average teen sends and receives 50 or more messages per day, or 1,500 per month.

Nokia, the largest mobile phone maker, reported this week that it had purchased U.S. geographic technology firm MetaCarta in a move to provide local navigation services to its customers. The price of the deal was not unveiled with the only fact known that the Massachusetts-based company employed more than 30 people.

How can reverse cell phone lookup make your life more convenient? No, using a simple online search to look up the owner of a cell phone number is not going to be the key to your future happiness. It's not going to spawn world peace, slow global warming, or boost the economy.

But using the reverse cell phone search capabilities now available online can make your life a little more convenient by helping you resolve some of those minor irritations that drain you during a long, hard day.

 Poor people in India will be able to share one mobile phone and make calls while paying separate bills. Comviva Technologies, an Indian vendor of technology for value-added services, introduces its "Virtual SIM" technology to target customers in India, Africa and other developing markets who cannot afford buying a handset the cost of which could work out to about six months of their disposable income.

 According to the results of the study conducted by the Danish Cancer Society cell phones have nothing to do with the cancer of the human brains. The research that reviewed the effects of wireless phone radiation on the brain over a 30 year period and it is still on. But the results obtained to date show that there is not “any clear change in the long-term time trends in the incidence of brain tumours.”

China Unicom, the second-largest Chinese carrier, is expanding its 3G wireless handset portfolio as the company has officially announced its new cell phone brand called the “Uphone". The device will run on the company’s proprietary “UniPlus" operating system, which is based on the Google Inc’s android platform.

 14 million mobile phone chargers produced by China's BYD Co Ltd will be replaced for free by Nokia as the chargers were found having some problems that could lead to their falling apart and exposing consumers to risk of electrical shock.

"We are undertaking this exchange program as a proactive, precautionary measure. We are not aware of any incidents or injuries relating to these three (models of) chargers," said Nokia spokesman Doug Dawson.

 Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a survey that showed the opinion that Americans became more isolated because of the wide-spread and highly-used cellphones and the Internet is not true. It is as wrong as the statement that friends become more distant and all conversations with them are not personal and people around them are filtered out.