| August 1, 2008 | - A community of Welsh Cistercian monks who had been relying on a dial-up Internet connection opted to get a broadband connection. “Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life,” said Father Daniel van Santvoort, “but even the patience of the Brothers was tested by our slow Internet.”
| Source:
Yahoo News
|
| July 25, 2008 | -
Bloggers for the Los Angeles Times received a memo instructing them not to write about a National Enquirer story alleging that former Senator John Edwards was meeting his mistress at an L.A. hotel.
| Source:
Slate
|
| July 25, 2008 | - Edward “Eddie” Davidson, a 35-year-old “spam king” convicted of tax evasion and fraud, escaped from a minimum-security prison in Bennett, Colorado, and killed his wife, his three-year-old daughter, and himself in the SUV they had used in the escape. Davidson's 16-year-old daughter escaped from the vehicle with a neck wound, and a seven-month-old boy was found, unharmed in a car seat, with the victims.
| Source:
Scientific American
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| July 5, 2008 | -
Google co-founder Sergey Brin explained that he had decided to raise his company's on-site daycare fee to $57,000 a year because he was tired of employees who felt entitled to free “bottled water and M&Ms” (although a spokesman denied that he had said this).
| Source:
NYTimes.com
|
| July 3, 2008 | - A judge ruled that Google subsidiary YouTube must provide Viacom, which is suing over copyright claims, with details of the viewing habits of everyone who has logged in and watched a video.
| Source:
BBCNews.com
|
| May 9, 2008 | - The U.S.-backed government of Lebanon tried to dismantle Hezbollah's extensive telecommunications network there, and Hezbollah temporarily seized half of Beirut. “The hand that touches the weapons of the resistance,” said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, “will be cut off.”
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
Haaretz
Source 3:
NYT
Source 4:
Haaretz
Source 5:
The Washington Post
Source 6:
Bloomberg
|
| March 14, 2008 | -
Scientists concluded that destroying information by throwing it into a black hole was not effective, because the information could leak from the hole at 1,000 bits per second, the same speed as a dial-up Internet connection.
| Source:
Scientific American
|
| February 18, 2008 | - The whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org was removed from the Internet after a Swiss bank obtained an injunction against California Web hosting company Dynadot.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
|
| February 1, 2008 | -
Egypt and India were afflicted with limited Internet service.
| Source:
Internet Limping Back to Normalcy
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| October 15, 2007 | - A Virginia woman was fined for attacking a Comcast store with a hammer after the company cut off her phone and Internet connections. ''I smashed a keyboard, knocked over a monitor and I went to hit the telephone,'' she said. ''I figured, 'Hey, my telephone is screwed up, so is yours.'''
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 15, 2007 | - A Virginia woman was fined for attacking a Comcast store with a hammer after the company cut off her phone and Internet connections. ''I smashed a keyboard, knocked over a monitor and I went to hit the telephone,'' she said. ''I figured, 'Hey, my telephone is screwed up, so is yours.'''
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 2, 2007 | -
Burma's junta claimed that peace and stability had been restored following its crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests in which at least 30 people, but likely far more, were killed. Up to 6,000 monks had been arrested, Internet service to the country was almost completely cut off, and the army was paying 20,000 kyat to the families of non-protesters who had been accidentally killed. “Myanmar people,” said a demoralized taxi driver, “have no blood in their veins.”
| Source 1:
VOA
Source 2:
BBC News
Source 3:
Bloomberg
Source 4:
BBC News
Source 5:
The Age
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| September 18, 2007 | - A British man named Anthony Anderson was arrested for urinating on a 57-year-old woman as she lay dying of pancreatic failure. “This,” yelled Anderson as he was filmed, “is YouTube material.”
| Source:
BBC News
|
| August 16, 2007 | - A couple in China named their baby “@.”
| Source:
AP via SFGate.com
|
| August 6, 2007 | - It was reported that Rudolph Giuliani's daughter, Caroline, a member of the Harvard class of 2011, was affiliated with the Facebook.com group “Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)”; she had recently left the group, but her page maintained that her political views are “Liberal” and that she is single, interested in men, and looking for “Friendship,” “Random play,” or “Whatever I can get.”
