The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says teens are six times more likely to crash while dialing a cellphone and 23 times more likely to crash while texting. Reaction times become similar to those of a 70-year-old who drives without a cellphone. Parents have a new tool to fight this, but it works best for  [ Read More ]

Rebecca’s mother, Tricia Norman, said she had no idea that her daughter, who died this week, was being cyber-bullied by about 15 middle-school children, a problem that first arose and was addressed last year. Inside her phone’s virtual world, she had changed her user name on Kik Messenger, a cellphone application, to “That Dead Girl”  [ Read More ]