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Sleep with your iPhone? You're not alone

Jul 26, 2011Associated Press

For some, the anxious feeling that they might miss something has caused them to slumber next to their smartphones. More than a third of U.S. adults - 35 percent - now own a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center, and two-thirds of them s...

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Is texting safer than talking on a cellphone?

Jun 6, 2011Houston Chronicle

A World Health Organization study released last week suggested a possible link between cellphone use and cancer, but early news reports didn't differentiate between talking and texting.

In fact, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, the chairman of ...

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Hispanics lead U.S. embrace of mobile technology

May 20, 2011CNN

[...] last summer Pew found that more than 87 percent of English-speaking U.S. Hispanics owned a cell phone, vs. 80 percent of non-Hispanic whites. Read More

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Texting Trends & Human Contact

Oct 19, 2010NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook

Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie discussed cell phone trends and texting culture on NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook. Other guests include Katherine Rosman, reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at America...

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Smartphones: Our national obsession

Oct 18, 2010CNN

It seems America is getting hooked on the smartphone. We depend on these modern Swiss Army knives for everything from planning our schedules to checking the news, finding entertainment and managing our social networks. Oh, and they also make calls...

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Y U Luv Texts, H8 Calls: We Want to Reach Others But Not to Be Interrupted

Oct 14, 2010Wall Street Journal

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Texting's rise over conversation is changing the way we interact, social scientists and researchers say. We default to text to relay difficult information. We stare at our phone when we want to avoid eye contact. Rather than make ...

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Adult texters catching up to teens

Sep 2, 2010CNN

CNN) -- Grown-ups don't text as much as teens -- at least not yet. A new survey suggests they may be catching up.

About 72 percent of adult mobile phone users send text messages with their phones, according to a report released Thursday...

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72 percent of adults are text-messaging now, study says

Sep 2, 2010msnbc.com

More American adults have taken to texting in the past year, but teens still take the crown when it comes to using their phones for text-messaging, with 87 percent of them doing so, according to a new study.

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"We’ve reac...

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