| Source:
Slate
|
| August 2, 2007 | - An online video game that allows players to torture and kill corrupt officials and their children proved so popular in China that the game's website crashed.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| July 24, 2007 | -
YouTube and CNN co-hosted a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates at The Citadel in South Carolina. After a YouTuber asked the candidates to say something they liked and something they disliked about the candidate to their left, John Edwards said that he approved of Hillary Clinton's record of national service, but perhaps not her salmon-colored jacket. Additional questions came from a Viking, a five-year-old, a snowman, and a man in a chicken costume.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 18, 2007 | - Recently filed court documents described how Henry T. Nicholas III, the billionaire founder of Broadcom, built a $30 million underground sex bunker in Laguna Hills, California, and stocked it with prostitutes flown in by private jet.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
|
| July 4, 2007 | - The European Commission posted a 44-second videoclip of 18 orgasms to YouTube in support of European cinema. Critics complained that the title “Let's Come Together” was too suggestive and that the pun fails to work in all EU languages.
| Source:
Reuters via Msnbc.com
|
| June 25, 2007 | - A study found that Facebook users are wealthier and better educated than their MySpace counterparts.
- A study found that Facebook users are wealthier and better educated than their MySpace counterparts.
| Source:
BBC
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| June 4, 2007 | - A group of men in New York City were accused of using GoogleEarth to plot a terrorist attack on underground jet-fuel lines.
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
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| May 29, 2007 | - The Internet's storehouse of wisdom, information, and pornographic images was determined to weigh 0.2 millionths of an ounce.
| Source:
Discover
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| May 29, 2007 | -
Iran's
telecommunications ministry proclaimed that it will begin filtering immoral messages sent by cell phones.
| Source:
Reuters via eweek.com
|
| May 21, 2007 | - An Irish soldier who won the Military Cross for single-handedly defeating a Baghdad
suicide bomber was facing a court-martial for auctioning his medal on eBay.
| Source:
Ananova
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| May 20, 2007 | -
Hillary Clinton released a video on YouTube. “So now I'm turning to you, the American people,” said Clinton in the clip. “Here's the issue: what do you think our campaign song should be?”
| Source:
YouTube.com
|
| May 18, 2007 | - The Defense Department said that it was cutting off soldiers' access to YouTube and MySpace because the military wanted to “get ahead of the problem before it became a problem.”
| Source:
Wired.com
|
| May 12, 2007 | - The editor of a California news website, explaining that editors and interns “are extremely demanding and produce inferior work,” hired two new reporters who will cover Pasadena from India.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| May 2, 2007 | - The U.S. Army tightened its rules concerning blogging by soldiers.
| Source:
Reuters via CNN.com
|
| April 27, 2007 | - Researchers investigating the collapse of honeybee colonies in Europe and the Americas identified several possible reasons for the catastrophe: poor diet; radiation from mobile phones that disturbs bees' sense of navigation so they cannot fly home; increased solar radiation due to the thinning of the ozone layer; bee AIDS; stress from cross-country travel in trucks; falling queen fertility; the microsporidian fungus Nosema ceranae; or imidacloprid, a pesticide sold under the brand name Gaucho and banned by France in 1999 for spreading “mad bee disease.” Investors were advised to put their money in gold and corn futures to profit off the recession that may result from the disruption of the food chain caused by the vanishing bees. Grapes, which self-pollinate, and olives, which are pollinated by the wind, will not be affected by the bees' disappearance; Christians pointed out that the Book of Revelation predicts that a famine sparing grapes and olives will precede the apocalypse.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
The Register
Source 3:
The Stockmasters
Source 4:
Christian News Wire
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| April 16, 2007 | -
Prince William broke up with his girlfriend via telephone.
