For the Cutting Edge in Mobile Internet, Visit Jamaica
Thursday, January 26th, 2012It is estimated that worldwide demand for WiFi will increase by 2600% by the end of 2015. That is …
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The Past, Present and Future of Technology
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Remember Ma Bell? Back in the early eighties, American Bell Telephone Company was the clear leader in the arena …
New FCC Commissioners Named By Obama
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011This past Monday President Obama designated two new names to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission): (more…)
Adults Becoming Teenagers Again Through Texting
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Texting is something that has become a forum for passive aggressive communication and manipulation over all different age levels. …
Mobile Phone and Cancer Research Has Run Its Course…For Now
Monday, October 24th, 2011There’s yet another report on cancer and mobile phones. This report is described to be the most all-encompassing into …
PayPal Mobile Payments Forecast Lifted By eBay CEO
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011A key forecast was increased by John Donahoe, eBay Inc. Chief Executive. During a recent conference on the Internet …
United States Cell Phones and Tablets Outnumber Americans
Friday, October 14th, 2011The amount of cell phones and tablets in the US now outnumbers the amount of people that live in …
Your Cell Phone and Germs
Thursday, September 29th, 2011Are you like so many of us and just drop your cell phone in any place that’s convenient to …
Is Your Cell Phone Number Being Shared By Facebook
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011If you just met a large group of random strangers in a bar would you be likely to share …
Cell Phones Used By Researchers to Track Disasters
Sunday, September 11th, 2011Cell phones are able to be utilized by organizations for the tracking of people that are fleeing from natural …
Did Life Exist Prior To Cell Phones
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Out of all the ways there are to annoy someone, one of the best ways is by answering rhetorical …
Using Your Cellphone During an Emergency: What You Should Know
Saturday, August 27th, 2011Today’s technology allows us to feel almost invincible at times, but when problems arise, we’re left feeling oddly vulnerable …
As Hurricane Irene Pounds the East Coast, Concerns about Cellular Coverage Increase
Saturday, August 27th, 2011We all know that our cellular carriers do their best to be a force for normalcy during hectic times, …
Kids’ Cellphones: The Best Phones for Kids
Sunday, August 7th, 2011If you’re like most parents, your kids are probably pestering you for a new phone every time you turn …
Mobile Health, Helping Smokers Quit Through Text Message
Monday, July 11th, 2011There were a couple of studies a few months ago which wholly refuted each other. The one stated that …
FCC To Help Consumers by Fighting Phone Fees
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011The FCC has just recently considered some new rules that would prevent mobile carriers from charging their customers any …
Android Applications Running On Windows PCs through BlueStacks
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011A small company is backed by several different companies called BlueStacks recently went through a $7.6 million financing round …
Dial for Your Dollar: Smartphones Stepping Up the Mobile Payment Push
Sunday, May 29th, 2011We’re getting closer and closer to the point where carrying a wallet is becoming an option rather than a …
Toyota Planning for a Web Link through Cell Phones
Monday, May 16th, 2011Toyota will begin selling vehicles this year which will include entertainment system, which is revolutionary, in the new vehicles …
Divorce via Text? If You Live In Tajikistan You Can
Friday, April 29th, 2011Tajikistani males are now able to use text messages divorce their wives. This comes as technology is making its …
California Cell Phone Use Bill Would Hike Driver Fines
Friday, April 29th, 2011Almost three years after California has made it illegal to use a cell phone without a hands-free device while …
Better Business Bureau Warning Against Cell Phone Smishing Scams
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011Every month there seems to be a new scam popping up, and this time it’s targeting the users of …
United States Stagnating In Technology Usage
Sunday, April 24th, 2011The United States is lagging behind when it comes to technology use. This is highlighted in a report out …
Tweeting Is Taking a Toll on Love
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011According to new data, relationships are much shorter for Twitter users on the whole. This officially confirms a suspicion …
Study Shows That Multitasking Is Taking a Toll on Short-Term Memory Function
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011Multitasking possibly could impair our overall perceptive functioning as well as our short-range recollection if a new study is …
Free Government Cell Phone Programs
Monday, April 11th, 2011Free cell phones from the government might be rage targets of the right-wing; however, they’re really not there and …
California Cell Phone Crackdown
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011Out of all the complaints that you’ll hear from people when it comes to the road is those drivers …
Middle East Protestor ‘Panic Button’ Created By United States Government
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011There has been a ‘panic button’ application developed by United States regulators which is going to allow the pro-democracy …
The Mobile and Tech Impact of the Japan Disaster
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011The disaster in Japan is having a domino effect on the technology companies that are dependent on their components, …
Mobile Phone Donations, a Game of Bait And Switch?
