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Going green
211(me), a company that allows users to create personalized virtual business cards with digital photos, messages and links, said it is donating the advertising inventory on its paperless business cards exclusively to green causes. “Our mobile green business cards already offered users the chance to reduce printing costs and hassles while also helping the environment by saving paper,” said the company’s CEO, Robert DeFranco. “Now we are giving them the chance to do something even more. By promoting green causes on mobile through our product, we are giving our users an even greater sense of purpose, just by doing something they do every day – sharing their business contact information.” The first three rotating ads feature groups focused on carbon offsets, oceanic environmental advocacy and promoting recycled paper goods, said the company.
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Improper cellphone etiquette
An Austin, Texas, man was charged with disorderly conduct after he apparently refused to stop using his cellphone on a Southwest Airlines flight between Austin and Dallas. According to The Dallas Morning News, David Jones, president of Skyonic Corp., was asked repeatedly to hang up his cellphone but he strongly refused, swore at the flight attendants and continued using his phone for about 20 minutes. Police met the plane and cited Jones with a Class C misdemeanor, which carries a fine of up to $500. An associate of Jones’ told The Dallas Morning News that Jones refused to end his call because he had received information that a family member had become severely ill.
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Cellphone to the rescue
A Colorado Springs, Colo., woman who was abducted from a parking lot was rescued after calling for help on her cellphone. The woman was hit on the head with a brick, bound with tape and locked in the back of car. She used her cellphone to dial 911 when her abductor left the car. She didn’t know where she was, but she was able to describe her car and her surroundings, and police were able to determine her general location using the cellular tower that transmitted her call.