Science news articles about 'cell phone users'

... Cognitive Psychology. Compared with individuals walking alone, in pairs, or listening to their ipod, cell phone users were the group most prone to oblivious behavior: only twenty-five percent of them ...

... popular, inexpensive devices are owned by almost 3 billion users worldwide, or roughly half the world’s population. Millions of new cell phone users are added each year in countries such as ...

(AP) -- The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned.

Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.

... goal for the home team! By synchronizing a cell phone`s vibrations with the ball in the field, researchers have designed a method that allows cell phone users to experience soccer games in a new way.

... from inattention "blindness," or insufficient processing of information from the driving environment. Cell-phone users may also have found it harder to hold in working memory the intent to exit at the ...

... reduction in fatalities disappeared once the numbers of phones in use reached a "critical mass" of 100 million, ... traffic accidents, Loeb notes. "Cell-phone users' were able to quickly call for medical ...

A prototype application allows cell phone users to write short notes in the air.

How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones?

... likely to get run over. Older cell-phone users, especially those unsteady on their feet to begin ... Prevention, found that college-age adults who were talking on a cell phone took 25 percent longer to ...

... a negative impact on goodwill. For the rest of us, it would be useful if the researchers could pass on their wisdom to the noisy cell phone user with the annoying ringtone who is still on the bus.

(AP) -- In the English-speaking world, many cell phone users leave emergency contact information in the devices' address books under an entry labeled "ICE" - for "in case of emergency."

... the rage these days. But as the economy worsens, these sophisticated devices and the expensive data plans that are required to be purchased along with them, are out of reach for most cell phone users.