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[telecom] Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
U.S. High School Students Improve Motor Vehicle-related Health Behaviors Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six types of...
 
[telecom] Despite penalties, many fear message may not be heeded
Despite penalties, many fear message may not be heeded By Billy Baker Globe Staff / June 7, 2012 HAVERHILL - They have heard it from their teachers. They have heard it from their parents. They have...
 
[telecom] Haverhill teen to serve year in jail for fatal texting crash; judge calls for people to keep eyes on road
Haverhill teen to serve year in jail for fatal texting crash; judge calls for people to keep eyes on road By Brian R. Ballou and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff 6/6/2012 HAVERHILL - Saying he was...
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[telecom] Mystery of Big Data's Parallel Universe Brings Fear, and a Thrill
Mystery of Big Data's Parallel Universe Brings Fear, and a Thrill By DENNIS OVERBYE June 4, 2012 Not long ago, a woman in Tacoma, Wash., received a suggestion from Facebook that she "friend" another...
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Ring voltage measurment question [telecom]
I have a traditional rural land line with two 2500 sets [1] attached. Recently I've been getting intermittent weak ringing: sometimes a ring, sometimes a weak chatter (no gong), sometimes nothing...
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[telecom] Found: prices behind Verizon's 300Mbps FiOS upgrades
Found: prices behind Verizon's 300Mbps FiOS upgrades At $204.99 per month is a little pricey, but come June 17 there'll be takers. by Megan Geuss June 2 2012 An employee at Verizon revealed the price...
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[telecom] One nano-SIM to rule them all: Apple submission approved as standard
One nano-SIM to rule them all: Apple submission approved as standard The ETSI decision will open the door for thinner and more capable phones. by Jacqui Cheng June 1 2012 The nano-SIM design proposed...
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[telecom] Fighting Sign Pollution in Florida With Robocalls
Fighting Sign Pollution in Florida With Robocalls By ROBBIE BROWN June 2, 2012 In Florida, they are as much a part of the landscape as palm trees and oceanfront hotels: plastic signs cluttering...
 
[telecom] Privacy, Please: This Is Only for the Two of Us
Privacy, Please: This Is Only for the Two of Us By JENNA WORTHAM June 2, 2012 SOME friends were gushing recently about a new mobile application called Pair, intended for people in a relationship....
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[telecom] 32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow - Interactive Feature
The electric light was a failure. Invented by the British chemist Humphry Davy in the early 1800s, it spent nearly 80 years being passed from one initially hopeful researcher to another, like some...
 
Just got some of those fraudulent calls [telecom]
A woman with foregin accent claiming to be from Microsoft just called me saying that they have a report that my computer is harboring a virus. I've heard of these calls, being a way to sucker the user...
 
[telecom] AT&T: Industry likely to offer data-only phone plans in 2 years; calls counting as data usage
AT&T: Industry likely to offer data-only phone plans in 2 years; calls counting as data usage By Associated Press June 1, 2012 NEW YORK - The CEO of AT&T Inc. said Friday that cellphone plans that...
 
[telecom] Fix your cellphone or iPod for a fraction of the cost
Fix your cellphone or iPod for a fraction of the cost Save money on smartphone repairs CLEVELAND - We've all dropped our cellphone dozens of times. Some of the more-sensitive smartphones can shatter...
 
[telecom] Why your cell phone is ripe for spam texts in 2012
Why your cell phone is ripe for spam texts in 2012 By Nancy Scola June 1, 2012 In the late 1970s, the cutting edge of communications technologies was the autodialer, a machine capable of calling up...
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[telecom] Use Your Cell Phone Carrier's Data Limit Protection to Your Advantage
Use Your Cell Phone Carrier's Data Limit Protection to Your Advantage 6/1/2012 Children and teens can easily go over their cell phone data limit playing games, surfing the Internet, downloading music....