Cellular Phone News
- DALLAS — A recession doesn’t Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 2:08AMDALLAS — A recession doesn’t mean the death of innovation in the consumer tech industry. Consider 2001. During that recession, Apple Inc. introduced the iPod, Microsoft Corp. rolled out its original Xbox video game console, broadband household penetration rates in the U.S. more than doubled from 2000, and Google Inc. was becoming an integral part of modern life. The pace of innovation isn’t ...
- First Light Net Announces Acquisition of Domain Name Fishing.Mobi Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 2:01AMFirst Light Net (FirstLightNet.Com) Online Advertising Network announces acquisition and January 2009 launch of Fishing.mobi mobile phone web site [PR.com - January 04, 2009]
- Man facing bias charges over dispute with landlord Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 12:45AMA Vernon man has been charged with writing racially offensive letters and threatening his former landlord.
- Man frets over brothers in Gaza Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 12:41AMGIRARD - Mousa Kassis has two brothers in a war zone, and while he talks to one daily, he has not been able to reach the other. Kassis, who came to America from the Middle East 31 years ago, was watching television coverage of the Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip from his Girard home Saturday afternoon, something he says he now does 24-7.
- “911 Central Dispatch, What’s Your Emergency?” Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 12:27AMTechnology, and the immediacy it provides, has transformed practically every aspect of emergency dispatching – including the stress of those who work it.
- U.S. Cellular network switch engineer in Oklahoma City keeps calls connected Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 12:01AMTully Satterfield is not the tech-minded brains behind the workings of your increasingly multitasking cell phone. And he might be hard-pressed to answer the influx of calls that cell users phone into customer service call centers.But his behind-the-scenes job as a network switch engineer for U.S. Cellular at the Oklahoma City switching facility near downtown is a position that keeps all those ...
- Heads up: new laws for 2009 Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 8:15PMFrom no texting while driving to new family medical leave entitlements, Milpitans along with the rest of California will see these and a number of other new laws introduced on Jan. 1, 2009.
- Session of hope? Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 1:42PMSession of hope?
- EDICION ELECTRONICA Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 1:02PMNo-text Law Goes Into Effect DMV Tells Drivers to Keep Their Eyes on the Road or Pay a Fine Sacramento, Calif.
- Chicago may get WiMax later this year Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 7:12AMNetwork to deliver fast, wireless Internet may arrive later in year The future of the Internet was supposed to arrive in Chicago by the end of 2008. Instead, WiMax landed in Baltimore and is heading to Portland.
- Bullying in cyberspace Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 5:03AMBullying is a timeless schoolyard problem, but in the past decade it has taken a modern twist...
- Ulitawo gitulis, P21 mil nga selpon impas Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 4:00AMHILABIHAN ang kalisang nga gibati sa usa ka ulitawo kinsa gitulis sa duha ka wala mailhing mga suspetsado samtang nagsakay og jeep pasaheroan sa alas 11:00 pasado sa gabii niadtong Biyernes.
- CodeRED system in place for Fortuna Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 3:31AMThe Fortuna Police Department has become part of an emergency communications network that allows mass emergency notifications. The CodeRED Emergency Notification System is a high-volume, high-speed communication service that uses Internet
- Friday, January 2, 2009 Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 2:32PMMobile phone tariffs are likely to come down soon. With the TRAI beginning the process of rationalising various charges payable between the operators, mobile tariffs may come down by 20 to 30 per cent.
- MCHS ranked No. 2 in $100,000 contest Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 12:32PMVotes keep pouring in for McMinn County High School in a national contest that could net the school a $100,000 prize.
- Obama online supporters key to pushing his agenda Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 11:53AMHONOLULU -- President-elect Barack Obama’s top asset in pushing his agenda will not be his Cabinet secretaries or aides, but rather his online network.
- Smart subscribers reach 35 M; rise in mobile Internet use cited Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 10:19AMDespite stiff competition and an economic slowdown, Smart Communications, Inc. increased its subscriber base to 35 million as of end-2008, up 16% from end-2007.
