The Road Warrior Mailbag - September 18, 2006
MacOPINION - Sep 17 10:23 PM
2nd hand iBook worth buying? Hell yeah!Save to My Web

Highs 'n lows of mighty long road trip
Seattle Times - Sep 14 12:08 AM
If memory serves, Wyoming has some very spectacular parts. The problem is, the vast majority of Wyoming is not among them. This thought will occur...Save to My Web

Keeping User Engaged
Marketing Y Medios - Sep 28 2:09 PM
Verizon Wireless ran an online campaign surrounding the 2006 FIFA World Cup that included several layers of user interaction with the brand. The nation's second-largest wireless provider was promoting its premium V CAST service that includes Internet connectivity, music and video.Save to My Web

Cellular Services Comparison
WATE - Sprint/Nextel ( www.sprint.com ), ( www.nextel.com ) Sprint bought out Nextel and merged the two companies, but they still offer the same features, including PTT (Push To Talk). With that being said, anyone in a business where constant communication is a

Here is the latest Virginia sports from The AP
WRIC TV - The South Boston native is now on top of the Nextel Cup standings, but he still worries about how his car and team will perform in each race. KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) _ Kasey Kahne will have to do more at Kansas Speedway than just drive hard and avoid

Review: Running gadgets great but fussy
Silicon Valley - Despite a lower startup cost - $10 a month on certain Sprint, Nextel and Verizon phones, plus data plans for Sprint and Nextel - the charges add up. I'd rather pay up front, particularly for a gadget that offers more. The Timex and Garmin systems are

Bucks municipalities OK cable deal
Doylestown Central Bucks Life, PA - 4 hours ago... Residents who currently use Verizon's phone or DSL Internet service could continue to subscribe to that service with no changes or choose to upgrade to ...

Paying too much for your cell phone?
AZFamily (subscription), AZ - Sep 22, 2006... For example, most of Gary Harper's friends and family use Verizon, which is not an endorsement, but when a Verizon user calls another Verizon phone, it's a ...

Loyal customers keep city liquor store in business
Nashua Telegraph (subscription), NH - Sep 9, 2006... There s something else unusual about the downtown store: It may get the oddest phone calls because of a misprint in the Verizon phone book for the Nashua area ...

Verizon to give refunds for phony numbers
Roanoke Times, VA - Sep 7, 2006If your number was wrong in a Verizon phone book, you might be in for a refund. Verizon and staff from the State Corporation Commission ...

Plenty of folks want a law against lies
The Canton Repository - 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Executives from the nation's largest wireless telephone companies told lawmakers Friday they should outlaw the practice of lying to get access to someone else's phone records - also know...Save to My Web

Verizon, Cingular sue over pretexts
Daily Record - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless, the two biggest U.S. mobile-phone services providers, sued investigators for Hewlett-Packard Co., saying they used fraud to obtain billing records in a probe of boardroom leaks.Save to My Web

Cingular Sues Firm, Others Linked To HP Pretexting
ChannelWeb - Sep 29 12:06 PM
Cingular Wireless on Friday said it filed a lawsuit against a Georgia firm and unnamed data brokers, accusing them of using deceptive means to obtain telephone records in a probe by Hewlett-Packard.Save to My Web

Sony Troubles Grow With Battery Recalls
The Times of Northwest Indiana - Sep 29 10:41 PM
TOKYO - Sony urged a dozen laptop computer makers Friday to recall more of its batteries that could overheat, the latest headache for the electronics company struggling to regain its luster as the world's premier electronics brand.Save to My Web

Latest News
dBusinessNews.com - Nationwide Sprint PCS Network, Nextel Gates Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Grameen Foundation WASHINGTON -- Grameen Foundation, a leading global microfinance organization, today Parature Showcasing Customer Support Solution at Gartner CRM

Ruling favors Esrey, LeMay
Kansas City Star - The lawsuit, which was filed in 2004 by disgruntled Sprint PCS shareholders, challenges the fairness of Sprint s 2004 recombination of its former tracking stocks, which represented the value of its FON wireline and PCS wireless operations. The PCS

Harlem native will be serving up soul food in Allentown
Allentown Morning Call - Yakety Yak sells products by national carriers such as Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Alltel and more. It also sells wireless communications accessories, both useful and decorative. More information on the chain is available at its Web site

cell phones
Network World Fusion - The new service will be available to Sprint PCS Network users for $6.95 per month, giving them on-demand access to seven movie genres, including titles that MSpot will provide in "chapter" formats (about five minutes on average). The service will

It'll be a September to remember
MLB.com - Sep 1, 2006... It's currently available on Sprint phones and gradually will be available on all mobile platforms. Got a Verizon phone in the Dominican Republic? ...

Verizon to give refunds for phony numbers
Roanoke Times, VA - Sep 7, 2006If your number was wrong in a Verizon phone book, you might be in for a refund. Verizon and staff from the State Corporation Commission ...

Highs 'n lows of mighty long road trip
Seattle Times, United States - Sep 14, 2006... We are not making this up. By comparison, Emjay's Verizon phone was active nearly all the way home even in places you'd never expect it. ...

