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Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving 452

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @11:07PM from the hang-up-and-drive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Canadian company Aegis Mobility has developed software that detects if a cell phone is moving at 'car' speeds. If so, the software, DriveAssistT, will alert the cellular network, telling it to hold calls and text messages until the drive is over. Calls are not blocked entirely; callers will be notified that the person appears to be driving, but they can still leave an emergency voice mail, which will be sent through immediately."

Comment They don't keep the electronics? (Score 0, Offtopic) 630

by fedders on Thursday February 07, 2008 @12:54PM (#22335350) Attached to: U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border

So, you illegally try to enter the country and we give you back all your stuff? Maybe it would be a dis-incentive if the computers and iPods were kept rather than just copied. And I'm only half-kidding.

Submission + - Jobs Says People Don't Want to 'Rent' Music

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday April 27, 2007 @12:56PM

eldavojohn writes: "PhysOrg is running a piece on a recent speech by Apple CEO Steve Jobs about DRM free music. While we know that Jobs is a self proclaimed proponent of DRM free music who's not all talk, he's now said that "by the end of this year, over half of the songs we offer on iTunes we believe will be in DRM-free versions. I think we're going to achieve that." Jobs pointed out what's obvious to us, the consumers, but isn't obvious to the music industry — "People want to own their music." He also dismissed subscription based music as a failure & claimed a lot of other music labels are intrigued by the EMI deal. There's no doubt in my mind that everyone will be watching EMI's cash flow very carefully with the utmost scrutiny in these coming quarters. If he succeeds in his crusade, I may find myself finally purchasing music on digital non-compact disc based media."

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