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Friday, April 26, 2013  Missouri motorists could soon have a new alternative to the traditional paper car insurance cards.

Monday, April 15, 2013  Michigan judge holds self in contempt, pays $25 fine after his smartphone disrupts hearing

Friday, April 05, 2013  Facebook barges into Google's Android smartphone turf with Home application

Tuesday, March 12, 2013  The Economic Development Administration gave Brewer Science a $1 million grant to support the new facility which will produce specialty materials for micro-devices for electronics.

Monday, January 28, 2013  Smartphones, tablets and apps can simplify the tax completion process.

Thursday, December 13, 2012  Got a question or tip about crime in southwest Missouri? Now there's an app for that.

Friday, December 23, 2011  Missouri motorists can get updates about road conditions through their smartphones.

Monday, October 31, 2011  Usually, large samples of tissue are needed to analyze for cancer, but the new miniature nuclear magnetic resonance machine (NMR) can detect and screen cancer cells from a microscopic tissue sample.

Thursday, July 28, 2011  Most people depend on their cell phone for almost everything these days. But what if your cell phone was hacked and all your important information was stolen?

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Thursday, May 12, 2011  There is growing concerns about how much personal information smartphones can retain.

Saturday, April 23, 2011  Drivers are feeling the pain at the pump and want to know where the cheapest place is to buy gas.

Friday, April 01, 2011  There seems to be a smartphone application for pretty much anything and everything, but one group of apps has four U.S. Senators up in arms.

Tuesday, August 03, 2010  The first BlackBerry that combines a touch screen with the device's signature full-alphabet keyboard is coming to AT&T stores next week.

Thursday, July 29, 2010  Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and other smartphones. It found that many of them secretly pull sensitive data off users' phones and ship them off to third parties without notification.