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Monday, April 15, 2013  Michigan judge holds self in contempt, pays $25 fine after his smartphone disrupts hearing

Friday, April 05, 2013  Facebook barges into Google's Android smartphone turf with Home application

Friday, January 06, 2012  For our Facebook Story of the Day on January 6, it just makes sense that you'd want to protect yourself from your smart phone!

Friday, July 08, 2011  One of our viewers let us know that he had developed a tool to help stop texting and driving.

Thursday, July 29, 2010  Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and other smartphones. It found that many of them secretly pull sensitive data off users' phones and ship them off to third parties without notification.

Friday, July 16, 2010  Apple Inc. will give free protective cases to buyers of its latest iPhone to alleviate the so-called "death grip" problem in which holding the phone with a bare hand can muffle the wireless signal.

Thursday, July 15, 2010  Apple says it will hold a press conference on Friday to discuss the latest iPhone model, which has been beset by complaints about its antenna.

Monday, July 12, 2010  Consumer Reports says the iPhone 4 has reception problems caused by its antenna design. After the iPhone 4 went on sale in June, buyers started complaining that holding the gadget a certain way could cause calls to drop.

Friday, June 25, 2010  Some early buyers posted messages on Apple's customer support website, complaining that gripping the gadget in ways that covered small black lines in the steel band could cause the number of "bars" to plummet.

Thursday, June 24, 2010  From Tokyo to San Francisco, some stores started selling out of Apple's newest iPhone just hours after it went on sale. Some would-be buyers walked away disappointed; tensions grew at Apple stores that hadn't run out.