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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Verizon Wireless is sponsoring special HopeLine phone collections across the nation where consumers can learn more about the epidemic of domestic violence; and donate their old wireless phones to the company's long-running and exclusive HopeLine program to help victims.

The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) is launching its third annual fall HopeLine phone collection drive at chapter locations nationwide. Visit the NOBLE Web site to find out if there is a chapter in your community.

From Oct. 6 through Oct. 29, while supplies last, customers who purchase the Nokia 7705 Twist online fro Verizon will receive a free picture frame phone lanyard to raise awareness of HopeLine and support domestic violence prevention.

Those who purchase the Nokia Shade from Verizon with a camera online will receive a free picture frame phone lanyard and a purple Nokia Xpress-on Cover while supplies last.When you order online, you free overnight shipping 

According to Nielsen, mobile video viewing continued its upward trend, with over 15 million Americans reporting watching mobile video in Q2 2009. This is an increase of 70% versus last year - the largest annual growth to date.

Furthermore, Nielsen notes Americans are increasing their overall media consumption, and media multi-tasking is part of the equation, according to new data from The Nielsen Company's most recent Three Screen Report.

The results of the Vlingo Consumer Mobile Messaging Habits Report are down right dangerous.

Despite Driving While Texting (DWT) bans in seven states and the District of Columbia as well as reports of accidents caused by DWT, 26% of mobile phone users continue to text behind the wheel.

Drivers in Tennessee are the worst offenders, with the highest percentage of respondents(42%) who admit to DWT, while Arizona has the lowest percentage (18.8%).

The Vlingo Report also reveals that text messaging has grown steadily over the past 12 months across all age groups, with nearly 60% of mobile phone users now texting, compared to 54% in 2008.

Greenpeace wants you to choose your toilet tissue wisely and there's an app for that.

The Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide makes it easy to find out which brands of facial tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, and napkins are truly green and which should be avoided.

Greenpeace carefully evaluated over 100 brands and recommended those that: contain 100% overall recycled content; contain at least 50% post-consumer recycled content; and are bleached without toxic chlorine compounds.

While grocery shopping or just stopping by the corner store to grab a roll of toilet paper, users can make informed decision as both a consumer and someone concerned about the world's ancient forests.

The Greenpeace new iPhone app brings the Guide directly to iPhone or iPod touch. It is also available on Android phones, just search for it in Android Apps. If you don't have an iPhone or an Android you can view the mobile web (WAP) version here: 3rdwhale.com/greenpeace/wap

Greenpeace also recommends using reusable cloth hankies instead of facial tissues as using handkerchiefs further reduces our impact on ancient forests.

For Earth Day, carriers and cell phone recyclers ares encouraging people to recycle their cell phones. Recycling is important because cell phones contain toxic chemicals. 

We have listed the top best places to recycle your cell phone.  If your cell phone or smartphone is fairly new, you may be able to sell it on eBay. There are also companies that buy your used cell phone.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, only 10 percent of all cell phones that are discarded are actually recycled. ReCellular, estimates that recycling 2.5 million phones has prevented more than 153 tons of e-waste from entering landfills, the environmental equivalent of:

• Saving enough energy to power nearly 7,709 U.S. households for a year.
• Avoiding the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as removing more than 5,546 passenger cars from the roads for a year.
• And keeping more than 4 tons of toxic materials out of landfills.

• You can sell used cell phones to iBuyPhones.com for cash, or recycle qualifying phones. In conjunction with a partnership with American Forests, they will plant a tree for every recycled phone received. Currently, they pay $75 for an original iPhone and $200 for an iPhone 3G 16 GB. A BlackBerry Storm gets $150 while a BlackBerry Bold goes for $125.
  
• Recellular will only buy cell phones in lots of ten or more. However you can at www.recellulartradein.com get BestBuy Digital Dollars for your old phone.
• Go to www.sprint.com/recycle or go to any Sprint-owned retail stores nationwide to return eligible Sprint or Nextel devices for account credits with Sprint Buyback.

A recent Sprint survey examining consumers' mobile phone recycling habits found that nine out of 10 surveyed own at least one and as many as five old, unused mobile phones.

To encourage consumers to recycle their unused wireless devices, Sprint offers two free and easy programs: Sprint Buyback and Sprint Project Connect

• Sprint customers can participate in the Sprint Buyback program by going to www.sprint.com/recycle or going to any Sprint-owned retail stores nationwide. The wireless device recovery effort allows customers to return eligible Sprint or Nextel devices for account credits.
• Anyone can recycle with Sprint Project Connect. The program accepts all wireless phones, batteries, accessories and data cards, regardless of carrier or condition. Free postage-paid envelopes are available at any Sprint-owned retail store, and come in the box with most new phones sold by Sprint.
  

