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04/29/2009 Swine Flu
Updates on Your Cell Phone |
The CDC - Center for Disease Control and WHO - World
Health Organization are putting out a lot of information
about the Swine Flu. There are even Twitter accounts
that keep update information on the Swine Flu. Also
a number of RSS feeds for Swine Flu are available.
All of these can be directed to your cell phone so
you can get the latest information on your mobile
phone!
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04/28/2009 Cellular Patient
Monitoring |
Obstetricians today can monitor critical patients
remotely using an iPhone, Blackberry or other portable
communication device thanks to a software application
developed by locally-based AirStrip Technologies.
The application sends real-time wave-form data and
information to these mobile devices, giving the doctors
the ability to make vital decisions on patient care
without having to stand at the patients bedside.
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04/27/2009 Universal
Cell Chargers |
CTIA, the main industry association for U.S. mobile
operators, has put its weight behind an initiative
calling for a universal cell-phone charger.
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04/27/2009 EU Cuts
Texting Costs |
The cost of sending text messages on your mobile
phone while abroad in the European Union is about
to fall sharply in July, when a new law approved Wednesday
comes into effect.Similarly, the price of Internet
downloads onto your mobile while you are traveling
in the E.U. will drop, and calls made from abroad
will be charged per second, rather than per minute.
Currently European consumers are paying as up 24 percent
too much because their calls are rounded up to the
nearest minute, according to the European Commission,
the regulatory and executive branch of the E.U.The
European Parliament rubber-stamped the update of roaming
laws Wednesday at a plenary meeting in Strasbourg.
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04/22/2009 Broken
Phone Worth Thousands |
Criminals are willing to pay thousands of euros for
a discontinued Nokia mobile phone with a software
problem that can be exploited to hack into online
bank accounts, according to a fraud investigator in
the Netherlands.
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04/21/2009 Cellular
Monitoring |
One evening last winter, Mike Harris was watching
his local TV news when he saw a segment that caught
his attention: Parents were using software to monitor
their kids cell phones.As more kids carry cell phones,
some parents are using software to monitor their calls
and texts.
Harris, an investigator for the Child Sex Internet
Investigations Unit in Jefferson County, Colorado,
thought the service could be a new tool for combating
sexual predators.
Equipping his phone with the software, Harris posed
as an underage child on social-networking sites and
began luring pedophiles. He immediately got results.
Since then, Harris has made 83 arrests of alleged
sexual predators -- 44 of them with the help of the
monitoring program.
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04/20/2009 Retain
Harsh Penalties for Sexting |
Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas says he does not want to
change Vermonts laws to lessen the potential penalties
for teenagers who use their cell phones to send sexually
explicit pictures and messages.
The House is considering a Senate-passed bill that
would remove the threat of a child pornography prosecution
for a practice called sexting. Other laws with
lesser penalties still could apply.
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04/17/2009 Website
Review Webinar |
We in partnership with Shareware Promotions are going
to be running a Website
Review Webinar. During the course of the 40 minute
webinar we will be critiquing websites. You can submit
your website for review or simply sit back and enjoy
the commentary.
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04/16/2009 Skype Spinoff |
EBay Inc plans to spin off its Skype unit, acknowledging
that the Web telephone service does not fit with the
rest of the company, in an indictment of former CEO
Meg Whitmans acquisition strategy.
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04/16/2009 Cell Phones
the Drug of Choice in Prison |
Drugs were once the contraband of choice of prisoners.
These days, corrections officials across the country
are on the lookout for a more high-tech scourge —
cell phones.
Cell phones have been used to help at least two inmates
escape from minimum-security conservation camps. Prison
investigators fear they also are being used by gang
leaders to order assaults on other inmates and employees
and to coordinate the timing of prison uprisings.
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04/14/2009 Vermont
Considers Legalizing Sexting |
Sexting combines the words sex and texting, and essentially
involves sending sexually revealing pictures of yourself
via text message to someone. Of late, its hit the
headlines because its become a teen fad, and some
of those teens have been charged with trafficking
in child pornography.
Some of these cases are ongoing, and Vermont is considering
legalizing sexting between teens, with the proviso
that the sexting be voluntary; the measure leaves
intact penalties for those who coerce others to participate.
Vermont
Considering Legalizing Sexting
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04/13/2009 Vandals
Effect Phones |
Police had no suspects early on April 10, although
it has been speculated by some authorities that the
vandalism might be connected with a labor dispute.
About 110,000 AT&T workers nationwide have considered
going on strike. Five regional union contracts expired
on Sunday, April 5.
Connectivity was restored April 10 to tens of thousands
of land line, cellular and Internet customers of several
telecom companies in the San Francisco Bay Area following
the vandalism of underground fiber-optic telephone
and Internet cable lines at four locations on April
9.
AT&T pledged a $100,000 reward, which was increased
to $250,000 later on April 10, for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of
the felony vandalism.
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04/13/2009 Space Age
Cell Coverage |
The vast, thinly populated expanses of the country
that still lack cell phone coverage could be getting
an interesting option next year: ordinary-looking
cell phones that connect to a satellite when there's
no cell tower around.
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04/10/2009 Support
Forum |
If you have questions regarding NotePager Pro or
PageGate check out the NotePage
support forum.
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04/07/2009 Mobile
Marketing |
The four major U.S. mobile operators have agreed
to align their mobile marketing practices with a set
of guidelines to be worked out with the Mobile Marketing
Association, a move the industry group said will lead
to a more consistent user experience and lower costs
for marketing companies.
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04/04/2009 Research in
Motion Application Store |
Research In Motion is launching an online application
store that will let users of its BlackBerry smartphones
download software for everything from news and entertainment
to travel and games.
Unlike the iPhone application store of rival Apple
Inc, which offers 70 percent of revenue from each
piece of software to the developer of the software,
RIM plans to offer 80 percent.
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03/25/2009 EU Texting
to Get Cheaper |
The cost of calling, texting and accessing the Internet
via mobile phones while abroad is about to get cheaper
for European residents, following an agreement Tuesday
among lawmakers over the shape of a new mobile roaming
law.
Members of the European Parliament and representatives
of the 27 national governments reached an informal
agreement to cut prices from July 1. The compromise
they struck must be rubber-stamped by both institutions,
probably in April, but the hard negotiating is over,
said Adina-Ioana Valean, a Romanian member of the
European Parliament involved in the negotiations.
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03/24/2009 Cellular
Coupons |
AOL has launched its Shortcuts.com
coupon service on mobile phones, MediaPost reports,
in an effort to let customers get discounts while
in the grocery store or otherwise on the move.
Shortcuts.com members can select coupons from their
handsets, which will then load them onto grocery store
shopping cards. Later, when the shopper swipes their
discount card at the check-out machine, the system
will recognize the coupon and deduct its amount from
the total bill.
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