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• Could you participate in National Unplugged Day?

  March 2, 2013 5:36 PM

  Technology is a major part of our lives in today's world, so, do you think you'd be able to ignore your cell phone or turn away from Facebook for an entire day? That was just the idea behind National Unplugged Day, which began yesterday at sundown and runs until sundown... more »

• Law enforcement cracking down on distracted drivers Play Video

  March 29, 2012 9:53 PM

  Statistics out from the National Highway Safety Administration show distracted drivers are a growing problem on the roads. More than 6,000 people die each year from crashes involving distractions behind the wheel; whether it's a cell phone, a navigation device, or an iPod, electronics are taking eyes off the... more »

• AT&T: Initial demand for iPhone 4S 'extraordinary'

  October 7, 2011 9:05 PM

  NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T Inc. says initial demand for the iPhone 4S has made it the most successful iPhone launch of the company has ever had. The telecommunications giant said Friday that it received more than 200,000 preorders for the iPhone 4S within the first 12 hours that the... more »

• Phone thief suspect sends victim a friend request

  September 17, 2011 2:17 PM

  GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado man is accused of stealing a woman's cell phone and then sending her a friend request on Facebook. The Greeley Tribune reported Saturday that the victim awoke early one morning in her Greeley home to see a man standing over her bed. When... more »

• Cell phone in woman's pocket stops bullet

  August 27, 2011 12:27 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A cell phone in the back pocket of a Colorado Springs woman's pants appears to have stopped a bullet. Police say that a shooting Friday night in a Colorado Springs apartment complex did not hurt anyone - but a woman said her phone was... more »

• Smartphone user spells "Android" to win competition

  February 15, 2011 5:53 PM

  Like a lot of teenagers 13-year old Adnan Syed has a smartphone. An Android in fact. So Tuesday afternoon at a school district spelling bee in Pueblo, Syed breezed through the final word of the competition. "Android, A-N-D-R-O-I-D, Android." With that word Syed became the champion of the 35th... more »

• Inventor pledges $100,000 donation to Pueblo club

  September 29, 2010 1:40 PM

  A generous gift for the Boys & Girls club of Pueblo County. On Wednesday morning, a man who invented a cell phone cover announced he would donate $100,000 to the center. Jeff Valdez owns the company based out of Cripple Creek, which produces a cell phone cover called mySnark. The... more »

• Dutch arrest 2 men after flight from US

  August 31, 2010 8:21 AM

  A cell phone taped to a Pepto Bismol bottle, and a knife and boxcutter. Those are the 'suspicious' items found in the checked luggage of two men who flew aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Amsterdam. One man went through security in Birmingham, Ala., on his way... more »

• Dozens of rescuers aid snowboarders in avalanche

  May 3, 2010 11:25 AM

  Dozens of volunteers and an Army helicopter rescued two snowboarders caught in an avalanche on Tenmile Peak. Officials say the two men were skiing down a backcountry slope Saturday when they triggered the slide. One of them injured his leg, but they were able to use a cell... more »

• Victim assistance group give new life to old cell phones

  March 5, 2010 4:33 PM

  Pueblo's victim assistance organization, ACOVA has a use for cell phones beyond the recycling bin. The group provides working, but non-active cell phones, to victims of domestic violence. Cell phones can still call 911, even if they don't have active service. Cell phones may be dropped off at the... more »

• Poor but networked: UN says cell phone use surging

  February 23, 2010 11:18 AM

  A new U.N. report says more than half of the people in the developing world are now cell phone subscribers. The world body's International Telecommunication Union says there were an estimated 4.6 billion mobile phone subscriptions at the end of last year, compared with about 1 billion in 2002. Internet... more »

• Utah cops to quiz man again over missing wife

  December 14, 2009 10:28 AM

  Utah police plan a second interview with the husband of a woman who went missing a week ago without taking her purse or cell phone. Susan Powell, 28, the mother of two young children, was reported missing Dec. 6 from a Salt Lake City suburb in a case that... more »

• Cell phone wedding in Colorado Springs

  December 8, 2009 12:30 PM

  Here's a couple that knows how to roll with the punches-- Ruth Ann and Pete Kronberg were set to get married in Colorado Springs Sunday. Their pastor was in a car accident--he's OK, but couldn't make it to the ceremony. So the pastor was put on speaker on the... more »

• Security camera shows explosion at gas pump

  December 7, 2009 1:28 PM

  Mark Toy was pulling out of the Convenient Food Mart in Versailles, Kentucky Sunday evening when something unusual caught his eye. "I looked over my left shoulder, and there's a gas pump on fire, and it's getting pretty involved really quickly," said Toy. Surveillance video from the gas... more »

• Man rescues phone from dump by listening for ring

  November 1, 2009 9:42 AM

  A determined Colorado man found his missing cell phone at a trash dump after dialing the number from his girlfriend's phone and listening for the ring. Billy Boyd says he dropped the phone while raking his yard outside Aspen Tuesday and unknowingly scooped it into a bag of leaves. He... more »

• Is your phone spying on you?

  September 17, 2009 12:04 PM

  Most of us carry one. Now the hand-held technology we all rely on is under attack by a flood of covert, internet software designed to use your cell phone against you. The cell phone hi-jacking websites, thousands of them, are easy to find and promise the user easy access... more »