When one school district in the greater Washington D.C. area decided to get more relaxed about cell phones, it apparently went all the way – not only allowing their use in the hallways and cafeteria, ...

Under the district’s current policy, elementary and middle school students are not allowed to use personal electronic devices ...

According to a study by Pew Internet Research, 75 percent of children ages 12 to 17 own a cell phone, and many of their phones are smartphones, which have Internet access, cameras with video ...

A third of the 20 million American preteen children between the ages of 8-12 already have a cell phone and that level will jump to nearly half by 2010, according to industry experts. With so many ...

Oakland Community College instructor Michael Vollbach remembers the first time he saw a cell phone in his classroom. The early model "looked a lot like an army field radio," he said, and rang like a ...

For her 11th birthday last November, Kenady Slominski received her first cell phone. “She was so honored, she cried,” said her mom, Heather Deziel of Alvarado, Minn., who saw the phone as a way to ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Everywhere you go, people are on their cell phones. They’re talking, they’re texting, they’re using apps, and they’re not paying attention to anything happening around them.

For years, yoga instructor Alice Van Ness has started her classes with a simple request - that students turn their cell phones off. She brought that policy with her to Facebook, where she began ...

The liberalisation of the telecoms industry has brought mixed blessings. Fetters erected by distance have been demolished through voice calls or instant messaging, banking transactions now take place ...