Saturday, March 19th, 2011In the wake of disasters and other aid funding, the text-to-give programs have been an extremely powerful for donation …
Time for Commercial Drivers to Put Their Cell Phones Down and Just Drive
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011The rules that define the road are something that are finally becoming much more specific and focused on safety. …
Clearwire Being Sued For Throttling Their Customers
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Clearwire is currently being sued by their customers. The allegation is that their internet speeds were slowed down intentionally. …
Cell Phones on the Brain
Friday, March 11th, 2011There’s a number that you need to remember when you hold the next chat on your cell phone, 50. …
Distracted Driving Bills on the Front of the Arizona Capital
Friday, March 11th, 2011Distracted driving recently took center stage at the Arizona State Capital. There are currently bills, sponsored by Steve Farley, …
Transportation to New York To Announce Attack Use of Cell Phones and Texting While Driving
Friday, March 11th, 2011Ray LaHood, The Secretary of Transportation, has stated that he was terrified of the day that each of his …
Is Using a Cell Phone Safe
Thursday, March 10th, 2011There are approximately 5-billion people throughout the world that are holding a cell phone to their ear almost every …
Transportation Department Not Ready To Ban Hands-Free Driving Use
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011For now at least, Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation, wont’ be pushing for a hands-free ban on cell phones …
Attention Distracted Drivers: California Mobile Phone Tickets are on the Rise
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011It’s a practice that’s so dangerous, and most people will admit as much, however, there are increasingly amounts of …
What to Look For When Choosing a Cell Phone Company
Monday, March 7th, 2011Everyone knows that the cell phone companies are much more competitive than even those make your kid famous show …
Can’t Sleep? Blame Your Cell Phone and Your Computer
Monday, March 7th, 2011Are you having issues with getting the right amount of sleep these days? If so, you could have your …
Application Market Impacts from the Mobile World Congress
Friday, March 4th, 2011The Mobile World Congress event has brought forth some very interesting news that will have a direct impact on …
Cell Phone Insurance, To Take or Not To Take, That Is the Question
Friday, March 4th, 2011So you’re walking into the Verizon store and you’re picking up your brand new Android smartphone. On your face …
Location Based Advertising Really Taking Off
Friday, March 4th, 2011Advertisements based on location are beginning to get pushed onto phones. This is now offering new ways for advertisers …
Almost 20% Surf the Web While Driving
Friday, March 4th, 2011Almost one out of every five drivers will web surf while they’re behind the wheel of a vehicle. This …
Our Brains React to Our Cell Phones
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011Cell phone usage appears to be increasing activity in the brain, according to a new study, in the regions …
Constant Cell Phone Contact and Major Support Sends 100% of Graduates College Bound
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011For two-years back-to-back, a charter school, all male, having pupils from the worst neighborhoods in the entire city, is …
From California to Nevada, Cell Phone Use In Prisons a Growing Concern
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011Thirty-year back, Charles Manson was sentenced to live out the rest of his life in a California prison. Manson …
Dialing Particular Numbers Can Affect Emotional State
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011There is a psychosomatic expert, Sascha Topolinski, out of Germany that’s found the manner in which mobile phones, specifically …
Cash for Recycled Electronics, California Startups Futuristic Kiosk Makes It Possible
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Imagine just stopping by one of your local neighborhood retailers, offloading your old laptop or cell phone through an …
California Man Arrested For Making Over 18,000 911 Prank Cell Phone Calls
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011A California man, out of East LA, has allegedly made over 18,000 different prank cell phone calls to 911. …
Cell Phone Insurance, Do You Really Need It
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011So you finally decided on the perfect new smartphone or cell phone. This new phone has all of the …
Distracted Driving Cell Phone Victims Getting a Voice
Monday, February 28th, 2011The distractions that come from the current 24/7/365 news cycle, is something that will more than often dilute even …
You Could Be Your Own Wireless Carrier
Monday, February 28th, 2011There is something called the Open Base Transceiver Station, short name OpenBTS. This is an open software implementation of …
Cell Phone Insurance – Mobile Phone Thefts Are Escalating
Sunday, February 27th, 2011One of the most important things in the world today, is cell phone insurance. Why exactly is that the …
How Do Corporate Cell Phone Discounts Work?
