All they need to do is tie it to your credit card and Al Gore will be able to tax you directly.
Keeping track of your carbon footprint could become as simple as slipping a mobile phone in your pocket: a London-based start-up company has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning satellites to [...]

In my uninformed opinion, I’d call some of this an excuse to “assist” users into buying unlimited plans and to offset users preferring to send SMS messages instead of using more expensive voice minutes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking the nation’s top four wireless carriers to justify the [...]

Sometimes it is hard to remember that Canada is another country and that there is “international” billing
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland family racked up nearly $20,000 on their AT&T bill, local station KPTV reported.
The Terry family said they wished they would have received some kind of warning before receiving their 200-page bill in the mail [...]

Dell is looking to revamp its consumer electronics unit again by delving back into the PMP arena again with a new MP3 player and web portal

The company currently sells several MP3 players on its site, including Microsoft’s Zune, but chose not to ally with Microsoft when building its new device. According to the Wall Street [...]

This is only for one State and the appeal in inevitable, but Early Termination Fees are a blight to consumer advocacy. They say it is to subsidize handset prices, while others say it is to lock consumers into a provider regardless of satisfaction and price gouging.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The fees that cell phone carriers [...]

With the US dollar devalued internationally, foreign investors are finding many opportunities to buy up struggling US companies.
NEW YORK (AP) — South Korea’s SK Telecom Corp. is in talks to buy struggling U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp., business news channel CNBC reported Tuesday
An agreement would be at best weeks away, CNBC said, citing people [...]

This little snippet was buried in a story about how Apple is making it more difficult to unlock an iPhone.
One major incentive for unlocking remains, especially for Europeans. Those who travel to other countries with unlocked phones can use local prepaid service plans rather than paying exorbitant international roaming fees to their home carriers.
Uniquephones.com [...]

A two of my teenaged children had gotten tied up with a few of these SMS services and were billed hundreds of dollars for these “services”.  I had to call Customer Service and complain loudly for quite a while to get them to remove these charges and then block SMS from their phones as to [...]

 
SPB has finally released the updated version of Phone Suite after being in public beta for a while.  This is one of the MUST HAVE’s for all PPC Phone devices.
 
Spb Phone Suite is a collection of all phone features you missed in Windows Mobile. These are features like profiles, call filtering, missed call notifications, [...]

This is a cross promotion to expose the Microsoft Surface to corporate markets as well as get some real world feedback.  This is a very interesting technology that will have some HUGE future appeal if Microsoft can make this ubiquitous for the home user market.

Microsoft’s multitouch Surface tabletop computer may be coming to an AT&T [...]

More and more of these music services are closing their virtual doors. Is iTunes forcing them out due to market dominance or is this just the first of the Yahoo services being sacrificed in the light of the possible Microsoft buyout.
 
Yet another iTunes competitor is going down the bit bucket–Yahoo will close its Music Unlimited [...]

All they need is GPS in the car and you could meet the pizza at the curb :)

Basically you can watch the progress of your order up to the time it leaves the store.  No more, “I wonder if they forgot my order”.
http://www.dominos.com/home/tracker/pizzatracker.jsp

 
I wondered what had kicked me off the network. I almost accused my Ex of not paying the bill…
 
AT&T technicians have resolved a network failure that may have limited access to data today for users of  the BlackBerry, iPhone and other wireless devices.
 
Dan Feldstein, an AT&T spokesman in Houston, said technicians fixed [...]

This is pretty good info for many devices, I’ve saved a laptop from a quart of Gatoraid and a cell from a swimming pool. Conversely, I’ve lost several phones from washing machines .  So, I’d consider it a miracle to be able to recover a device from a dunking and if you are lucky enough [...]

Oopsie, there is a problem here.  I’d assume there will be a program to return affected devices announced at some point.
On Friday evening, T-Mobile issued an advisory noting that the company had ceased sales of its new Sidekick Slide. According to the statement, the move comes after handset manufacturer Motorola confirmed that some devices may [...]

This seems like a pretty good idea, probably better when they get the price down, but the concept will help speed the adoption of the program.  Odds are the first bunch will wind up on ebay, everything does.
 
This is a time limited offer, so break out your Christmas funds and share it with someone that [...]

Like most of us, I do not run an antivirus on my PPC. The time will come however when this will become a problem, especially with the increasing converged device market and adoption of mobile devices in the corporate market.  Stealing the address book of your teenage daughter is one thing, but stealing the password hash [...]

In the words of the bard Tom Petty;
You’re jammin’ me, You’re jammin’ meQuit jammin’ me

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 – One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone.
“She was [...]

The SanDisk Cruzer Contour is a U3 USB drive with a unique sliding mechanism that will alternately expose and conceal the USB connector eliminating lost caps.
 

 
Review posted at: http://www.aximsite.com/boards/vbarticles.php?do=article&articleid=451

This is great news, as where Google goes, the others will follow.  Hopefully this will eventually lead to hosted exchange getting cheaper, that will make life easier for all of us.
Google has upped the ante when it comes to relying on Gmail as a full featured e-mail service with its introduction today of free IMAP [...]