As the wireless industry celebrates the upcoming 25^th anniversary of the first commercial cell phone call (October 13, 1983), this in-depth online study of more than 2,000 teenagers around the nation sheds new light on how today's teens feel about wireless products and services, how they are using them today and most importantly, how they would like to use them in the future. A growing wireless segment, teens view their cell phones as more than just an accessory.

Highlights of the study include:

• Teens consider cell phones an indication of status
• 4 out 5 teens use a cell phone.
• 80% say cell phones provide a sense of security.
• Many prefer texting over talking.
• They would also like their phones to be water and shock proof.
  

ReCellular, cell-phone recycling firm, announced today that Investor Growth Capital is investing $15 million in a Series A Preferred Stock financing. The investment adds a growing clean-tech company to IGC's portfolio, and will enable ReCellular to handsets.

ReCellular's revenues have increased an average of 25 percent for the past eight years. Today, the company is the leading collector, recycler and refurbisher of cell phones in the world.  In 2008, the company is on track to process more than 6 million phones - equal to the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, and Rhode Island.

With an estimated 3.3 billion cell-phone users worldwide, and 130 million phones retired in the U.S. every year, there isan  opportunity for significant growth in the global cell-phone reuse and recycling market.

"We processed almost 5,000 phones in our first year of business," says Newman. "Today, we get an average of 24,000 phones - enough to fill seven mail trucks - every day, five days a week. With the support and resources of IGC, we see the potential to double the number of mail trucks delivering to ReCellular in the very near future."

Consumer Cellular has innovative cell phone recycling program that has already kept 10,000 cell phones out of landfills and raised more than $8,000 for Portland, Ore.-based Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation.

As reported by CTIA, an estimated 150 million cell phones are retired in the U.S. every year but less than 10 percent of idled phones are recycled. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) reports that 75 percent of Americans are unaware of cell-phone recycling options.

With every mobile phone sold, Consumer Cellular includes a postage-paid envelope so customers can recycle their old cell phone, regardless of if the phone still works. Consumer Cellular’s award-winning recycling partner, ReCellular, refurbishes and resells the usable cell phones, making wireless communication more accessible to more people. Phones that no longer function are recycled according to strict environmental standards and the salvaged materials are used to make other products.

 
Three out of every four people added that they don't even think about recycling their devices and nearly half were unaware that it is even possible to do so.

The survey was based on interviews with 6,500 people in 13 countries including Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden, UK, United Arab Emirates, USA, Nigeria, India, China, Indonesia and Brazil.

People on average have each owned around five phones, very few of these are being recycled once they are no longer used.  Yet very few old devices, 4%, are being thrown into landfill. Instead the majority, 44%, are simply being kept at homes never used.  Others are giving their mobiles another life in different ways, one quarter are passing on their old phones to friends or family, and 16% of people are selling their used devices particularly in emerging markets.

BlackBerry’s and iPhones are the major contenders in the smartphone market and ChangeWave Research is trying to figure out why they are liked and disliked. ChangeWave  looked at the features users love and hate about their iPhones and BlackBerrys as part of their March 2008 survey of 864 smartphone owners.iPhone users loved the Web/iPod functionality of the phone while BlackBerry users loved their push email. iPhone users hated EDGE speeds and BlackBerry users disliked their Internet browsing.

The Apple iPhone

By far the most lauded feature of the iPhone among owners is its seamless integration of a Phone, iPod and Internet browser (36%). One respondent puts it, “The feature I use most is the iPod, but it’s the integrated whole that makes it so much fun to use. “

Another respondent adds, “I love the iPhone. It is revolutionary. I love being able to jump on the Internet, send email, get maps, weather forecasts, instant message, and make phone calls.”

The second most popular feature is the iPhone’s touch screen interface, followed by its ease of use.

This holiday season, many consumers rang in the holidays with new wireless phones,. Rather than throwing old phones into a drawer or into the trash, Verizon Wireless reminds consumers to donate their no-longer-used wireless phones to the company’s HopeLinephone recycling program to support victims of domestic violence.

HopeLine collects no-longer-used wireless phones, batteries and accessories in any condition, from any wireless service provider, at the company’s Communications Stores across the country. Phones that can be refurbished are sold for reuse and those without value are disposed of in an environmentally sound way. Proceeds from the HopeLine program are used to provide wireless phones and cash grants to local shelters and other non-profit organizations that focus on domestic violence prevention and awareness.