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According to WebMD, new research suggests the dominant side of your brain may make the call on which ear you choose to use while talking on your cellphone.…

VentureBeat reports on nonprofit Cure.org, which raises money for children in need, and it’s experimenting with a suite of mobile apps to draw attention to the cause.…

The hottest space in mobile tech right now is messaging, with all the apps that let you skip past high-priced SMS and send texts for free (or very cheap). The Verge reports.…

Ginger.io, a smartphone app spun out of MIT’s Media Lab alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble. [via Technology Review]…

Pilots and air-traffic controllers texting each other? OMG! Your airline flight is finally starting to communicate the way the rest of the world does. The Wall Street Journal reports.…

Mobile phone providers in the Irish Republic could be asked to cut signals during the G8 summit being held in Northern Ireland amid fears terrorists may use them to detonate bombs.…

Samsung announces that it has developed a new mobile data transfer technology that's potentially up to "several hundred times" faster than current 4G networks.…

Even in death there is no escape from the familiar ping or ring of a mobile phone, with one in six people admitting to having made or received a call, texted, or used social media at a funeral. The Guardian reports.…

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile band together on the "It Can Wait" ad campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of sending text messages while behind the wheel. C/net reports.…

1stfone is a credit card-sized mobile device designed for children aged 4 to 9. [via PSFK]…

According to The Guardian, a mobile phone app originally built to help authorities in Pakistan hunt down disease-spreading mosquitoes was to be used extensively during Saturday's general election to deter cheating at the polls.…

Concerned about an increase in smartphone thefts, the New York State attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is trying to get the nation’s largest cellphone makers to do more to discourage the thefts.…

This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.” Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live-stream all the programming from ABC’s local stations there, the first time that any major…

Richard Hickman of Decipher Forensics found that it’s possible to pull Snapchat photos from Android phones simply by downloading data from the phone using forensics software.…

Pakistanis have voted in landmark election set to mark the first transfer of power between two elected civilian governments in its history. (BBC)…