| Source:
Daily Mirror
|
| April 10, 2007 | - It was reported that a forthcoming book by the editor of the Washington Post suggests that a Google search might have prevented the Iraq war.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| April 4, 2007 | - At the CNN Center in Atlanta, a woman died after being shot in the face by her estranged boyfriend.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| March 1, 2007 | - In a videoconference with Hong Kong investors, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that America might sink into recession by year's end; a frenzied worldwide sell-off ensued. The Shanghai Composite lost 8.8 percent of its value in a day, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 3.3 percent, its worst drop since September 17, 2001. “Alan Greenspan really needs to sit down,” said one economist, “and be quiet.” Others marveled at the ability of “the Maestro” to cause upheavals even in retirement; Greenspan later held another videoconference, for which he charges fees of $150,000, and said that a recession was ”not probable.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
AP
Source 3:
NPR
|
| February 18, 2007 | - The State Department was fighting
terror by posting
comments on
Arabic blogs.
| Source:
PR
Watch
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| February 7, 2007 | - Remote-controlled “zombie computers” attacked three of the world's largest Internet servers.
| Source:
Boing Boing
|
| January 28, 2007 | - An Australian man sold his life on eBay.
| Source:
AFP via Yahoo!NEWS
|
| January 2, 2007 | - The nation of Qatar appeared to have been blocked from editing Wikipedia.
| Source:
The Lede (New York Times)
|
| December 13, 2006 | - The governor of Alaska announced she would sell a private jet that had been used for state business on eBay.
| Source:
Bloomberg
|
| December 6, 2006 | -
Spam was on the rise.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 4, 2006 | - A man in Tampa was selling his soul on the Internet.
| Source:
Chicago Sun Times
|
| December 1, 2006 | - The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness team issued a “situational awareness report” warning of an Al Qaeda “cyber threat.”
| Source:
BBC
|
| November 3, 2006 | - The Homeland Security
website
texasborderwatch.com began broadcasting live footage of the United States - Mexico border.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
|
| November 3, 2006 | - In South Korea, where miniskirts will soon be legalized, police have begun using “cyber terror units” to curb the rise of online bullying by the mob.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Source 2:
BBC News
|
| November 2, 2006 | - Channel 4, Britain's second largest television network, announced that Google's U.K. advertising revenues would outstrip the broadcaster's own by some hundred million pounds this year. “People need to wake up and realize that this is not just a cyclical issue,” said the network's chief executive. “There is deep structural change, rather like global warming.”
| Source:
Times of London
|
| October 24, 2006 | - The Reproductive Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed that men who use their cell phones too much could be making themselves infertile.
| Source:
The Independent
|
| October 23, 2006 | -
President Bush admitted that he frequently consults “the Google.”
| Source:
Wall Street Journal
|
| October 12, 2006 | -
Libya announced that it would provide laptop computers for 1.2 million schoolchildren.
| Source:
AP via local6.com
|
| October 9, 2006 | -
Google announced that it would buy YouTube for $1.65 billion.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| September 21, 2006 | - Nawar Shora of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said that “the average Yousef” thought of an FBI agent as a “middle-aged white guy talking in their sleeve.”
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| September 15, 2006 | - At Dawson College in Montreal a blogger named Kimveer Gill went on a shooting rampage, wounding 19 people and killing an 18-year-old woman and himself. It was later revealed that Gill had listed “crushing my enemies' skulls” under the “likes” section of his website profile.
| Source:
CTV.ca
|
| August 23, 2006 | -
Microsoft filed suit against two “typosquatter” companies under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which prevents companies from exploiting suggestively similar domain names.
| Source:
The Register
|
| August 14, 2006 | -
Iran was launching missiles at Kurds and cracking down on “decadent” satellite dishes. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed the country would continue to pursue its nuclear program “forcefully,” and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the United States “should be disarmed.”
| Source:
Middle East Times
|
| August 13, 2006 | -
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was writing a blog.
| Source 1:
Times Online
Source 2:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
|
| August 11, 2006 | - A Hiroshima man was arrested for making 37,760 silent phone calls to directory assistance because he wanted “to hear these women's voices.”
| Source:
The Australian
|
| August 7, 2006 | - America Online released the search query data of 658,000 people to the Web, then pulled the information because it could be used to violate user privacy. User 88112, for instance, searched for “christian beliefs and sex outside of marrigae” and “penis abnormalities in children,” while user 843043 searched for “fungal meningitis and coma” and “easter
cookie recipe for jesus' suffering.” “This,” said an AOL representative, “was a screw up.”
