Category Archives: Phones

Americans delay cell phone upgrades

By doris | Published: June 14, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com More Americans are delaying the purchase of a new cell phone because of the current economic slump, a new survey of recycled phones suggests. ReCellular, one of the world’s largest cell phone recyclers, collected about 5 million cell phonesfrom consumers in the United States and Canada in 2009. That is about [...]

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Phone 7 Developers Limited To 20 Apps Per Day

By doris | Published: June 3, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Microsoft is restricting the certification of new mobile apps for Windows Phone Marketplace to no more than 20 a day per developer. The move is the latest sign that Microsoft’s mobile-app strategy continues to be about positioning the marketplace as a source of high-quality mobile software. Microsoft’s aim is to maintain [...]

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Google unveils pay-by-phone system

By doris | Published: May 27, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Shoppers soon will be able to use mobile phones to pay for things they buy at the checkout counter under a system unveiled by Google and a group of banks and other companies on Thursday. Google, MasterCard, Citigroup, transaction processing company First Data and Sprint will make the [...]

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How to wipe personal data from your phone

By doris | Published: May 9, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com So you bought a new phone and you want to sell your old phone, but you’re worried about the buyer finding personal information on your phone. You can never be too careful, so it’s important to know how to remove all that personal data before a stranger has the phone. Before [...]

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Gadget gives cops quick access to cell phone data

By doris | Published: April 20, 2011

Full Story at RedTape.msnbc.msn.com Bob Sullivan writes:The “Universal Forensic Extraction Device” sounds like the perfect cell phone snooping gadget. Its maker, Israel-based Cellbrite, says it can copy all the content in a cell phone — including contacts, text messages, call history, and pictures — within a few minutes. Even deleted texts and other data can [...]

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No iPhone 5 coming this June?

By doris | Published: March 29, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Wired) — Apple has traditionally debuted new iPhones at its annual software developers conference, but this year’s event in June will be 100 percent software news, according to a report. Citing anonymous tipsters, well-sourced Apple blogger Jim Dalrymple claims there will be no iPad, iPhone or Mac hardware introduced at Apple’s [...]

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It’s official: Nokia and Microsoft to team up against Apple, Google

By doris | Published: February 14, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com Well, that’s that. Symbian and MeeGo are on the way out, new partners Nokia and Microsoft confirmed early Friday, and Windows Phone is in. The widely anticipated news came just a few days after word leaked of an internal Nokia memo from CEO Stephen Elop, who compared Nokia’s precarious perch atop the [...]

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Apple calls to award woman $10K, she hangs up

By doris | Published: January 24, 2011

Full Story at technolog.msnbc.msn.com Conditioned to politely hang up on telemarketers, Gail Davis followed form recently, only to find out she had hung up on a legit Apple giveaway of a $10,000 iTunes gift card for downloading Apple’s App Store’s 10 billionth app early Saturday morning, a milestone our own Suzanne Choney wrote about over [...]

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Want to ditch AT&T for a Verizon iPhone? It may cost you

By doris | Published: January 11, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — Fans of the iPhone are practically foaming at the mouth at the idea of being able to use the popular Apple device on Verizon’s network, which many consider the nation’s most reliable. Verizon Wireless held a much-anticipated news conference Tuesday in New York to announce a deal with Apple to [...]

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Wi-Fi memory cards will send photos to your smart phone

By doris | Published: January 6, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msn c.msn.com Often, many of us with smart phones spend time figuring out the best way to send photos and videos from the phones to our computers or to others. But now, the maker of a wireless memory card says it’s coming out with a program that will send photos and videos [...]

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Google: Your new phone carrier?

By doris | Published: December 31, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — From robot cars to wind farms, Google’s expansive ambitions have taken it into some surprising corners of the tech field. Here’s another it could tackle: Becoming your telephone company. Google has assembled all the pieces it needs to be a mobile provider like Verizon, AT&T (T, Fortune [...]

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U.S. proposes cell phone ban for truck, bus drivers

By doris | Published: December 25, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. government on Friday proposed prohibiting commercial truck and bus drivers from using cell phones while behind the wheel. The Transportation Department rule would affect approximately 4 million drivers, who are already banned by the government from texting while working. The proposal is the latest move in Transportation [...]

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