Last week, I was in San Francisco attending Deutsche Bank’s 2010 Technology Conference (September 14-16).  The following post is a high-level summary of my key takeaways, intended to inform you of key industry themes and changes within a brief reading (rather than a lengthy detailed vendor-by-vendor report). 

Barring a dramatic reversal, San Francisco is set to become the first U.S. city to require retailers to display notices about the radiation levels produced by the cellphones they sell.

On Tuesday, the city's board of supervisors voted 10 to 1 in favor of a law requiring that a phone's specific absorption rate, or SAR, be posted in stores. The Federal Communications Commission, which already makes that information available here, requires that phones have an SAR of less than 1.6 watts per kilogram.