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Teens new Syndrome Sleeptexting

In Health, lifestyle on February 13, 2013 at 20:12

 

Dating had been a problem , to handle it, it was accepted, thinking it is solved(people would say ”What problems?)

 

Then ‘Drugs’, partly solved , but Marijuana has been legalised with ingenious arguments>

Now comes “Sleep Texting

One has to learn to live with it, unless Teens understand that it is a problem;

Any way Psychiatrists will have a roaring business!

Sleep Texting

Sleep Texting

 

Teenagers are prolific texters. But now’s there’s evidence that they are even doing it in their sleep.

It’s called sleep texting.

“It’s just what you’d think it is, it’s texting while asleep,” says Elizabeth Dowdell, nursing professor at Villanova University, “It’s exactly what is sounds like, or really more between that, you know, that area between being asleep and being awake.”

 

“The phone will beep, they’ll answer the text,” Dowdell says. “They’ll either respond in words or gibberish. (It) can even be inappropriate. Ex-girlfriends contacting ex-boyfriends, saying ‘I miss you. I want to see you.’ The thing that happens, though, is that when they wake up, there’s no memory.”

Dowdell says teens should get eight, nine or ten hours of sleep a night.

“Overplugged and overextended teens and young adults tend to get less than that,” she says, “so this interrupts what could be a good night’s sleep, because they’re an hour-and-a-half or two hours into their sleep cycle, and they’re answering texts or the machines are beeping at them.”

Dowdell says sleep interruption can lead to obesity, depression, failing grades and more.

She says the answer is a technology-free bedroom, or, at the very least, putting the phone on the other side of the room, and turning off the ringer.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/02/11/local-expert-sleep-texting-is-growing-problem-among-teens/

 

Pakistan Suspends Mobile Services on Ramzan(EID)

In Pakistan on August 20, 2012 at 12:02

Cell phone bloked jpg

Mobile Service suspended.

Pakistan cities suffer a total black out of Cell Phones in major cities, under orders from the Federal Government fearing Terrorist Attack.

Seems to be feeling a pinch of their own medicine.

Story from The Dawn.

 Millions of people in the country, who were busy exchanging greetings through SMS, received a rude shock on the eve of Eidul Fitr when mobile phone service in some of the main cities was suspended on the direct orders of the federal government.

Mobile phones in Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Quetta and a number of other cities started to go silent from 8pm onwards, which was the peak period for most people to exchange Eid greetings.

In many areas of violence-prone Karachi panic gripped the denizens, particularly those whose families were out for last-minute shopping on ‘chand raat’. However, late in the evening the message started to spread around through television that the problem was not due to any malfunctioning or sabotage, but a result of the government’s counter-terrorism measure.

The suspension will continue during Eid prayer hours on Monday.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the action had been taken in view of security concerns of the governments of Punjab and Sindh.

Talking to newsmen, the minister said cellphone service would be suspended all over Punjab at the request of the provincial government.

“The Punjab government has requested us to suspend cellphone service in some parts of the province, but we think it should also made temporarily inoperative in sensitive areas of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh because terrorists usually use mobile phones in their acts of terrorism,” he said.

http://dawn.com/2012/08/20/malik-issues-eid-terror-alert-cellphones-go-silent-in-cities/

 

How to Change Mobile Operator-Procedure.

