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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...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Legislation, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology, Emergency
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Web, Emergency, cell phone
- 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 ...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, cell phone
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, Open government, Larry Roberts, paper
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, International, Web
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
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- BlackBerry the choice of organized crime
- You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...
- Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?
- Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...
- Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
- Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?
- A waste of tax payers' money as wellMarket would be better off if these clueless 'Czars' could lay their messy hand off economy.RE: Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?Yes it will be a waste of time because their reports will find that nothing is...
- Tags: Federal government, Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, HUMAN BEINGS, FCC, human being, wireless, wireless market
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- FCC to vote on wireless industry competition inquiry; Watch out Verizon and AT&T
- How does the current setup stiffle innovation?Is the fcc indicating that they feel phones are not as advanced as they should be, or that wireless networks are not as innovative as they chould be?The current setup prevents consumers from ....1. Choosing the device they want2. Using it with...
- Tags: 3G, Federal government, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, Asian Governments, bureaucrat, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., FCC, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval
- Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...
- Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Foundation of our green future
- I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...
- Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- IBM: re-training for our future
- IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...
- Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- USDOJ scrutinizing handset exclusivity contracts
- USDOJ scrutinizing handset exclusivity contractsYou're wrongcompletely.There is no supported version of IE that runs under Linux (i.e., no native Linux code)IE for Mac was discontinued a long time ago. You can still run it in your Mac though up to Tiger I think, so there is no need to...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, handset, phone, Apple Inc., network, government
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- RFID could be in all cell phones by 2010
- RFID could be in all cell phones by 2010HELL noI'll quit having a mobile phone if it comes with one of these. Sure its a great feature, but not "all" phones should/will have them. RFID is a huge privacy concern and I'm sure there are controls, but I still would...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Big Brother, RFID, phone, GPS, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity
- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivityGimme? No, its socialism in actionWhy do you figure the government has any right to dictate what phones are available through what carriers? I don't happen to like the iPhone - but I know a lot of people...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, text message pricing, carrier exclusivity, phone, text messaging
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Advances in TREKnology
- In September of 1966, the NBC television network released an iconic but short lived series that would inspire generations of inventors and technologists to bring about changes in our daily lives in the use of technology that many of us take for granted but was once...
- Tags: Netscape Communicator, Star Trek, Technology, Information Technology Star Trek, McCoy, E-mail Clients, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
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