Verizon Begins Offering FiOS / Broadband Service
Wireless IQ - Apr 18 8:39 AM
Deep in the heart of North Texas, a video service shootout begins today...Save to My Web

Cells get personal
The Biloxi Sun Herald - May 02 1:21 PM
Rich Muller loves to spend his hour-long train commute watching TV shows on his phone.Save to My Web

Verizon expands NH broadband
New Hampshire Union Leader - Apr 29 9:13 PM
Verizon is expanding broadband Internet service in New Hampshire and has just wrapped up a deal in Vermont where it will expand the areas it offers broadband Internet service through telephone lines or wireless technology.Save to My Web

It will soon be easier to call city
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel - Apr 26 7:47 AM
The city of Fort Waynes phone listings take up the better part of a page in the front of the phone book. Once youve found the page (hint its in the blue tabbed section in the front of the Verizon phone book), youve still got some work to do, weeding through about 100 phone numbers to find the right one.Save to My Web

Charles Arthur: Newly asked questions
Guardian Unlimited - Apr 26 6:13 PM
What is more likely is that eBay's newly acquired web-based phone service will find out whether there's any market for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) ringtones.Save to My Web

Newly asked questions: Has file sharing cost the music industry 1.1bn over 3 years?
Guardian Unlimited - Apr 12 4:44 PM
Not according to a back-of-the-envelope calculation by Jupiter Research's Mark Mulligan, who reckons the true figure is closer to 290m.Save to My Web

Desperate Housewives Appear Online
TechWeb via Yahoo! News - Apr 11 10:49 AM
Viewers desperate for the latest gossip from Wisteria Lane can now catch up for free on the Internet.Save to My Web

Mixed opening seen as blue chip earnings disappoint
FT.com via Yahoo! News - May 03 6:00 AM
Stock futures were mixed on Wednesday as results from Procter & Gamble and Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) came in below analyst forecasts. Also in focus were software-maker Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) and Motorola (NYSE:MOT).Save to My Web

Cingular's Fun-Free Motorola L2 for Biz
DesignTechnica - May 03 11:35 AM
Cingular is offering business and government users the Motorola L2 phone: like a SLVR with all the fun taken out of it.Save to My Web

Motorola SLVR City to illuminate the face of New Dubai
AME Info - May 04 3:20 AM
Motorola is poised to make history today with SLVR City, with a dazzling first-of-its-kind outdoor illumination against some of the most prominent buildings in 'New Dubai'.Save to My Web

AMD, Intel and MIT chastised for cheap PC fight
The Register - May 05 5:46 PM
'We want phones' WCIT The unusual struggle to provide adequate, cheap PCs to the world's poor has gone awry before it really even began in earnest. A group of technology leaders today chastised the likes of AMD, Intel and MIT for failing to cooperate around their efforts to create low-cost computers. Compounding the tension, the leaders added that they'd prefer to see the likes of Nokia and Save to My Web

Dozens rescued from New York City cable cars
KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul - Apr 19 11:59 AM
Working through the night, police on Wednesday plucked the last of 69 people stranded up to 12 hours in two cable cars thatSave to My Web

Passengers sang, joked while stranded on tram
The Columbus Dispatch - Apr 20 4:09 AM
NEW YORK Stranded in tram cars hundreds of feet above the East River, the passengers kept calm by telling jokes and playing cell-phone ringtones. All the while, police scrambled to get them down, at one point hoisting formula, diapers and snacks into a car containing two babies.Save to My Web

Ringtones, jokes helped the stranded pass time
Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 20 7:03 PM
NEW YORK - Stranded in cable cars hundreds of feet above the East River, the passengers kept calm by telling jokes and playing cell phone ringtones. All the while, police scrambled to get them down, at one point hoisting baby formula, diapers and snacks into a car containing two babies.Save to My Web

A new twist in the cell phone price wars
CNN Money - Apr 20 3:15 PM
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Alltel, the nation's fifth largest wireless phone company, has fired the latest volley in the cell phone price wars.Save to My Web

The different possibilities using mobile phone ringtones
LiveArticles.org, CA - Apr 11, 2006... We wanted the best of mobile tones and gradually a host of mobile ringtones such as polyphonic ringtones, Nokia ringtones, funny ringtones, mp3 ringtones, true ...

The working of mobile phone ringtones
LiveArticles.org, CA - Apr 9, 2006... ringtones. More often than not, this is done to cover the costs of royalties of the songs, on which the mobile ringtones are based. ...

Has file sharing cost the music industry 1.1bn over 3 years?
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Apr 12, 2006... because it fears what will happen when young file sharers grow up - and are used to not paying for music; though studies show they do buy mobile ringtones. ...

Skype Brings You Mobile Ringtones
Playfuls.com, Romania - Apr 26, 2006by Playfuls Team. Skype announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical ...

