By WALTER DAWKINS

PARK RIDGE -- Cellular phone provider Cingular Wireless is in discussions with the zoning board to add 12 antennas to a phone tower on the borough's east side.

The company's proposal calls for the extra antennas to be affixed to a 90-foot cell tower that sits on private property and is owned by rival cellular provider T-Mobile. The additions are designed to improve cellular phone service for residents, who have complained of the inability to use their phones in various parts of the community, said Cingular attorney Judy Babinski.

Neighbor worried about safety
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/19/06
BY LARRY HIGGS
COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU

FAIR HAVEN — Thomas Kirman of Fisk Street doesn't like his new neighbor-to-be.

Kirman is worried that the new potential neighbor will be too big, too close and too . . . electromagnetic.

Neighbors protest Cingular proposal
By Cortney Fielding Staff Writer

PASADENA - A cell phone tower proposed behind a hilltop Christian cross has passions running high in southwest Pasadena and Highland Park.

Residents living near the San Rafael-area hilltop have banded together in opposition to a plan by Cingular Wireless and Hillsides, the home for children who have been abused or are at risk, which has agreed to rent land to the cellular company.

You have more choices for lighting up at home than Edison's same old same old; here they are

By Mary Beth Breckenridge

Even Thomas Edison would scratch his head over the choices in a typical home center's light bulb aisle.

The array seems endless -- compact fluorescent and incandescent, clear and frosted, Edison base and candelabra, round and funnel-shaped.

So many options, so little information.

We're here to help you sort out the myriad bulbs out there. For simplicity's sake, we'll stick to general-service bulbs (also called Edison-base bulbs), the screw-in types that fit most lamps and light fixtures in a typical home. That's where most of the decision-making comes in, anyway, because most other fixtures require highly specific bulbs.

By Leora Eren Frucht   August 20, 2006

Cellphones can already take photos, surf the Net, and even measure heart rate.

But how about using cellphone signals to measure rainfall?

A Tel Aviv University researcher recently showed that, yes, mobile phone signals can be used to measure rainfall more accurately than current meteorological methods and, that, in turn could improve weather forecasting.