| Source:
eWeek
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| July 25, 2006 | -
Britain considered legislation to establish $1,859 fines for cyber-bullying.
| Source:
Daily Mail
|
| July 21, 2006 | - Hillary Clinton warned that advertisers may attempt to place mind-controlling computer chips in the brains of children.
| Source:
Daily News via Google News
|
| July 19, 2006 | -
India was gagging blogs.
| Source:
The Hindu
|
| July 12, 2006 | - Scientists in Massachusetts implanted sensors in a paralyzed man's brain that allowed the man to check email.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| June 22, 2006 | -
AT&T revised its privacy guidelines, removing a stated promise not to “access, read, upload or store data contained in or derived from private files.”
| Source:
CNN
|
| June 15, 2006 | - At least 52 United States agencies were mining data about U.S. citizens, searching for criminals, terrorists, and potential military recruits.
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| June 15, 2006 | - The United States added the secret phone number for its Homeland Security hotline to the federal Do Not Call Registry. “Every time that phone rings,” said Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner, “it's telemarketers.”
| Source:
USA Today
|
| June 14, 2006 | -
Marine Corporal Joshua Belile apologized for appearing in “Hadji Girl,” an Internet-distributed
video in which he plays guitar and jokes about killing an Iraqi family. “They should have known,” he sang, “they were fuckin' with a Marine.”
| Source:
The Mercury News
|
| May 15, 2006 | - It was reported that the United States was analyzing phone call records of reporters from ABC News, the New York Times, and the Washington Post to determine the identities of CIA employees who leak information to the press. "It's time," a federal law enforcement official told a reporter for ABC News, "for you to get some new cell phones, quick."
| Source:
ABC News
|
| May 11, 2006 | - It was revealed that the National Security Agency, with the assistance of AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth, has secretly stored the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans. "It's the largest database ever assembled in the world" said an anonymous whistleblower. A poll found that 63 percent of Americans feel that it is acceptable for the NSA to build such a database.
| Source 1:
USA Today
Source 2:
Media Matters for America
Source 3:
ABC News
|
| May 10, 2006 | - A fight broke out in the lobby of Iraq's parliament building after a cell phone played a Shiite ringtone.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| May 1, 2006 | - A Chinese man used eBay to buy an old MiG fighter jet to decorate his office.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| April 16, 2006 | - It was reported that Donald Rumsfeld was “personally involved” in the torture of Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamed al-Qahtani, who was made to perform “dog tricks”; Rumsfeld was allegedly briefed on the progress of al-Qahtani's interrogations by phone.
| Source:
The Age
|
| April 7, 2006 | - A whistleblower accused AT&T of providing the NSA with full access to customer phone calls and Internet usage records.
| Source:
Wired News
|
| April 5, 2006 | - In China a woman was selected from 70 volunteers to live for seven days in a cage with Internet access and 300 birds.
| Source:
All Headline News
|
| April 3, 2006 | -
Chinese
Internet users were spending two billion hours online each week.
| Source:
Forbes
|
| April 2, 2006 | - A Swedish
study linked heavy cell-phone use to malignant brain tumors.
| Source:
The Jerusalem Post
|
| March 19, 2006 | -
Google was ordered to provide selected search data to the federal government.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| March 16, 2006 | - In California authorities were fitting gang members with GPS anklets.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| March 10, 2006 | -
Al Qaeda was communicating via social networking website MySpace.com.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| March 9, 2006 | - A sociology professor at Suffolk University, Boston, was suspended after being caught browsing Internet
porn sites while teaching a class; he was unaware that his computer was connected to a display behind him.
| Source:
7News Boston
|
| March 8, 2006 | - In Licking County, Ohio, a man was accused of making 2,623 obscene phone calls over 20 days.
| Source:
SFGate.com
|
| March 6, 2006 | -
AT&T announced that it would purchase Bell South for $67 billion and eliminate 10,000 jobs.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| February 25, 2006 | -
Researchers in Chicago verified that a quantum computer does not have to perform any calculations in order to arrive at results.
| Source:
Science News
|
| February 23, 2006 | - Officials in Malden, Massachusetts, were uncertain what to do about a city-hall bathroom after a gay
website said the bathroom was a good spot for cruising.
| Source:
Boston Herald
|
| February 19, 2006 | - Author Margaret Atwood was planning to avoid book tours by signing books via remote-controlled robot.
| Source:
The Independent
|
| February 17, 2006 | - Two Homeland Security guards in Bethesda, Maryland, were in trouble after they accused a man of using an Internet terminal in a public library to view pornography. An official said the guards had “overstepped their authority” and had subsequently been given other duties.
