Talkback: What are your cell phone commandments?
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(InfoWorld) - Technology may update and improve at a staggeringly fast rate, but some tech stories always seem to remain relevant no matter what new developments arise -- or even because of new developments. Case in point:Â the 10 Cell Phone Commandments. This story originally ran in 2000, but it struck such a nerve that it never seems to lose popularity at InfoWorld.com. In fact, as it gets noticed and re-noticed, commenters have indicated that 10 commandments may not be enough andÂ have offered some excellent suggestions on keeping these rules up to date.Â In that spirit,Â we have updated the 10 Cell Phone Commandments, and we invite you to discuss the issue further below.
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Living with ads that contact your cell phone and ask if they can be shown to you.
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Four churches in Mexico have unobtrusively installed Israeli-made cell-phone jammers to thwart those who don't seem to understand they should turn the thing off in during services or weddings. They're not the only ones in the world to do it.
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Users in the United States continue to think of a cellphone as a device for talking, not text messaging. Marketers, however, hope to change that as soon as possible.
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Amid the cacophony of cell phone ringtones these days, add these: the clickety-click-click of a rare Central American poison arrow dart frog, the howl of a Mexican gray wolf and the bellows of an Arctic beluga whale.
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Cheats! Letters Let's get right to it. This week, there was terrible news for sleepy people on rush hour trains: Mobile phones are safe to use.â¦
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ROMAN Catholics who cannot find the time to pray can phone a new call centre where someone will do it for them.   Manned by a team of 200 volunteers on a rota basis the "call centre of the faithful" is staffed from 9am until 11pm. And at night there is an answer machine.
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Cell phones in public are annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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Sound advice on choosing the right carrier for your needs. Plus: Why no cell phones on planes? By Robert Strohmeyer and Clive Thompson from Wired Test.
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I've apparently been carrying around pretty dumb cell phones over the years - and I bet many of you have as well. That's what the telecom geniuses would have us believe, anyway. These phones don't organize our lives, don't play music, don't take pictures or videos and don't handle e-mail.
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You might ignore your mobile phone if your ringtone is Beethoven's "Fur Elise," but what if it's a gruff voice that yells "Pick up the damn phone?"
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What's the proper use of a speaker phone? A colleague uses hers to listen to voicemail messages and to make all of her outgoing calls so that I can hear the dialing. It's very distracting and annoying.
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If you are in Sudan it is a &#39;missed call&#39;. In Ethiopia it is a &#39;miskin&#39; or a &#39;pitiful&#39; call. In other parts of Africa it is a case of &#39;flashing&#39;, &#39;beeping&#39; or in French-speaking areas &#39;bipage&#39;.
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Wireless phone service is one of the great bargains of the modern age. When The Post began its annual comparison of cellular calling plans in 1998, $40 bought a lousy 100 minutes of talk time a month.
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Constantly talking on your cellphone is making you less independent and less able to experience your life as fully as you should.
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As any cell-phone user knows, background noise, including traffic jams and bustling streets, can be a nuisance. The cacophony becomes even worse when the caller insists on yelling over the noise.
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As mobile phones become ever more ubiquitous, so too do those annoyed by inconsiderate chatterers. Designers across the country are finding ways to reduce the risk of coming to blows. By Rachel Metz.