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• Gadget ATM turns old phone into cash

  January 12, 2012 5:39 PM

  LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is all about the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other devices. But what about the old gadgets? Don't they get any love? Actually, one machine at the show is designed to help recycle gadgets, giving old phones... more »

• Defense, jail chief respond to recording allegations Play Video

  October 13, 2011 12:22 AM

  The question of attorney / client confidentially is at the heart of a dispute between former CSPD officer Joshua Carrier's attorney and the El Paso County Jail. It started when the DA's office requested copies of any phone calls made by Carrier in jail. As is standard, Carrier's attorney,... more »

• AT&T: Initial demand for iPhone 4S 'extraordinary'

  October 7, 2011 9:05 PM

  NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T Inc. says initial demand for the iPhone 4S has made it the most successful iPhone launch of the company has ever had. The telecommunications giant said Friday that it received more than 200,000 preorders for the iPhone 4S within the first 12 hours that the... more »

• Phone thief suspect sends friend request

  September 18, 2011 9:41 AM

  GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado man is accused of stealing a woman's cell phone and then sending her a friend request on Facebook. The Greeley Tribune reported Saturday that the victim awoke early one morning in her Greeley home to see a man standing over her bed. When... more »

• Phone service outage at Canon City Hospital

  September 1, 2011 2:46 PM

  St. Thomas More Hospital in Canon City is experiencing a major phone outage Thursday afternoon. All incoming callers are hearing a busy signal. The hospital's telecommunications team is working diligently to get the phone system fixed as soon as possible. It is unknown how long this outage will last. A... more »

• Verizon workers strike

  August 8, 2011 8:26 AM

  A union official says thousands of striking workers are joining picket lines and rallies at Verizon work locations from Massachusetts to Virginia. A Communications Workers of America spokesman Robert Master says about 75 workers showed up at Verizon's headquarters in Manhattan on Monday morning. He says picket lines... more »

• Man arrested for stealing phone company van

  May 12, 2011 3:01 PM

  The arrest of a suspect in a stolen vehicle case started with a tip from a caller in Pueblo County. Yesterday afternoon a caller told the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office a suspicious man was walking on Highway 78 west of Pueblo. Deputies found an abandoned Qwest van and... more »

• Register your cell phone for 9-1-1 emergency notification

  April 22, 2011 6:27 PM

  When there's an emergency in your neighborhood, like the one earlier this week in Monument, your home phone may ring with vital information. But what about your cell phone? You can get those calls on your mobile phone too, but you have to register. In El Paso and... more »

• Social Service phone service out today

  April 18, 2011 11:31 AM

  The telephone line at the Pueblo County Department of Social Services Family Service Center is not functioning and won't work all day today. The center is located at 805 Desert Flower and is open, but the phones at that location are not working. Citizens can call the main... more »

• AT&T offers free calls to Japan

  March 14, 2011 4:35 PM

  AT&T has announced free text and international long distance service to Japan through the end of the month for its wireless customers. Effective through March 31, AT&T wireless postpaid customers will not be charged for: International long distance usage from the United States and Puerto Rico to... more »

• Smartphone user spells "Android" to win competition

  February 15, 2011 5:53 PM

  Like a lot of teenagers 13-year old Adnan Syed has a smartphone. An Android in fact. So Tuesday afternoon at a school district spelling bee in Pueblo, Syed breezed through the final word of the competition. "Android, A-N-D-R-O-I-D, Android." With that word Syed became the champion of the 35th... more »

• Join a town hall meeting by phone next week

  December 2, 2010 3:15 PM

  Forty thousand people will be asked to join an electronic town hall meeting next Wednesday night to talk about transportation in the Pikes Peak region. The event will start around 6:45 p.m. with phone calls to a random sample of 40,000 residents. They will be invited to listen and... more »

• Pilot program looks to texts for student help

  October 18, 2010 6:41 PM

  There's no way around it, bullying is happening in our schools. But a new pilot program aims to put a stop to it one text message at a time. It's called Safe 2 Text and works just as Safe 2 Tell does. In addition to reporting a school threat via... more »

