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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

Tuesday, August 28, 2012  The South Carolina Highway Patrol says it has made an arrest in the hit-and-run accident that sent four Summerville area children to the hospital over the weekend.

Monday, August 27, 2012  Three children remain in the intensive care unit of the Medical University of South Carolina hospital in Charleston following a weekend hit-and-run in Summerville.

Wednesday, November 09, 2011  There's an app for pretty much everything these days, but there are also apps out there, meant to keep you safe.

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.