Nokia needs device revamp to regain U.S. ground: analysts
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sep 25 2:46 PM
Nokia aims to regain popularity among U.S. consumers with advanced devices and retail stores, but the world's No. 1 cellphone maker may need a revamp of its devices to dent the lead of Motorola Inc., analysts said.Save to My Web

Motorola hatching big plans for Symbol
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News - Sep 25 3:01 AM
Motorolas Greg Brown was channeling Winston Churchill last week when he announced his companys plans to take on the BlackBerry market with wireless devices for all manner of enterprise jobs.Save to My Web

Nokia Presses Play on Another Music Phone
PC Magazine via Yahoo! News - Sep 26 10:58 AM
Nokia introduced a new midrange music phone for the US this evening, joining their high-end N75 music phone in a push for the American multimedia market.Save to My Web

Motorola adopts Largan camera modules for new handsets
Digi Times - Sep 26 9:39 PM
Motorola has chosen Largan Precision as the supplier of 2-megapixel camera modules for use in two new handset models, the KZRZ (K1) and RIZR (Z3), which the handset vendor will launch in the fourth quarter, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times. Largan has been a chief supplier of 2-megapixel camera modules for Motorola handsets, including the RAZR (V3) series, the paper noted.Save to My Web

Quepasa Corporation Launches Mobile Entertainment Products ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - Aug 30, 2006... cell phone. Ringtones categories include Latin, Latin Rock, Reggaton, Pop, Hip Hop, Hard Rock, and other contemporary channels. ...

DEPT. OF EVERLASTING PEACE
New Yorker, United States - Sep 18, 2006... Bart s slowly filled with dignitaries, and therefore the vestments and cell-phone ringtones, of many faiths: Jain, Shintoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Yoruba ...

Digital Music And Ringtone Downloading Kiosks
newswire.co.nz, New Zealand - Sep 4, 2006A new way to download music and cell phone ringtones in New Zealand is about to come onto the market. Icon Digital Entertainment ...

Spin Cycle
Contra Costa Times, CA - Sep 9, 2006... their mortgages. They still compose symphonies, but they also do movie soundtracks, cell phone ringtones and now, the news. Horner's ...

Now buy ringtones from gorcery stores
CNN-IBN, India - Sep 13, 2006New Delhi: Mobile ringtones are now on the grocery list with Big Bazaar retailing India's first all-mobile, all-operator ringtone cards. ...

Pure-Play CD Retailers Experience Death by a Thousand Cuts
eMarketer, NY - Aug 30, 2006... The fact that sales of mobile ringtones or caller tunes are just as valid a measure of an artist's popularity as CD or album sales in NZ only piles on to the ...

Digital Music Group Announces the Acquisition of Digital Rights ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - Sep 11, 2006... 30, 2006, DRA derived 27 percent of its revenue from digital music outlets where DMGI does not have a presence, including channels for mobile ringtones and over ...

Cingular improves Memphis-area network
Bizjournals.com, NC - Sep 13, 2006Cingular Wireless announced Wednesday it had recently added four new cell sites in the Memphis area. ... Cingular is owned by San Antonio-based AT&T Inc. ...

Samsung SGH-c417 Brings a Touch of Class and Color With Value ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - 2 hours ago... The SGH-c417 is available in a sleek, charcoal grey metallic finish through select Cingular Wireless locations or via http://www.cingular.com . ...

YouTube teams with Cingular, ABC for talent hunt
CNET News.com, CA - Sep 20, 2006... The finalists will appear on ABC's "Good Morning America" show. Walt Disney owns the ABC network. Cingular Wireless also has signed on as a major sponsor. ...

Riggs wins Busch pole at Dover
Myrtle Beach Online - Riggs qualified second fastest for Sunday's Nextel Cup race, getting beat late in the session by pole-winner Jeff Gordon. Regan Smith was third fastest on Saturday, Greg Biffle fourth and Paul Menard fifth. Series points leader Kevin Harvick lines up

Bowyer maneuvers his way to win in 200
Delaware Online - BOWYER FILE DRIVES: No. 2 ACDelco Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing AGE: 27 FROM: Emporia, Kan. CAREER BUSCH WINS: 3 NOTABLE: Will start today's Dover 400 Nextel Cup race from the sixth position. Bowyer is running a full schedule in the

NASCAR's Busch push north will result in Montreal race the first
Biloxi Sun Herald - The race will not be scheduled during a July off-weekend for the Nextel Cup Series as several reports have indicated. Instead, the race will be run the same weekend as the second Cup race at Pocono, sources said. The move would also provide back-to

Spin Cycle
Contra Costa Times - Sep 09 3:16 AM
Fluffing and folding the news Live long and prosper You know 250 million "Star Trek" fans can't be wrong. Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the TV show that dared to cross the final frontier and ... Go. Where. No man. (strange pause, then quickened delivery) Has gone before.Save to My Web

News Corp. pays $187.5 mln for 51% of VeriSign ringtone unit: WSJ
Market Watch - Sep 12 12:39 AM
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- News Corp. bought a majority stake in VeriSign Inc.'s ringtone-sales unit in a deal that will make it a key player in the mobile-content industry, the Wall Street Journal's European edition reported Tuesday. Save to My Web

Rockapella and Paid Inc. Celebrity Services Launch New Rockapella.com Website
Broadcast Newsroom - Sep 13 5:36 AM
WORCESTER, Mass., BUSINESS WIRE -- Rockapella, the kings of contemporary a cappella music, and Paid, Inc. celebrity services (OTCBB:PAYD), today launched an all-new edition of Rockapella's official website: http://www.rockapella.com. Paid celebrity services designed and will manage the user-friendly website.Save to My Web

Quepasa Corporation Launches Mobile Entertainment Products, Including Ringtones, Wallpapers, and Other Cellular
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Aug 30 5:02 AM
Quepasa Corporation announced today the sales launch of cellular telephone ringtones, wallpapers, and related products.Save to My Web