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Digital dictionary helps parents decode Net language

Digital dictionary helps parents decode Net language

Parents of net-savvy teens can be excused for sometimes thinking that their kids are speaking a different language. Thanks to the explosion of text-messaging on cell phones, instant messaging, and...
iPhone watch: Apple taking on RIM and the world with corporate email, SDK, and iFund

iPhone watch: Apple taking on RIM and the world with corporate email, SDK, and iFund

Just when I thought Apple was going to make something out of nothing last week with their "iPhone Software Roadmap" press conference, they went and made some actual news.  The iPhone SDK (software...
Dont lose your number during the

Dont lose your number during the "Porting" process

Consumers switching phone providers should be sure to follow the established procedure for porting (industry-speak for transferring from one carrier to another) their numbers, said TRAC Research...
Faster: Sprint Mogul gets high speed upgrade and GPS

Faster: Sprint Mogul gets high speed upgrade and GPS

Sprint has released a software update to their HTC-built Mogul smartphone which basically doubles the handset's data download speeds - and boosting upload speeds by nearly 8x - by enabling EV-DO Rev...
Runtriz: In-Home hotline

Runtriz: In-Home hotline

With mobile phones becoming seemingly impossible to live without (just ask my 87 year old grandma who answers to the ring of ?Jack of Diane?), it's not surprising that most of the new technology in...
iPhone clone: Meizu's CeBIT booth raided by cops for piracy violations

iPhone clone: Meizu's CeBIT booth raided by cops for piracy violations

Meizu's much hyped (by them, anyway), but still yet to materialize, M8 Mini One iPhone knockoff got some publicity this week at the big CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany.  German police shut down Meizu'...
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RIM Sidekick: RIM working on BlackBerry with slideout QWERTY

RIM Sidekick: RIM working on BlackBerry with slideout QWERTY

RIM has made a fortune on BlackBerry devices that have taken a good thing and stuck with it, keeping push Email at the core of their business while ever so slowly introducing new designs and consumer...
Web surfing: Could FireFox mobile be coming to your phone?

Web surfing: Could FireFox mobile be coming to your phone?

Mozilla is in negotiations with wireless carriers to bring their FireFox Mobile browser to a cell phone near you for the low, low price of nothing, and plans to do so by year's end.  If you've never...
Super Phone: Nokia N95 may be coming to AT&T

Super Phone: Nokia N95 may be coming to AT&T

Does anyone even remember that AT&T actually carries a Nokia N-Series phone, the oversized, underpowered, crippled by its US carrier N75?  Let's hope that if the current rumor about another N-...
Awesome: Japanese cell phone looks like transformers robot

Awesome: Japanese cell phone looks like transformers robot

It's bad enough that American handsets lag behind their overseas counterparts when it comes to technology, but now Softband and TV Tokyo have introduced a mobile phone that puts the US to shame when...
Cellular industry going

Cellular industry going "Green"?

With over 1 billion cell phones sold last year alone the impact on the environment has inspired some new ideas that are so simple it seems almost unbelievable that no one has thought of them before...
Unlimited price wars: Sprint unveils $99 unlimited plan

Unlimited price wars: Sprint unveils $99 unlimited plan

A few weeks back I mentioned that Sprint was offering a $119/month unlimited voice plan in select US markets, this on the heels of MVNO Helio (a Sprint partner) offering a $99 unlimited plan...
New voicemail MAX services introduced at Alltel Wireless

New voicemail MAX services introduced at Alltel Wireless

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--Alltel Wireless, America's largest network, providing coverage across the nation, today announced it will offer Voicemail MAXTM, an application which enables customers to...
Where's the SDK?: Apple iPhone media event March 6th

Where's the SDK?: Apple iPhone media event March 6th

Apple sent out emails to select media outlets Wed. inviting them to an "iPhone Software Roadmap" media event to be held at Apple HQ next Thursday, March 6.  The text of the invite reads: ?Please join...
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Sexy: LG Glimmer coming to Alltel next month?

Sexy: LG Glimmer coming to Alltel next month?

A poster over at Howard Forums seems to have the scoop on a very hot looking new LG handset that may be an Alltel exclusive set to launch in mid-March.  The Glimmer looks like a Shine with a...
iPhone watch: No SDK, but 1.1.4 firmware hints at SDK soon

iPhone watch: No SDK, but 1.1.4 firmware hints at SDK soon

Tuesdays are Apple's traditional new product release day, and this past Tuesday came and went with nary an iPhone SDK in sight.  Bad news considering that the SDK was promised for this February and...
Glyde: Samsung U940 (F700) headed to VZW in March?

Glyde: Samsung U940 (F700) headed to VZW in March?

Here's a little update on everyone's favorite superphone that was previewed a year ago, released in Europe last Fall, and still "rumored to be coming to an American carrier" soon.  The Samsung U940...
Hit the road: Samsung Mobile unsigned battle of the bands

Hit the road: Samsung Mobile unsigned battle of the bands

What do mobile phones have to do with unknown rockstars about to hit it big?  Besides the fact that you can text your votes into American Idol, that is?  They've got everything to do with one another...
Talk forever: Everyone goes Unlimited, Sprint plan dropping to $60?

Talk forever: Everyone goes Unlimited, Sprint plan dropping to $60?

As reported here last week, all four major US cellular carriers - and a few regional and MVNO outfits, as well - announced unlimited calling plans.  While AT&T, VZW, T-Mobile, and Sprint are all...
Alltel offers 500 free minutes for a limited time

Alltel offers 500 free minutes for a limited time

Riding on the heels of Ryan Newman's recent win at this year's Daytona 500, Alltel is offering 500 free minutes to new customers and existing customers who wish add-a-line of service. The offer...

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