Although the older adults were no more likely to be struck by a (virtual) car, the findings nevertheless suggest that cell phones and other distractions pose a potential safety risk to older people, Neider says.

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And no matter what the Cell does to the broader computer-industry landscape, the virtual game-vistas it will conjure up are certain to look fantastic.

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There are apps for webinars and virtual events, managing and appending your database, pushing out messages to our cell phones, running online communities, finding out what people are saying about our brands in social media, marketing with video, online polls and surveys, finding the influencers in our markets, and even initiating direct mail campaigns.

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They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones.

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