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First Bytes Self Control For Your Cell

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Dec 23 2008 10:42am EDT

First Bytes: Self-Control for Your Cell

As a safety measure, someone has found a way to deactivate text-messaging on Google's Android mobile phones whenever they're in a moving car. [TechCrunch]

A Fry's Electronics executive accused of $65 million fraud against the retailer to pay off his personal gambling debts. [San Jose Mercury News]

Bono Calling: Elevation Partners pumps another $100 million into Palm. [TechCrunch]

Unisys cutting 1,300 jobs, freezing salaries, ending 401(k) matches [San Jose Business Journal]

Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, is weighing whether to run for the office of Attorney General in California. [TechCrunch]

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