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- IL bill would make wireless providers responsible for bad handsets
- If Rep. Susana Mendozas cellphone lemon law passes, it will be a coup for Illinois cellphone consumers, but wireless providers oppose it. The Chicago Tribune reports that after buying and returning three cellphones from Motorola, Mendoza decided to propose a cellphone lemon law which would allow wireless customers to...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- CA plan for campus-wide alert systems, in wake of Va. Tech shootings
- Could the Virginia Tech shootings have been avoided with better alerting systems? California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi thinks so, reports the AP. Garamendi is talking to cellular telephone companies about establishing a system to alert cell phone users to emergencies on college campuses in California. He said the...
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- ME bill would require stores to accept phones for recycling
- 65,000 tons of cell phones is hard to imagine, but that is the amount of cellphones Americans dispose of each year. In an effort to keep some of them out of the landfill, the Maine legislature is considering a proposal to make it mandatory that all cellphones be recycled, reports...
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Rural 911 not keeping up with technology - and results are life-threatening
- Most 911 calls come from cellphones. But in 40 percent of counties - mostly rural areas and small towns - dispatchers dont have the technology to pinpoint the location of the caller, The New York Times reports. Thats shocking because the technology has been available for at least five...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- State legislatures becoming cell-free zones
- Across the country, state legislatures are taking action to free the peoples chambers from cellphones, emails, pagers and PDAs, Stateline reports. Maine’s House of Representatives is the latest to join the legislative rebellion against the myriad intrusions of the Digital Age. It acted after a representative observed lobbyists...
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- NYC wants a YouTube: 911
- Call it 911 2.0. Well, maybe thats a little awkward but the idea is right. New York City wants to change its 911 system so that citizens can upload digital photos and video, mostly from cellphones, Newsday reports. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Blackberry causes pileup on freeway; WA ready to take action
- Coming on the heels of reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Washington states lawmakers have turned their focus away from a ban on using a cellphone while driving to the apparently more dangerous activity of making it illegal for drivers to text on the open road. Younger drivers ...
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Pa. high court says no right to view cellphone records
- Does a newspaper have a right to view an elected representatives cellphone records when the phone bill is paid for by the public? No, the Pennslvania Supreme Court as ruled. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Herald-Standard and former reporter Paul Sunyak sued state Rep. Larry Roberts in...
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Cellphones, YouTube expose government abuse
- YouTube is about more than exploding bottles of Pepsi, political gotcha video and segments from The Daily Show. Among the videos being shared are documentary evidence of police and other official misconduct and the speed with which Internet services like YouTube enable the dissemination of such evidence is providing an...
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
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- Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad
- Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are ZDNet Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the Pantech flip phone, Sony Bravia LCD TV, Acer Aspire laptop, and Canon PowerShot ultracompact. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-10-13
- Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model
- While the U.S. launch of WiMAX marks the debut of fast wireless Internet, the overall implications of this technology are much broader. See how this could shake up the cellular world and usher in a new breed of software, devices, and business applications. by Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)
- Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Can virtualization help when times get tough?
- When times get tough, many organizations look for new ways to reduce costs while still being able to provide their customers with the products and services they need. This appears to be just such a time. Virtualization technology can most certainly be part of the solution. Let's review how each...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- MySpace launches ad platform for small businesses
- MySpace on Monday will unveil a targeted ad platform called MyAds, a beta designed to enable smaller advertisers to use its HyperTargeting technology. HyperTargeting is the MySpace platform used by its larger advertisers. With MyAds, MySpace is trying to tap into smaller advertisers that can be used...
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste
- Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Six money-saving secrets to help stretch your tech budget
- The recent collapse of worldwide financial markets has everyone on edge. If you're like most people, tough times have you looking around at ways to cut back on spending. You might be tempted to impose a freeze on all new purchases of hardware and software, but that draconian strategy only...
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead
- Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops
- As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
- Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
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