Cell Phone Theft Map Shows Bay Area Hot Spots

When it comes to GT-I9300 cell phone thefts, there are people out there who aren't doing their fair share of prevention, according to San Francisco's top law enforcement officials.A map of the areas most rife with cell phone thefts was published by InfoWorld.com. Check and see how your area ranks here.

It's the cell phone companies themselves, according to San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who suggests that the companies' bottom line is aided by device thefts, the San Francisco Examiner reported.

"I get this thing stolen and now I’ve got to buy another one,” Gascón told the newspaper. The telecommunications industry is not "doing everything they can" to stop the thefts, he said. Instead, they're “making a ton of money,” he told the newspaper.

Half of San Francisco's robberies now involve the theft of an iPhone, Android or other device, the newspaper reported. There were 3,190 A7100 robberies in San Francisco in the most-recent year, according to the newspaper's Mike Aldax. A simple solution would be to have technology that disables a phone that is reported stolen. To date, there is a national registry that allows users to report the theft of their phone. A new study says you can add a commonplace activity to the list of things that raise blood pressure: talking on a cell phone.

According to ScienceDaily, findings of a study presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hypertension suggest that mobile phone calls could be the cause of a rise in blood pressure. Other findings from the meeting conclude that practicing yoga might lower it, while individuals suffering from hypertension could have an elevated desire for foods on the salty side even though they need to cut back on sodium.xcTFR5DS

Researchers from Italy's Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital found that subjects' blood pressure readings jumped to 129/82 from 121/77 while they were on best cell phone deals calls. For those who were involved in more than 30 calls each day, the rise in systolic (the top number) blood pressure was less dramatic, however.

The scientists did not identify cause and effect and merely speculated that those who made so many calls were apt to be younger patients used to telephone intrusions. They also cited the possibility that someone who makes more than 30 calls feels reassured by the knowledge that the phone is working and that missed calls are unlikely.