- Kennebunk police log Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 5:17AM Monday, Dec. 8
- La Quinta police blotter for Jan. 1 Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 3:18AMLa Quinta police blotter for Jan. 1
- Hyde Park plans cell tower on 9G garage site Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 2:08AMHYDE PARK - The town is proposing to erect a cell tower on the highway garage property on Route 9G.
- Troopers to increase patrols through weekend Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 2:03AMThe Nevada Highway Patrol will have additional troopers working traffic enforcement this weekend, and NHP spokesman Trooper Chuck Allen asked that the public participate in identifying impaired drivers.
- Globaltel Media Launches Pre-Release of Cherple Worldwide Mobile-Online Texting Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 11:01AMGlobaltel Media (GTM) launched the pre-release version of its new application, dubbed Cherple, which allows two-way text communication between online computers and mobile wireless cellular devices. Cherple will officially launch in 2009. Globaltel Media claims Cherple will eventually provide any of the global 1.5 billion online users with back-and-forth text-message conversations to any of the ...
- • January 2009 FEATURE ARTICLES • Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 10:46AMMobile collaborative care solutions are utilizing cell phones for just-in-time interventions, improving outcomes for the chronically ill and containing costs.
- County changes cell phone policies Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 10:07AMThere’ a change coming for county employees who carry cell phones on the job. No longer will those phones be supplied by the county. />Instead, employees will receive a stipend, based on usage for county business, for the use of their personal phones.
- Globaltel Media Launches Pre-Release of Cherple Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 8:26AMGlobaltel Media, Inc. (GTM) today launched the pre-release version of its new application, dubbed Cherple™, which allows two-way text communication between online computers and mobile wireless cellular devices. Cherple™ will officially be launched at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
- Hebert: Orgeron headed to LSU Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 8:13AMSaints assistant will get associate head coach title
- Globaltel Media Launches Pre-Release of Cherple Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 8:00AM SAN DIEGO----Globaltel Media, Inc. today launched the pre-release version of its new application, dubbed Cherple™, which allows two-way text communication between online computers and mobile wireless cellular devices.
- Rent Your Next Phone Rather Than Buy It Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 7:36AM A new start-up based in New Jersey is offering people stuck in lengthy wireless contracts the opportunity to switch handsets without paying full price. Rentobile has bought cell phones from the major cellular carriers at full price, and then ... (follow link to read)
- Review: Samsung Omnia Phone Is Tops Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 9:44AMFrequent readers of this space may recall I frequently dislike PDA cellular phones, especially ones with terrible battery life. I have tested a dozen phones over the years and carried a half-dozen and really liked none of them much. Now, I am in love. No, really. The Samsung Omnia from Verizon Wireless is just breathtakingly good. It has everything I want in a Smartphone (actually, more than ...
- Colleges, offices scrap land lines Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 9:38AMJennifer Wunder, an associate English professor at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Ga., says she likes to keep her college-provided cell phone handy to send text messages and e-mails to students.
- 2008: The Year in VoIP Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 8:38AMNeed we say that 2008 has been a busy year in the world of VoIP? We’ve got a dozen months worth of intrepid reporting to prove it. Time now to get some perspective. We’ll publish soon our prognosis on what the New Year promises, but first a look back on the departing 365.
- `Nag-pusher’ kay asawa gitaktak Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 8:27AMLEVEL two nga drug pusher ug anaa sa drugs watchlist sa kapulisan sa dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu nasignit kagahapon sa buy-bust operation.
- Telematics System meets construction asset tracking needs. Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 8:24AMOEM Data Delivery Telematics System delivers wireless, hands-free means to capture and track heavy equipment asset locations, work times, engine idle, and service alerts. This allows management to monitor, in real-time, activity at individual jobsites to optimize every resource. Scalable systems are typically comprised of several modules, which can be implemented simultaneously or as needed. ...
- Honing Machine can size/finish bores to submicron accuracy. Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 8:21AMDesigned for part diameters of 0.120-2.56 in., SV-1000 series honing machines can size bores to accuracies of 0.00001 in. Vertically designed unit is available with fixed tooling plate or servo rotary table with 12-position rotary air union for fixture control, and requires just 95 x 91 x 107 in. shop floor space. High-torque, belt-driven spindle is rated at 7.5 kW to cover sizing and finishing ...
