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What’s the “right” age to give your kids their first cellphone? I’ve asked a lot of people that question over the past few weeks, both through our online survey and face-to-face, and the answers have been … well, surprising.
The bottom line is that there’s absolutely no consensus. Most people (29%) think 10-12 sounds like a [...]

There is a rather appalling hatchet-job of a supposedly ‘official’ document doing the rounds which sends a dire warning for all cellphone users. ‘Urgent Warning for From Cell C Vodacom & MTN’, it blares shrilly. In bright red text. That red text should get the alarm bells ringing, alright, to alert you not to a [...]

Why can’t you use your cellphone on an aeroplane? The short answer is because the captain prohibits it, and the captain’s word on an aeroplane – or any other vessel – is final. The long answer is a little more complex and isn’t quite black and white.
Google tells us that cellphones were first prohibited on [...]

Ah, popcorn. One of the great rewards of life; low fat, tasty and it goes great with movies. If you believe everything you can find on email or the Internet, you’ll also know that popcorn can apparently be popped by the terrific concentration of radiation which is emitted every time you use your cellphone!
That’s right, [...]

So here we are in a rather fabulously advanced age, replete with cellphones which are far more powerful and far more capable than the old Pentium IIs we used to brag about to our mates in the early days of the first millennium. There’s no question: these babies in our pockets are incredible (there is [...]