R/GA, New York, has picked up the Wal-Mart digital account, per sources. R/GA bested fellow Interpublic Group shop MRM Worldwide, also in New York, in a review that the retail giant initiated late last year.

"Sexting" is the practice of taking a sexually revealing picture of yourself, typically from a cell phone, and send it to someone. Legal consequences aside, it's a dumb thing to do, especially the younger age groups in which it has become something of a fad.

Skype announces that Skype for iPhone will (finally) be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday. Luckily, we got a sneak peek, plenty of screenshots, and a full, hands-on review.

A year in the life of one mother and teenage son, told with pathos and humor. My daughter recently turned 14, so I opened Beth Harpaz’ book 13 is the New 18 with interest, looking for some thoughts and experiences that I could identify with. I wasn’t disappointed. This memoir, by an Associated Press journalist, is a story of the personal detour that her motherhood took when her oldest son ...

Connecticut is among several states turning to dogs to help them find cell phones smuggled into state prisons.

In Pennsylvania, authorities are threatening to prosecute three teenage girls after finding risque images of them on a cell phone. In Indiana, a middle-school boy faces obscenity charges for transmitting naked photos of himself to female classmates. And last week...

Here is a look at the top stories of local interest published in The Indiana Gazette during the week of March 22-28.

A lot has changed since Brittany Zimmermann was found slain in her Downtown Madison apartment a year ago Thursday. The 911 center that mishandled a call from Zimmermann's cell phone around the time she was killed has revamped its procedures, boosted its staff and hired a new director. Mandatory overtime has been reduced and other far-reaching reforms are on the horizon. But in the area that ...

Making contact with someone half a world away serving their country is the greatest gift one can receive, and it is the reason for the “Cell Phones for Soldiers” program, which provides free cell phones and minutes to families of soldiers.

San Mateo County stands to lose $46 million under the recently adopted state budget agreements and the figure may rise after the June revision of revenue estimates, according to County Manager David Boesch.