Some of the world’s largest mobile phone companies are facing billion-pound lawsuits brought by brain tumour victims. The biggest ever legal assault on the industry will seek to prove that handsets can cause cancer and that firms have deliberately covered up crucial medical information. If the American action is successful, mobile phone companies will face…
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Disclaimer: Below is a selection of newspaper articles that have appeared in the press internationally. Some have sensational headlines but bear in mind that the public has been endlessly subjected to similar headlines on the other side of the argument.
For example, this headline which appeared worldwide last year No Link Between Cell Towers, Kids’ Cancer Risk. On a closer read you’ll see that this strong assertion was based on a case study analyzing 1,397 cancer cases in UK children below the age of 4 in the period 1999-2001 but many people don’t get that far.
Please bear this in mind when reviewing as the articles are intended to provide information rather than hype.
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Wireless Could Cause Cancer
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Cape Town – An American scientist has warned that children and pregnant women should avoid using cellphones, cordless phones, tablets and smartphones that use wi-fi as such devices expose them to wireless radiation that could cause cancer. Dr Devra Davis, an environmental health researcher and head of the US-based Environmental Health Trust said not only…
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Hands off mobile, GSMA body warns
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Hands off mobile, GSMA body warns Government officials and policy makers in Africa should resist the temptation to levy the mobile industry because it limits growth on the continent, an industry body has said. “Our objective is to see that those who need the access the most are connected,” Paul Lyons GSMA director for spectrum…
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The ‘iDevice’ nightmare facing corporate IT shops
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Employees bringing their own gadgets, from smartphones to tablet computers, into the companies they work for and expecting them to function seamlessly with corporate technology systems is proving to be a significant and growing challenge for IT departments. Warren Johnson, account technology specialist at Microsoft, says IT departments are struggling to figure out how to…
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Film-maker Uncovers Blood in Mobile
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Frank Poulsen’s eye-opening new documentary exposes a link between the war in DR Congo and our mobile phones. We all love our mobile phones, and the smarter they get, the more we want them. There is, though, a dark side to this affair. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, our demand for phones has been…
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Cellphone Tower Voting Poll
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Online poll of Capetonians perceptions about cellphone towers:5% : cellphone towers are harmless 90% : are a serious health risk 5% : the jury is out results as at 11 Oct 2011 based on 42 responses
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Cellphone Retailers To Warn Customers
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Mobile phone companies are fighting back after San Francisco passed new requirements for cellphone retailers to warn customers about limiting their exposure to radiation.Among the requirements that kick in this week, stores will have to display “informational posters” explaining that cellphones emit radio frequency energy that’s absorbed by the head and body. The posters will…
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Evidence Shows Link To Brain Tumours
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Women are switching off their mobile phones in droves amid fears they are harming their health, a new study reveals. The study, one month after World Health Organisation experts warned of a link between mobile phone use and brain tumours, found one in four Australian women have cut back on their talk time. Australia’s Biggest…
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Tread Carefully on Cell Mast Radiation Exposure
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The reality which faces us all is that with the rapid uptake and deployment of wireless communication technology in the last few years radiation exposure levels have increased significantly. Society now has a host of innovation including iPads and 3G phones with internet access used to download movies, photos, movies, emails, books. In the not…
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‘Wi-fi refugees’ in West Virginia Mountains
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Dozens of Americans who claim to have been made ill by wi-fi and mobile phones have flocked to the town of Green Bank, West Virginia There are five billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide and advances in wireless technology make it increasingly difficult to escape the influence of mobile devices. But while most Americans seem to…