Cell Phones

Tornado survivor huddled with dogs as house started moving

2013-05-21 18:50:00

MOORE, Okla. — When Josephine Owings heard the shriek of tornado sirens Monday afternoon, she scooped up her "babies" — her tiny lap dogs, Emma and Harley — and took shelter in her bathroom. Her cell phone rang. It was her daughter-in-...

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung asked to help fight cellphone thefts

2013-05-13 13:50:00

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman�is pressing leading cellphone manufacturers to do more to help stem a growing tide of mobile phone thefts.� On Monday, Schneiderman's office sent letters to Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft, asking...

Food photography 101: Framing food with your phone

2013-03-11 09:00:00

This is part of a series of posts on food photography, sharing some of the tips and tricks we use here at The Times. We received a number of great questions from readers, which we will answer in upcoming posts. Here, photographer�Robert Lachman tackles...

Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination

2013-03-07 11:21:00

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...

Cellphones shouldn't be able to work in moving cars, experts say

2013-03-06 06:30:00

Thousands of people die in car crashes each year because drivers were too distracted by their cellphones to pay attention to the road. A pair of researchers from West Virginia University have a radical proposal for reducing that death toll – equip...

Wendy Greuel subpoenas cellphone companies for billing records

2013-01-04 11:42:10

The Land of ooohs for back to school fashion

2012-08-19 00:00:00

Baby hipsters and BFFs Kaylee Vega and Madi Spadaro, both 13 and from Redondo Beach, are navigating the South Bay Galleria in Torrance with shark-like aggression. They've been saving pocket money all summer, and now, just weeks before school starts at the...

Technology at ski resorts offers skiers info, images of day on slopes

2011-12-11 00:00:00

The first rule of skiing: There are no friends on a powder day. Technology has infiltrated every corner of our lives, but really, the idea of tweeting my snow stashes is sacrilege. In the spirit of keeping up with the technology, however, I set aside...

Texting in movie theaters: An idea whose time has come?

2012-05-01 16:37:37

When diners' eyes feast on their cellphones

2012-01-26 00:00:00

Ding. Bzzzt. Bap. Beep. That's the sound of conversation in restaurants these days. Where cellphones once posed a nuisance as people chatted loudly into them during meals, they now present a whole new set of etiquette issues as entire tables disappear...

Alec Baldwin Twitter account deleted after American Airlines spat

2011-12-07 16:37:46

Indian court cancels 122 telecom licenses in anti-corruption move

2012-02-02 04:37:50

Eileen T'Kaye, left, and Alina Phelan in Sarah Ruhl's "Dead Man's Cell Phone" at International City Theatre. The Long Beach company is offering free admission to high school students for the show and its two following productions.

2013-05-24 13:52:21

When you scream into your cell phone on a crowded bus about your chlamydia outbreak, do you ever think that other people will notice? -- independence 21 via Reddit What other people think about you should never really matter.

2013-04-23 00:00:00

My first cell phone, purchased in the early 1990s, looked something like this.

2013-04-11 00:00:00