Friday, February 25th, 2011If someone told you that you could save money, right now, on your monthly cell phone bill, you would …
How Bluetooth Technology Saves You Money
Friday, February 25th, 2011In the bad old days, there were only two ways to get information off your phone, onto someone else’s …
Google’s HTC Nexus One Review
Friday, February 25th, 2011The HTC Nexus One was the first phone to run the Android 2.1 operating system in 2010. It has …
Homeless in New York City Raising Awareness through Twitter
Thursday, February 24th, 2011Three interns at the BBH ad firm created a new effort aimed toward raising the awareness level that the …
Free Wireless Roaming – the Wave of the Future?
Thursday, February 24th, 2011There was a time, not so long ago, that wireless roaming used to cost an arm and a leg. …
Eco Conscious? How About a Solar Powered Phone?
Thursday, February 24th, 2011For a couple of years, there have been solar powered phone charging options. These have all been aftermarket options, …
Did You Know Your Blackberry Could Be Censored?
Thursday, February 24th, 2011Blackberry users around the world use their beloved devices to surf the net, download content, stay in touch, and …
Cell Phone News from CES 2011
Thursday, February 24th, 2011In case you did not know, CES, or the Consumer Electronics Show, is one of the world’s biggest and …
A Big Day for the Mobile World
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011Tomorrow is shaping up to be a very weird but big day in the mobile world. It’s only weird …
Cell Phones: 2010 in Review
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011These days, technology is moving so fast that it seems that it changes from one month to the next; …
Are US Clients Really Going to Get 4G?
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011There has been a lot of buzz lately about the remarkable speeds that Americans will be able to expect …
House Vote to Stop Net Neutrality Based FCC Funding Passed
Monday, February 21st, 2011The Republicans in the House recently voted to disallow the FCC from using any of their funding to carry …
Free Cell Phone Offers, Are They Really Free?
Monday, February 21st, 2011Just ‘click here’ for your free cell phone. I’m sure that you have seen this line more than a …
Cut Class in California, You Can Be Tracked By GPS
Monday, February 21st, 2011School district officials in Anaheim, California are looking toward a new approach using cell phone technology to help stave …
New York Drivers – Leave Your Phone Alone
Friday, February 18th, 2011As with many things, figures are going to differ dependent upon the informational source you use. Most, however, agree …
Symposium Brings Out the Threats of Teens and Texting
Friday, February 18th, 2011A symposium out of Portland has brought about the reality that one of the single greatest threats to young …
Free Cell Phone Calls, Are They Ethical?
Friday, February 18th, 2011When you ask about the pursuit to achieve free and permanent calls, there are a lot of people that …
New Survey States 85% of United States Adults Own a Cell Phone
Friday, February 18th, 2011The cell phone is one of the most popular gadgets amount the American adult population. They fall right in …
What Is Cell Phone Etiquette?
Friday, February 18th, 2011You can bet that well-known author about etiquette Emily Post did not write about cell phone etiquette way back …
What Is Cell Phone Rental?
Friday, February 18th, 2011If you have ever had to travel, only to find that your phone is the wrong frequency, it is …
What is the Difference Between GSM and CDMA?
Friday, February 18th, 2011When it comes to cell phones in the US and Canada, there are two distinct types of network that …
What Is WAP?
Friday, February 18th, 2011These days, nearly every phone you buy is labelled WAP enabled. If you’re still wondering what the heck WAP …
What Is the Sony Playstation Phone?
