COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTV) – A bill banning the use of cell phones inside South Carolina prisons will become law on Tuesday afternoon, 14 years after the corrections officer it was named after was nearly killed. Gov. Henry McMaster will hold a ceremonial signing for the bill, which has been called the “Captain Robert Johnson Act.”…
Share ✓ Link copied to clipboard! Verizon users were reporting outages across the network Thursday, with the company confirming issues began earlier in the day. Reports on Down Detector surged between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET for the network, with New York City and Philadelphia among the largest affected areas. People in Los Angeles…
Japan is running out of mobile phone numbers and may soon roll out a new prefix for the first time in more than a decade. Numbers starting with 060 could be available as early as December, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Mobile phone numbers in Japan currently have 090, 080 and…
FILE – A Verizon retail location is shown in Willow Grove, Pa., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Verizon is buying Frontier Communications in a $20 billion deal that helps bolster its fiber network. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (Matt Rourke, Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) HOUSTON – Verizon customers, if you’re seeing an SOS…
New Delhi: Four men burgled a mobile shop in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Kunj on Tuesday. The owner claimed that he lost phones worth around Rs 26 lakh.The incident took place around 3:15am, and the owner, Vivek, claimed that in just four minutes, they took away 150-200 phones.In the CCTV footage that is making the rounds…
Xiaomi’s 15 flagship range won’t arrive in most of the world until early 2025. In the meantime, we get a midyear update to the 14 range in the shape of the 14T and 14T Pro, though neither bears much relation to the Xiaomi 14 or 14 Ultra. The Chinese manufacturer overtook Apple in August to…
Imagine this: You’re deep in a fierce struggle, seconds from victory, but your phone lags, and you lose the game. Frustrating, right? If you have ever gone through this, you are aware that the performance of a phone may either ruin or enhance your gaming experience. Whether you’re leisurely playing on your commute or jumping…
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – A new Michigan House bill would require school boards to implement a statewide policy restricting cell phone use in schools. It would break down the restrictions by age group. For kindergarten through fifth grade, cell phones would be banned. For sixth through eighth grade, phones could only be used before and…