Sprint to Buy UbiquiTel
TheStreet.com - Apr 20 9:19 AM
The deal is valued at $1 billion. Sprint will also assume $300 million of debt.Save to My Web

New Web Sitcom 'Deliverance By The Slice' on BlipTV
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Apr 05 9:30 AM
Empty Street Films announces that their web comedy series "Deliverance By The Slice" is now running on BlipTV, a premium video channel on Sprint PCS.Save to My Web

Sprint Nextel to Acquire Wireless Affiliate UbiquiTel
Wireless IQ - Apr 20 8:52 AM
Sprint Nextel Corp. and UbiquiTel Inc. today announced an agreement for...Save to My Web

Southern California Joint Pole Committee Celebrates 100 Years of Cooperation Among Utilities
[Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News - Apr 27 5:00 AM
San Dimas, CA (PRWEB) April 27, 2006 -- On October 10, 1906 representatives of the fledgling power, telephone and railroad industries met and developed a unique way to deal with the construction of utility poles.Save to My Web

Mariah to produce ringtones
Tonight South Africa - Mariah Carey is to write and record cellphone ringtones exclusively for Pepsi. The Grammy Award-winning singer has signed a lucrative deal to come up with tones for the Pepsi Cool Tones & Motorola Phones promotion. The promotion is the first to offer

London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, London
Financial Times - At this rate Cliff Richard will not be the only one agitating for a change to the copyright laws. With the London Symphony Orchestra getting Beethoven to number two on the iTunes classical chart and selling his music as mobile ringtones, Cliff could

Desperate Housewives Go Online
Personal Tech Pipeline - Viewers desperate for the latest gossip from Wisteria Lane can now catch up for free on the Internet. In a push to expand its online presence while capitalizing on the popularity of several hit shows, ABC is offering Desperate Housewives reruns the

Britons Too Worried About Choosing Ringtones
PhoneContent.com - According to a report published by the Sun "paranoid Brits" are getting "hung up over choosing their mobile ringtones as they fear it will make them a laughing stock." The report says that 80 per cent of the Britons were worried what others would

VZ Navigator: Do not pass Go, *do* pass destination, go directly ...
Autoblog, CA - Apr 17, 2006... carry the load alone. This example shows why an alert driver is also needed. The Verizon phone system is crazy. A very small screen ...

Back Up Your Cell Phone's Address Book
PC World - Apr 27, 2006... For example, you can transfer information from one Verizon Wireless phone to another Verizon phone, but you can't move data from a Verizon phone to a Sprint ...

Cell Phones for Laptop Users?
Slashdot - Apr 26, 2006... A friend of mine purchased a Verizon phone and couldn't use the dialup feature without upping the per month pricing significantly (at least $59.99 versus ...

It will soon be easier to call city
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN - Apr 26, 2006Once you ve found the page (hint it s in the blue tabbed section in the front of the Verizon phone book), you ve still got some work to do, weeding ...

Cellular phone ads shift focus
Dayton Daily News - For decades, marketers in crowded categories like banking and fast food have tried to avoid price wars by promoting qualities like their service and convenience. Now cell phone companies have joined the fray, and their ads are causing backbiting as

NASCAR Nextel Cup Leaders
FOXSports.com - 1, Jimmie Johnson, 1394. 2, Matt Kenseth, 1373. 3, Tony Stewart, 1316. 4, Kasey Kahne, 1213. 5, Mark Martin, 1210. 6, Jeff Gordon , 1173. 7, Kevin Harvick, 1138. 8, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., 1120. 9, Kyle Busch, 1077. 10, Dale Jarrett, 1066. 11, Casey

Canandaigua to crown newest USAC Sprint Car winner in New York State
Who Won - CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. -- The United States Auto Club has sanctioned 73 races in New York State. USAC s Golden Anniversary celebration, 1956-2006, will continue on May 6 as Canandaigua Speedway becomes just the fifth track to host a national

Britons Too Worried About Choosing Ringtones
PhoneContent.com - According to a report published by the Sun "paranoid Brits" are getting "hung up over choosing their mobile ringtones as they fear it will make them a laughing stock." The report says that 80 per cent of the Britons were worried what others would

London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, London
Financial Times - At this rate Cliff Richard will not be the only one agitating for a change to the copyright laws. With the London Symphony Orchestra getting Beethoven to number two on the iTunes classical chart and selling his music as mobile ringtones, Cliff could

Desperate Housewives Appear Online
TechWeb - Viewers desperate for the latest gossip from Wisteria Lane can now catch up for free on the Internet. In a push to expand its online presence while capitalizing on the popularity of several hit shows, ABC is offering Desperate Housewives reruns the

Skype Brings You Mobile Ringtones
Playfuls - Skype announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for Skype. The agreements are with three major music publishing companies EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music

Verizon Begins Offering FiOS TV Service in Its Largest Texas ...
Finanzen.net, Germany - Apr 18, 2006... Customers interested in learning more about FiOS and other broadband services can also visit the Verizon broadband lounge at the Verizon Phone Plus store near ...