Friday, February 18th, 2011It is quite possibly the most hyped yet to be released phone around. The Sony Playstation phone is one …
What Is Water Damage, and Can It Be Fixed?
Friday, February 18th, 2011We all know that cell phones contain high tech circuitry – it is what makes them work. However, what …
What To Do With Your Old Phone
Friday, February 18th, 2011So, you’ve come to the end of your cell phone contract. Your carrier has given you a shiny new …
New FCC Rules Prevent Surprise Cell Phone Bills
Thursday, February 17th, 2011Everyone had heard, but hopefully for the most part not experienced, a horror story about coming home from a …
Microsoft Experimenting With a Shape Shifting Touch-Screen
Thursday, February 17th, 2011Microsoft made a filing of a patent application, specifically one for the design of a touch-screen which is a …
Most Kids Getting Their First Cell Phone at Age 12 Or 13
Thursday, February 17th, 2011The majority of teens will get their first mobile phone by the time they reach the age of either …
Cell Phones Putting Health Technology in Your Pocket
Thursday, February 17th, 2011The average and healthy human brain is amazingly, well, awesome. The human brain has enough switches within the cerebral …
Hard Data Caps, Why Mobile Broadband Companies Are Reverting to Such
Thursday, February 17th, 2011Many mobile broadband service providers have, until recently, offered price plans and contracts that allow subscribers unlimited data access …
Cell Phone Is Stolen, What to Do
Thursday, February 17th, 2011For most of us, it is our biggest nightmare. When your cell phone is stolen, it is as if …
Distracted Driving, Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Cell Phone While Driving
Thursday, February 17th, 2011In most developed countries in the world, there are laws against distracted driving and using cell phones while driving. …
Why Your Cell Phone Internet Access May Be Restricted
Thursday, February 17th, 2011In January of 2011, the Media Access Project handed over a letter to the FCC, expressing concerns about the …
Panama Is Addicted To Cell Phones and There Are More Coming
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011Panama is a country that only has a 3.4 million population but they have almost 6.5 million mobile phones …
Mortal Combat – California and the Feds Lock Up
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Obama’s Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, has announced recently that he wants to outlaw both navigation systems and cell …
California Cell Phone Outrage
Monday, February 14th, 2011California state employee contracts shouldn’t be any barrier when it comes to keeping smuggled cell phones out of the …
Group States SIM Card Registration Wouldn’t Deter Criminals
Friday, February 11th, 2011Making prepaid mobile phone owners register their SIM cards is something that might not be a deterrent to crime. …
Do You Turn Off Your Cell Phone on the Plane?
Friday, February 11th, 2011If you’ve ever flown, you know that moment, right as the plane is ready to take-off: (more…)
California Governor Puts an End to State Employee Cell Phones
Friday, February 11th, 2011State agencies in California have been directed by Governor Jerry Brown to collect government paid cell phones to the …
Heat Vision for Your Cell Phone Camera
Friday, February 11th, 2011Are you someone that looks into their backyard in the middle of the night and wonder, “Are there any …
Cell Phone Roundup: Obama Set To Announce Wireless Plan, Twitter Talking To Google and Facebook, Microsoft and Nokia to Possibly Partner
Thursday, February 10th, 2011President Obama has a speech set for the Northern Michigan University. In that speech he’s expected to announce his …
Police in California Are Clamping Down On Distracted Drivers
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Police in Glendale, California, state that they have pulled over 70 motorists this past Saturday. The motorists were pulled …
New Website Aims To Help California Drivers Fight Cell Phone Tickets
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011The original California Ticket Busters, TicketBust.com provided document filing services for California drivers that find themselves in custody of …
New York Cell Phone Convictions to Carry 2 Points on Your License
Monday, February 7th, 2011As stated in a nytickethelp.com article, beginning later in the month, failing to use a hands-free device when driving …
California Highway Patrol Set to Conduct Cell Phone Zero Tolerance Day
Monday, February 7th, 2011There is going to be another zero tolerance mobile phone enforcement day by the California Highway Patrol (CHP). They’ll …
The Top 5 Mobile Phone Vendors in Q4 2010
Monday, February 7th, 2011The 4th quarter of 2010 was a great time for almost all of the phone vendors throughout the world, …
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