India rail to consider selling tickets on cellphones From Reuters India NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian Railways will consider issuing tickets through mobile phones, the railways minister told parliament on Tuesday. India, the world's fastest growing mobile market, is set to have 500 million cellphone users by 2010, with an increasing number in rural areas, where ticketing offices are few and far between.

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Fertility study builds buzz around cellphones From USA Today Location, location, location makes a big difference, says British infertility specialist Iwan Lewis-Jones, who, like Agarwal, is conducting laboratory studies of cellphones' impact on sperm specimens. In research still ongoing, Agarwal says, he has found that sperm quality decreases in semen specimens left sitting next to a phone in talk mode for as little as an hour. "We are not saying that mobile phones affect fertility," he says. The only way to answer that question definitively, he says,...

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Technology for “stretchable” cellphones now on exhibit From ZDNet Morph, a nanotechnology based mobile phone concept that could lead to stretchable and flexible cell phones oh, say, seven years from now. "In the future however, the Finnish firm sees nanotechnology as one day leading to low cost manufacturing and the potential for integrating complex functionality at a low price," James adds.

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UConn Alert System Faulted From Hartford Courant STORRS - - Police are encouraging the University of Connecticut to find a new vendor to manage the college's emergency text-message alert system after an incident Saturday that underlined glitches in the current system. Police sent a text message through the emergency system to 16,000 students, staff, parents and others on Saturday after a mysterious hole was found in the ice on Swan Lake. Blicher said Sunday that police sent a message Saturday to inform the public of a 6-foot hole found in...

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Cell phones affect sperm count, study says From United Press International CLEVELAND, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- A Cleveland study on sperm counts among cell phone users suggests there is a link between the length of talk time and sperm count. Cleveland Clinic Foundation Director Ashok Agarwal and his research team found a correlation between the amount of time spent talking on a cellphone and a low sperm count, USA Today reported Monday.

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