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Radiation Labels For Cell Phones? Maine Says No, San Francisco Says Yes
While the city of San Francisco endeavors onwards to make it a legal requirement for cell phone makers to include radiation labels on their handsets, various Maine lawmakers have been pushing a similar bill that would require labels on phones and packaging warning users (especially the pregnant women and helpless children) keep the devices away…
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Paid an ETF to AT&T/Cingular in the last 12 years? Your check is in the mail (maybe)
What is $18 million divided amongst all the former subscribers of AT&T Wireless/Cingular who paid a flat-rate ETF between January 1, 1998 and November 4, 2009 minus lawyer fee’s? Not a whole lot, but if you happen to fit into that category then you should be getting your portion in the mail (hopefully sometime this…
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WTF!?! IBM patents shorthand speak! PPCG BBQ FTW LMAO!
As it seems to reason, all shorthand textual communication is now patented by IBM. At least this is the conclusion I came to after reading the following on TechDirt– theodp writes “The USPTO has granted IBM a patent covering the Resolution of Abbreviated Text in an Electronic Communications System, lawyer-speak for translating “IMHO” to “In…
