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A cellphone application that tells residents when the next bus is coming is the winner of a competition held by the Federal Communications Commission to help Americans access government services.

America's abandonment of the landline phone in favor of the cellphone is accelerating, but nowhere has it gone further than in Arkansas and Mississippi.

The states where the smallest proportion of people depend solely on wireless phones and no landlines: New Jersey and Rhode Island.

Mexico's anti-trust commission has hit billionaire Carlos Slim's cellphone subsidiary with a 12 billion peso ($1 billion) fine, parent company America Movil announced.

Not another cellphone, you say? Google presents the Nexus S, an Android not to be confused with the Nexus from a year ago.

With more than 28,000 commercial flights in the skies over the United States every day, there are probably few sentences in the English language that are spoken more often and insistently than this: "Please turn off all electronic devices." Asking why passengers must turn off their mobile phones on airplanes seems like an odd question.

Which is safer: technology that disables a cellphone in a moving car, or that makes the conversation completely hands-free?

The company hopes the new phone, called the Cliq, will reverse its plummeting cellphone sales.

Darlene Dukes struggled to speak as she called 911 from her cellphone. She could barely tell the operator her address: 602 Wales Drive.

Two major arbitration firms are backing away from the business of resolving disputes between customers and their credit-card and cellphone companies, throwing into disarray a controversial system that prevents unhappy consumers from filing lawsuits.

One of the few bright spots in the current economic gloom has been the telecommunications industry, where competition is robust, innovation forges ahead and consumer prices continue to fall.

Leave it to Congress and Beltway planners to mess with this success.