Brandtique: Oreos, Maybelline, Verizon
MediPost Publications, New York - May 1, 2006... Seth is confused. "What the hell is aV Cast?" he asks. Then, Anna whips out her Verizon phone and shows him the video version. In ...

VZ Navigator: Do not pass Go, *do* pass destination, go directly ...
Autoblog, CA - Apr 17, 2006... carry the load alone. This example shows why an alert driver is also needed. The Verizon phone system is crazy. A very small screen ...

Local emergency numbers remain in phone book despite shift to 911
Hornell Evening Tribune, NY - Apr 17, 2006When Verizon phone books were released at the beginning of the month, one omission stirred up the Steuben County public safety community. ...

Nokia 2865i announced
MobileTracker - CTIA 2006 -- The Nokia 2865i is one of three new CDMA handsets Nokia announced this morning (see 6175i and 2365i for info on the others). The Series 40 handset falls in the mid-range, and includes the following features: Bluetooth 2.0 / IR 128 160

Skype to offer EMI Music ringtones
Silicon Valley - Skype struck a deal Tuesday that will bring the sounds of Madonna and potentially thousands of other artists as ringtones to people who use the company's Internet phone-calling software. Ringtone versions of songs from the entire EMI Music Publishing

Mariah Rings Up Pepsi
E! Online - "I had a lot of fun with this project," the Grammy winner said in a statement. "It was a great creative outlet because musically I could do things here that I would never think to do for one of my albums. "This was a great idea by Pepsi, and I'm

Cingular 8125 Pocket PC Phone Review
Brighthand, CA - 17 hours agoCingular's 8125 Pocket PC phone, the GSM answer to the 6700, combines a large comfortable keyboard and a full suite of communication options. ...

Cingular beefs up Texas network
Milwaukee Business Journal, WI - Apr 29, 2006Cingular's 2006 investment will bring nearly 130 new cell sites high speed data services, portable and permanent generators and other enhancements to the ...

US cellphone company Cingular swings to profit in first quarter
Calgary Sun, Canada - Apr 19, 2006ATLANTA (AP) - Cingular Wireless LLC, the largest US cellphone provider, reported Wednesday that it swung to a profit in the first quarter on a nine per cent ...

Police rescue tram passengers
New York Daily News, NY - Apr 19, 2006... Speaking earlier on ABC's "Good Morning America," Dax said people on the cable car started playing cell phone ringtones to pass the time, and some of the ...

EBay Unit Licenses Warner Music Ringtones
MSN Money - Apr 25, 2006said Tuesday it has signed license agreements to provide customers cell phone ringtones using songs from the Warner Music Group library. ...

EBay Opens Express Lane For Fixed-Price Deals
MediPost Publications, New York - Apr 26, 2006... with EMI Music Group Publishing, Sony STV/Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music and the MCPS-PRS Alliance to offer customers cell phone ringtones using songs ...

Pick the Perfect Cell Phone
Washington Post - Few gadgets are as ubiquitous as cell phones. And with so many to choose from, separating the junk from the jewels is increasingly difficult. We tested a broad range of cordless phones, including PDA hybrids, to help you find the perfect device. We

Virals vs. the ad zappers
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Reports of the death of the 30-second television commercial -- which, frankly, probably wouldn't be lamented by too many viewers -- turn out to be greatly exaggerated. All you need to do is tune in to prime-time programming or catch any weekend

Cingular plans to spend $346 million in Texas, expand 3G service to
San Antonio Business Journal - Cingular Wireless LLC is planning to invest nearly $350 million upgrading and expanding its Texas network in 2006. The nation's largest wireless carrier will spend $190 million in North, East, West Texas and the Panhandle and another $156 million in

Cellphone GPS is on its way
Grand Forks Herald - The Global Positioning System devices that can help people navigate an unfamiliar city or find the nearest pizza joint are moving off the dashboard and into the cellphone. Cellphones with location technology already are a hit in Japan and South Korea

The working of mobile phone ringtones
LiveArticles.org, CA - Apr 9, 2006... ringtones. More often than not, this is done to cover the costs of royalties of the songs, on which the mobile ringtones are based. ...

Ringtone Giant Acquires Chinese Rival
PowerHomeBiz.com (press release) - Apr 25, 2006April 25, 2006 (London UK) -- MONSTERMOB, a leading mobile ringtones and game company in the UK has agreed to enter in a deal that involves buying a Chinese ...

London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, London
Financial Times, UK - Apr 25, 2006... With the London Symphony Orchestra getting Beethoven to number two on the iTunes classical chart and selling his music as mobile ringtones, Cliff could soon be ...

Mariah Carey To Write And Record Mobile Ringtones For Pesi
UK-Flava.com, UK - Apr 24, 2006The Grammy Award-winning singer has signed a lucrative deal to come up with tones for the Pepsi Cool Tones & Motorola Phones promotion. ...