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| February 7, 2006 | - The Arab European League website published cartoons mocking the Holocaust. One showed Adolf Hitler in bed with Anne Frank; Hitler says: “put this in your diary, Anne.”
| Source:
UPI
|
| February 3, 2006 | -
John Kerry was blogging.
| Source:
The Boston Globe
|
| February 2, 2006 | - An Arizona State University student was arrested for masturbating in a school library. "To be honest," he explained, "the Internet connection at my dorm isn't good enough."
| Source:
Web Devil
|
| January 27, 2006 | -
Representative Marty Meehan's staff was caught removing unfavorable facts about Meehan from his Wikipedia entry; in the past the entire House has been banned from editing Wikipedia due to rampant abuse of the online public encyclopedia's editing policies by House staffers.
| Source:
LowellSun.com
|
| January 25, 2006 | -
Google agreed to censor its Chinese search results to please the Chinese government.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| January 20, 2006 | -
Google refused to comply with a Bush Administration subpoena demanding the records for a week's worth of search queries. Yahoo! and Microsoft, however, complied fully, while America Online said it had complied partially.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| December 24, 2005 | - It was reported that the NSA had, with Presidential approval but without warrants, spied on much more Internet and phone traffic than was previously acknowledged.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| December 24, 2005 | - A Missouri woman swallowed a cell phone to keep it away from her boyfriend.
| Source:
AP
|
| December 15, 2005 | -
EBay was selling 85 toys a minute.
| Source:
Click2Houston.com
|
| December 12, 2005 | -
Iraq's Victorious Army Group was holding a contest to see who could design the best website to promote their message of jihad. The contest winner will receive Allah's blessings and be allowed to fire three rockets at an American military base.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| December 1, 2005 | - A Jasper County, Georgia, eighth-grader was dismissed from school after he took down a video camera installed in the school's boys' bathroom; it turned out that the camera had been placed there by the school principal so that he could observe the boys.
| Source:
WMAZ.com
|
| November 22, 2005 | -
President Bush issued pardons to two turkeys, which were then sent to Disneyland to serve as grand marshals at a parade. “The granting of the turkey pardon,” said the President, “is not a responsibility that I take lightly.” The turkeys, Marshmallow and Yam, earned their pardons when they beat out Democracy and Freedom in an online poll.
| Source:
The White House
|
| November 3, 2005 | - In Japan a 16-year-old girl was found to have rendered her mother comatose by dosing her with rat poison over several months. The girl kept track of the poisonings on her blog: “To kill a living creature. The moment of sticking a knife into something. The warmth of the blood. The little sigh. It is all a comfort to me.”
| Source:
Times Online
|
| October 3, 2005 | - The Marines were recruiting on Craigslist.
| Source:
WCBS
|
| September 12, 2005 | -
Oracle was buying Siebel, and eBay was buying Skype.
| Source 1:
Business Week Online
Source 2:
The New York Times
|
| September 11, 2005 | -
Yahoo! admitted that it had helped China track down a journalist, Shi Tao, who had anonymously redistributed a message from the Chinese government suggesting journalists be careful about what they write. Shi is serving a 10-year sentence for revealing "state secrets."