- The best of 2008 at Mobile Handset DesignLine Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 7:51AMSeveral tutorials as well as articles on femtocells are at the top of the Mobile Handset DesignLine chart for 2008.
- Motorola RAZR2 V9x review (AT&T) Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 7:12AM We check out the upgrades in our Motorola RAZR2 V9x review, as the RAZR family keeps churning out new brood.
- Anderson man suffers caller ID pain on Christmas Eve Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 3:44PMWoman accused of stabbing boyfriend after other woman gives him a ring.
- Robbery Gone Wrong Men Call Cops On Themselves Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 3:23PMMIDDLETOWN, N.Y. - Three men attempting to steal tires from a car Monday accidentally turned themselves into Orange County police by calling the cops on themselves. The men identified as Andre Price, Fabian Corley and Xavier Jenkins are all behind bars after Price inadvertently dialed 9-1-1 from his cell phone as they were stripping tires from a vehicle parked in a repair yard in Middletown, ...
- Calif. Saying Hasta La Vista To Driving While Texting Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 2:38PMIronically, text messaging has exploded in the last few years and has become a significant revenue generator for wireless carriers.
- Prosecutors File To Release Blagojevich Recordings Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 2:13PMU.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wants lawmakers to hear what Gov. Rod Blagojevich says on wiretapped phone calls.
- Bumbling Thieves Call 911 on Themselves Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 2:02PMThree men suspected of stealing tires from cars were their own worst enemy this morning when one suspect accidentally dialed 911 on his cell phone. READ MORE>> LISTEN : 911 Call
- INFO-TECH Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 12:34PMCORPORATE GOVERNANCE: 3 more Satyam directors quit ‘January 10 board meeting may see change of guard’. Hyderabad, Dec. 29 A beleaguered Satyam Computer Services today suffered another major blow with three top independent directors ...
- Touching the world through mobile internet faxing Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 11:02AMAs of 2005, there are over 2.14 billion subscribers of mobile phones in the world. Presently, Africa has the highest growth rate of mobile phone subscribers in the world, its mobile phone market expands nearly twice as fast as their Asian counterparts.
- (AFX UK Focus) 2008-12-29 15:22 STOCKS NEWS US-DA Davidson hopeful for relief rally in January Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 9:48AMStocks on the move Real-Time Equity news U.S. stock market report
- Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 9:05AMdstates writes "AT&T left users across several Midwestern states without cellular phone service yesterday. The outage apparently resulted from a power failure at a Michigan switching center and spread to affect level3 Internet communications. The powerful windstorm also left 400,000 users without electricity. Interestingly, except for a few reports in Chicago and Indianapolis papers, AT&T has ...
- (AFX UK Focus) 2008-12-29 13:58 HEADLINE STOCKS-Some U.S. stocks to watch on Dec. 29 Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 8:34AMNEW YORK, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Some U.S. stocks to watch on Monday:
- Zimbabwe Network Stops Accepting Local Currency - Switches to US Dollars Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 8:10AMAPA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Zimbabwe’s largest mobile telephone network is phasing out Zimbabwe dollar tariffs and introducing United States denominated recharge cards from Tuesday, APA learns here.
- Idea launches operations in Karnataka Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 8:00AMBANGALORE, INDIA: Giving a new dimension to the mobile phone war in Karnataka, Idea Cellular Limited announced today the launch of its cellular service in the state.
- TRIS Rating Affirms Company & Issue Ratings and Assigns New Issue Rating of “ADVANC” at “AA/Stable” Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 12:24AMÇѹ·Õè 29 ¸Ñ¹ÇÒ¤Á 2551 13:20 ¹. TRIS Rating Co., Ltd. has affirmed the ratings of Advanced Info Service PLC (ADVANC) and its debentures at “AA”. At the same time, TRIS Rating has assigned the rating of “AA” to ADVANC’s proposed issue of up to Bt10,000 million in senior debentures.
- PUC: Phone bills will increase 4 cents Sunday, December 28, 2008 @ 2:06PMPORTLAND (AP) — The Oregon Public Utility Commission says telephone and cellular customers will see a slight increase in a state surcharge on phone bills.
