mobile phones

When I started writing this piece, I titled it: “Will Mobile Phones Ruin Your Eyes”?  After researching the Web, though, I decided to include other parts of the anatomy, like ears, brains and livers. By far, most researchers are studying the relationship between mobile phones and brain cancer. In fact, you could spend several days [...]

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Could it be–like movie-going during the Great Depression–that mobile phones offer the same escape from reality in hard times? Are we becoming a nation–a world–of digital nomads wandering a bleak desert with no horizon in sight? I couldn’t help feeling today at the Mall, as I watched mobiles walking, texting, playing games and tweeting, that [...]

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Dell’s soon-to-be-released Streak mobile smartphone/tablet raises mobile convergence to a new level. Computers are turning into tablets, like Dell’s 5″ screen device, while smartphone displays are growing larger. The latest Android phones, such as Sprint’s HTC EVO and Verizon’s Droid X, have 4.3″ screens. If this trend continues, the Universe will turn inside out. Big [...]

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