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Genius kids use caller-ID spoofing to mess with 911

Genius kids use caller-ID spoofing to mess with 911

Many have heard of “swatting” it is commonly associated with fairly harmless pranks.  However, it can go in different directions besides the harmless pranks.  There are perfectly innocent legitimate uses for swatting.  At the same time though, there are pranks that take things way too far.  One genius known as “Little Hacker” has been telephone [...]

GPS helps mommy keep tabs on her adult son

GPS helps mommy keep tabs on her adult son

Alright, so he is still a teenager, 19 to be exact, but still old enough to be out of the house.  He pops the GPS unit into his pocket and she can find him within a 15 foot radius while he travels.  It even sends her a text message if he ends up someplace he [...]

Parents utilizing cellphones as parenting tools

Parents utilizing cellphones as parenting tools

It’s no news flash that babies and toddlers seem to love cellphones.  Probably because they can grasp them firmly in their hand and easily jam them into their mouths.  I’ve had my niece snatch away mine on numerous occasions only to attempt to use it to gnaw on while she was teething.  Well apparently USA [...]

Inmate sentenced 60 extra years for having cellphone

Inmate sentenced 60 extra years for having cellphone

If you’re reading this from Texas and in jail, on an iPhone you managed to smuggle in, you might want to ditch the phone quickly.  One inmate managed to land himself an extra 60 years after being found with a cellphone on him.  The Anderson County inmate looked a little suspicious to correctional officers, so [...]

Women are more tech savvy than they realize

Women are more tech savvy than they realize

Women’s role in technology is one that has been analyzed time and again from several different angles.  It’s true that not enough women are within the technology fields, but as this new study shows, women are not less tech savvy than men.  They asked both sexes if they felt that they were extremely tech savvy.  [...]

Police locate drunken man using a GPS chip

Police locate drunken man using a GPS chip

As many have discovered GPS has many useful perks.  Your GPS in your car can take you down all kinds of strange places if you’re ignorant enough to listen to it blindly.  Another nice perk is the chip in your cellphone allows for the police to find you in the event of an emergency.  It’s [...]

Kid learns the hard way no good deed goes unpunished

Kid learns the hard way no good deed goes unpunished

So let’s say you are out for your 18th birthday and you stumble across a cellphone left on the sidewalk.  Do you pick it up and find a way to return it or just leave it there and pretend you didn’t see it?  Well apparently those of you that would leave it are the smart [...]

GPS strikes again and man almost drives off cliff

GPS strikes again and man almost drives off cliff

Technology is doing exactly what all of us have, at least on occasion, dreamed of doing.  That is, wiping out all the idiots in the world.  Yes, medical technology has allowed for us to live longer, but GPS is here to even out the numbers a bit.  Well, at the very least boot the geniuses [...]