• Company demonstrates communications balloon

  September 29, 2010 6:06 PM

  Space Data Corporation showed off some interesting technology in Colorado Springs Wednesday. Workers inflated a balloon that carries radio gear into the sky. The technology, which has already been used in Afghanistan, allows people on the ground to bounce a signal off the balloon's repeater and allow easy communication... more »

• Inventor pledges $100,000 donation to Pueblo club

  September 29, 2010 1:40 PM

  A generous gift for the Boys & Girls club of Pueblo County. On Wednesday morning, a man who invented a cell phone cover announced he would donate $100,000 to the center. Jeff Valdez owns the company based out of Cripple Creek, which produces a cell phone cover called mySnark. The... more »

• Colorado DA plans to appeal ruling on police text search

  September 28, 2010 1:40 PM

  A judge's ruling that a police search of text messages on a lost iPhone was illegal could be challenged. Pitkin County Chief Deputy District Attorney Arnold Mordkin is preparing a challenge to the ruling that threw out most of the evidence in an alleged cocaine dealing case. The Aspen... more »

• Crushing obesity rates reported in 9 states

  August 4, 2010 11:21 AM

  Americans are more overweight than ever and may die sooner because of it according to the new report from the Centers for Disease Control. From 2007 to 2009 the number of states with more than a third of their population considered obese tripled from three states to nine. ... more »

• Phone book recycling now available in Pueblo

  July 23, 2010 6:50 PM

  Three organizations have joined together for a phone book recycling program in Pueblo. The Pueblo City-County Health Department, C&C Disposal, and Dex Directory TM are accepting old phonebooks until September 15, at six public drop-off sites located in the City and County. Drop off phone books at the following... more »

• iPhone sales brisk

  June 24, 2010 1:23 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Apple Inc.'s newest iPhone is seling briskly around the world. Thousands have been lining up outside stores to snag one -- amid concerns of supply shortages. Some stores -- including ones in Tokyo, Miami and San Francisco -- sold out within hours as the iPhone 4... more »

• Canon City 911 system down for much of the day

  April 8, 2010 12:12 AM

  Towns and cities across Southern Colorado struggled to deal with downed phone lines and Canon City's 911 system wasn't spared. "People could not get through to us." explains Capt. Allen Cooper with Canon City PD, "We had a major failure on our 911 system. It was essentially out around all... more »

• Victim assistance group give new life to old cell phones

  March 5, 2010 4:33 PM

  Pueblo's victim assistance organization, ACOVA has a use for cell phones beyond the recycling bin. The group provides working, but non-active cell phones, to victims of domestic violence. Cell phones can still call 911, even if they don't have active service. Cell phones may be dropped off at the... more »

• Google phone translates foreign text from photo

  February 16, 2010 2:12 PM

  Stumped by foreign languages when you're traveling? Google is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera. At a demonstration Tuesday at a cell phone trade show, an engineer shot a picture of a German dinner menu with a phone running Google's Android software. An application... more »

• Pueblo County reports 911 issues

  February 12, 2010 1:30 PM

  An electrical problem caused problems around 9:30 Friday morning at the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office Communications Center, which caused phones to stop working, including incoming 911 calls. Emergency calls were then routed to the Pueblo City Communications Center, a separate facility at the Pueblo Police Department. Citizens are asked... more »

• Apps call, but will your phone answer?

  January 9, 2010 12:32 PM

  The buzz at the International Consumer Electronics Show surrounding powerful new mobile phones and the rich programs that can run on them obscures a profound frustration for many users: They don't make that app for my phone. Mobile software executives and analysts said this week that the large... more »

• Security beefed up at Chicago school after beating

  September 28, 2009 1:29 PM

  Chicago police say they're bolstering security around a high school on the city's South Side after a student was beaten to death. But they are declining to give details on the security plan for Fenger High School. Family members believe Derrion Albert was beaten on his way from school on... more »

• Is your phone spying on you?

  September 17, 2009 12:04 PM

  Most of us carry one. Now the hand-held technology we all rely on is under attack by a flood of covert, internet software designed to use your cell phone against you. The cell phone hi-jacking websites, thousands of them, are easy to find and promise the user easy access... more »