In consumer forum on November 9, 2011 at 07:29

The procedure.. 
1. Send an SMS to 1900 in the following format:
e.g. PORT 9123456789      
(Note: ‘PORT’ is not case sensitive and keep space between port and your number).
2. You will receive a reply which will contain a unique ‘porting code’.
3. Send this unique code to the mobile operator that you have selected, through an SMS. The number to which you have to send your text message can be obtained from an operator’s website.
Remember, again, this unique code is valid only for a few days (say, 15 to 30 days). You will have to send this SMS to your new operator at the earliest. 
4. Your existing operator will communicate with the new operator after checking if you have any outstanding amount. If your account has a clear balance, the existing operator will go ahead with the approval for the number porting.
5. The subscriber would also have to fill and submit the prescribed form for MNP to the new operator. The subscriber would have to submit documents (like photo ID and address proof) along with the MNP form to the new operator. Post-paid subscribers will have to submit a copy of their latest bill as well.
6. You will receive an SMS, which will provide the time and date for porting. According to TRAI, it is mandatory for both the existing and the fresh operators to complete the process for number portability within four days after the first SMS.
7. You will receive another SMS from the new operator, confirming the switch. Your mobile phone may remain ‘dead’ or without network coverage for about two hours while the porting takes place. But don’t worry—you will be able to go ‘live’ again with the new operator—and your old number.
8. Remember, you can change your operator only once in every 90 days. 

URGENT Notification from BSNL-On Terrorism.

In News on May 11, 2011 at 19:03

DOs  and  DON’Ts  IN MOBILE PHONE

Don’ts
  • Please do not click photographs with your mobile phones without permission from the people or authorities concerned. You may be  invading the privacy and possibly indulging in an illegal act.
  • Do not send obscene / pornographic text / images using SMS.
  • Do not send obscene / pornographic text / images using MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
  • Do not receive from or reply to SMS / MMS  of strangers.
  • Do not transmit obscene/ pornographic material, as it is an offence under Information Technology Act –2000 which carries a punishment of 5 years of  imprisonment and 1 lakh rupees fine.
  • Do not make calls to the unknown phone / mobile numbers you get while chatting or which are exhibited on various profiles on the Internet. If you do, you may be causing harassment to the other person.
  • Do not keep your Blue Tooth  open at all times-you may receive obscene / pornographic text, images and viruses.
  • Do not give your mobile numbers while chatting on INTERNET to avoid “STALKING”.
  • DO not handover your mobile phone to unauthorised service centres, to avoid CLONING.
  • It has been reported in the press that some unscrupulous elements may contact your mobile saying that they are from government agencies or Service Providers and request you to press #90 or #09.  It is reported that doing so would transfer control of your SIM to the caller.  SO DO NOT PRESS #90 or #09 when asked by unidentified persons.

  • DOs
    • Note down your IMEI number.
    • Security pin code should be used to avoid misuse of your mobile phones.
    • MMSs / SMSs  received should be checked for their source before opening.
    • Delete all obscene / pornographic text, images, SMS /MMS from your mobile phones which you might have received or stored. Otherwise this may land you in trouble and unwanted embarrassment.
    • Anti-virus software should be loaded in the mobile phone.
    • Mobile phone keypad should be locked after every use.
    • Use your mobile phone only when necessary .
    • http://www.chennai.bsnl.co.in/News/MobileDosNDonts.htm
  • Cell Phones-the silent killer.

    In Games on February 6, 2010 at 07:36

    Cell Phone ,silent killer.It has been suspected that electromagnetic radiation is harm ful to health,be it cell phones or micro wave ovens.We continue using them.This article is an eye opener.
    Story:
    In the debate over cell phones, there doesn’t appear to be any consensus on what, exactly, the harmful health effects on cell phone users may be. Unfortunately, the scary truth is that no one knows the full extent of problems caused by these must-have consumer electronics, because they’ve only become ubiquitous in recent years.

    Nevertheless, at least one group of people who has been using cell phones longer than the rest of us has started to draw some connections.

    In an extensive piece on cell phone health hazards in this month’s issue of GQ, a 35-year-old investment banker who five years ago was diagnosed with a brain tumor just behind his right ear — where he presses his phone — said that his industry has, “been using cell phones since 1992, back when they were the Gordon-Gekko-on-the-beach-kind-of-phone.” The banker said four or five colleagues at his firm also have similar tumors.

    Indeed, health experts say many often miss the fact that it can take anywhere from 10 to 30 years for brain tumors to develop from exposure to all kinds of electromagnetic radiation, including the kind from cell phones.
    http://www.alternet.org/health/145562/could_your_cell_phone_end_up_killing_you

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