http://www.neowin.net/distraction/ Neowin News Feed for: Distraction en-us Neowin Ignition News editor@neowin.net developers@neowin.net 5 http://www.neowin.net/images/pegasus/icon.png http://www.neowin.net http://www.neowin.net/news/using-a-cell-phone-while-driving-injured-over-24000-people-in-09 <div style="float:left;margin-right:10px;"><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/news/logos/630383334ag_medium.jpg" alt="" /></div>Last year distractions caused 5,474, or 16% of all fatal crashes, in the United States. Out of that total, 995 of those distractions were contributed directly with cell phone use. Cell phones were also responsible... <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/using-a-cell-phone-while-driving-injured-over-24000-people-in-09">Read more...</a> Brandon Boyce Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:04:01 +0100 http://www.neowin.net/news/using-a-cell-phone-while-driving-injured-over-24000-people-in-09 http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/468258229_34211b8fb3.jpg http://www.neowin.net/news/too-much-technology-was-obama-right <div style="float:left;margin-right:10px;"><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/news/logos/780734842metroeditorial_medium.jpg" alt="" /></div>“And with iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment,... <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/too-much-technology-was-obama-right">Read more...</a> Tzvi Friedman Sun, 16 May 2010 06:32:26 +0100 http://www.neowin.net/news/too-much-technology-was-obama-right http://media.economist.com/images/20100227/201009SRC722.gif