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| August 5, 2005 | - A man in Yorkshire, England, filmed his own suicide on his mobile phone and beamed it to his girlfriend.
| Source:
Sky News
|
| June 25, 2005 | - The NAACP named former Verizon
executive Bruce S. Gordon as president.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| June 23, 2005 | - Gnawing rats shut down telephone, mobile, Internet, and electronic-banking services for 100,000 New Zealanders.
| Source:
AP
|
| May 24, 2005 | - Two teenagers in Marysville, California, hacked into their school's computer system to change their grades. They accidentally altered the grades of all 18,697 students in the school district, and were arrested.
| Source:
Monterey Herald
|
| May 17, 2005 | - Researchers in Singapore developed a system that allows people to pet chickens over the Internet.
| Source:
Wired News
|
| May 7, 2005 | - The Mayor of Spokane, Washington, an opponent of gay rights, was accused of being a pedophile; he insisted that he cruised the Internet only for men of legal age.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
|
| April 25, 2005 | -
Walter Cronkite was planning to start a blog.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 12, 2005 | - A Danish study found no link between cell phones and brain tumors.
| Source:
InformationWeek
|
| April 8, 2005 | - A Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in jail.
| Source:
AP
|
| March 16, 2005 | - The Department of Homeland Security was preparing for: the detonation of a ten-kiloton nuclear device; a biological attack with aerosolized anthrax; an outbreak of pneumonic plague; a flu pandemic starting in south China; the spraying of a chemical blister agent over a football stadium; an attack on an oil refinery; the explosion of a tank of chlorine; a 7.2-magnitude earthquake; a major hurricane in a metropolitan area; three Cesium-137 dirty bombs going off in three different cities, each contaminating thirty-six city blocks; the detonation of improvised bombs in sports stadiums and emergency rooms; liquid anthrax in ground beef; a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak; and a cyber attack on the nation's financial infrastructure.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| March 10, 2005 | - A new service, Talktoaliens.com, allowed people to send messages directly into space via telephone for $3.99 a minute.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| March 6, 2005 | - The White House Press Office approved a press pass for a blogger.
| Source:
Raw Story
|
| February 24, 2005 | - Members of Congress were themselves blogging.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 14, 2005 | -
Verizon agreed to buy MCI.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| February 5, 2005 | - The telecommunications industry had merger fever.
| Source:
Forbes
|
| December 15, 2004 | - A poll found that gay people make more cell phone calls.
| Source:
Gaywire
|
| December 6, 2004 | - Scientists developed a biodegradable cell phone cover that turns into a sunflower when thrown away.
| Source:
CNN
|
| July 1, 2004 | - American military officers were worrying that promotional cans of Coca-Cola including cell phones and global positioning chips could be used to eavesdrop on classified meetings.
| Source:
Yahoo
|
| September 22, 2003 | -
Iraq's governing council announced that it was opening the entire Iraqi economy, including essential services such as electricity, telecommunications, and health, to foreign investors. Taxes and trade tariffs will be cut, though oil and other natural resources will be exempt from the new policy.
| Source:
Independent
|
| February 25, 2003 | -
At least 120 people died in an arson attack in a South Korean subway. Many of the victims, who were trapped inside the burning cars, used their cell phones to call family members to say goodbye. “Forgive me for leaving before you,” one boy told his mother.
| |
| October 29, 2002 | -
Another suicide bomber killed three people after he was shot by soldiers at a gas station. A reporter at the scene noticed that a cell phone was ringing in a dead soldier's pocket.
| |
| September 17, 2002 | -
Levi Strauss introduced a new line of trousers with an “anti-radiation” pocket designed to shield wearers from mobile phone emissions.
| |
| September 10, 2002 | -
The Greek Internet Cafe Union sued the Greek government because of a new law that bans playing games on all computers, consoles such as the PlayStation, and mobile phones.
| |
| October 30, 2001 | - Italians who were deprived of their cell phones reported sexual dysfunction, researchers found, and most Britons sleep naked.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | - The European Parliament heard testimony that Echelon, America's rumored spy network, can monitor any telecommunication that bounces off a satellite.
| |
| August 14, 2001 | -
Singapore's highest Islamic authorities declared that Muslim men, who can divorce their wives by stating “I divorce you” three times in quick succession, may not do so via cell phone text messages.
| |
| June 26, 2001 | - Male birds in Australia were observed mimicking the sound of a cell phone during courtship.
| |
| December 5, 2000 | - CityNet Telecommunications announced plans to deploy robots to string fiber-optic cable through city sewer pipes in Albuquerque and Omaha.
| |
| November 21, 2000 | -
Queen Elizabeth II of England banned the use of cell phones among her retainers.
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