Maryland and Virginia are both on their way to beefing up laws governing the use of cell phones by motorists, and may soon join D.C. in creating an entire region where using a phone while driving is reason enough for a police officer to pull you over.

You can be your own cabbie with SideCar, a new ride-sharing app set to arrive in D.C. today.

A new taxicab-hailing app arrives in D.C. today, making the old school hand-in-the-air hail a thing of the past.

Most everyone has a smart phone these days, and plenty of people aren’t discrete about using them out in the open. But for D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, every smart phone user is a potential victim, and today she joined Mayor Vince Gray in warning of a citywide uptick in robberies and thefts of phones and other electronic gadgets.