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Google’s End Run Around the Wireless Carriers

Via Tech Crunch by Mark Hendrickson on September 25, 2008 In a recently published patent, Google describes a vision for an open wireless world, one in which mobile devices (and smartphones in particular) are no longer married to particular cellular … Continue reading

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Users Are Tossing Their Landlines Overboard

Via the New York Times By PHYLLIS KORKKI Published: September 20, 2008 Still have a landline? You’re showing your age. The young, hip, cool people have cellphones only, and that is bad news for traditional phone providers. In a survey … Continue reading

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Snip! Nearly One-Fifth of Homes Have No Landline

Via the New York Times By Saul Hansell By the end of the year one in five American households may well not have a home phone line. That’s the conclusion of a new report by Nielsen, which says that already … Continue reading

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Someone Stole Your Cell Phone? Tell It to Phone Home

Via the New York Times By Claire Cain Miller Maverick Mobile Solutions, an Indian company that makes mobile applications, has a new way to protect your cell phone: tell it to follow the lead of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and “phone … Continue reading

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New cellphone carrier launching in second half of 2009

Via CBC Globalive is aiming for 1.5 million subscribers in its first three years.Globalive is aiming for 1.5 million subscribers in its first three years. (Manu Fernandez/Associated Press) More cellphone competition is on the way as Globalive Communications Inc. is … Continue reading

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Cellular signing: making cell phones usable by the deaf

from Ars Technica by zeotherm@gmail.com (Matt Ford) New research by engineers at the University of Washington has resulted in a new video encoding scheme capable of allowing individuals to communicate via American Sign Language on US cellular networks. read more…

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