When you travel abroad, your cellphone rarely works. When it does, you get socked with roaming rates up to several dollars a minute. A simple fix would be to simply switch out your SIM card for a local one. Of course, with US carriers...
WASHINGTON -- Jawad Khaki came to America for justice and freedom. But he says he doubts those ideals after U.S. Customs officials have repeatedly searched his smart phone when he returns from abroad. Khaki's story joins other reports in the past few years of U.S. Customs...
Tech junkies looking to pinch pennies in today's economy can scour the Web for a bounty of free software -- for word-processing and photo-editing, online storage and more. Dozens of downloadable or online-only applications are available at no charge. While many are scaled-down versions of paid...
Some guys like ties, but all boys love toys. Whether dad's the sporting type, a race-car driver in training, an action hero, a rock-star wannabe or the more cerebral type, there's electronic entertainment perfect for him this Father's Day. Video-game writer Marc Saltzman offers a few suggestions. ...
When 24-year-old La'Toyia Figueroa disappeared on July 18, 2005, Philadelphia police quickly tapped into a trove of digital clues: the cell-phone records of the missing woman and her ex-boyfriend, Stephen Poaches. By learning whom they had called and which towers had transmitted the signals, investigators were able to retrace...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- Talking with Greg Brown, Motorola's new CEO, is a bit like stepping into The Twilight Zone: Both require you to suspend disbelief, at least temporarily, and simply go with the story line. Brown says the company's board is spinning off Motorola's troubled cellphone division for...
1. Changed your mind? Act fast. With the big four carriers -- AT&T Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless -- you may cancel a contract without penalty within 30 days of signing. Miss the deadline and you face an early-termination fee of up to $200 per line. ...
The iPhone is about to get more than a little help from its friends. Any day now, Apple is expected to release a developer's kit that will allow independent programmers to create new applications for the device. While it is common for mainstream PC users to...
Changing technology has hotels looking beyond the traditional plastic key card as a way to unlock guest-room doors. The Plaza Hotel in New York, now closed for renovation, will open later this year with radio-frequency cards that unlock the door when swiped past the lock at close range....
Byline: BRYON MORRISON "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough,'' Albert Einstein once said. That has never been truer than in U.S. mobile marketing. Our leading brand marketers probably wish they had Einstein on...
Byline: RYAN MCCONNELL Most people would assume cellphones get in the way of learning. David Droga is betting they can help. The creative big and founder of the start-up Droga5, who previously launched the highly successful Tap...
Antivirus Protection for Users Who "Unlock" Their Phone BUCHAREST, Romania -- BitDefender[R], an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, has updated its antivirus software solutions with signatures designed to detect malformed TIFF files created to exploit a vulnerability in the iPhone[R] Safari...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — A civil lawsuit filed in California accuses Apple of creating an unlawful iPhone monopoly and vindictively releasing a software update that turns hacked devices into "iBricks." The lawsuit, filed by attorney Damian Fernandez on behalf of a California man, accuses Apple of creating a...
Apple put out a consumer warning Monday: Buy an "unlocked" iPhone at your own peril. In the USA, most cellphones are sold "locked," meaning a phone is tied to the carrier that supplied it. Apple's combination iPod, cellphone and Internet device works exclusively with AT&T. Some...
NEW YORK AFP — A group of hackers said they will soon sell software allowing Apple's iPhone to be used with any cellphone carrier, skirting AT&T's exclusive deal in the United States. The consumer frenzy over Apple's sensational phone was, for some, dampened by the fact that AT&T...
Are you unlocked? If you live in the USA, probably not. Wireless devices here are generally "locked" by carriers so that they work only with that carrier's network and software applications. In Europe, the situation is just the opposite: Phones are typically "unlocked," enabling wireless customers...
The cellphone offers New Zealand advertisers a powerful channel to reach youth. And we already have at our fingertips the technology to send targeted, text or rich media messages over the cellular network. So where the bloody hell are the ads? Well, that's a...
Mark it on your calendar: Nov. 27, 2006, the day a Colorado cellphone recycling outfit accomplished what high-powered lawyers could not and chiseled a chink in the armor of the mobile-phone industry's cherished business model. The Library of Congress' decision that...
American Tower, a Boston-based company, is in discussions with Bharti, Aircel, Hutchison-Essar, and Tata Teleservices. The company will offer management and outsourcing of towers to Indian companies, who in turn will save on unlock value for shareholders, cut costs, and provide new capital. Reliance Communications had already decided to offload...
CHICAGO -- Charles Carlson, editor of the DRIP Investor newsletter, highlights several stocks that are down but not out. Read about ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX), Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE: FSL) and Western Digital Corporation (NYSE: WDC) . Read about Click here...
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