http://cellponsel.com All about cell phone Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:45:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in the dark ages of personal computing, if you wanted to look through the programs on your machine and, say, open a Microsoft Word document from the floppy drive, you would need to type a list of arcane commands that went something like this: DIR *.EXE MSWORD.EXE A:\REPORT.DOC In an effort to ... http://cellponsel.com/iphone/why-can%e2%80%99t-pcs-work-more-like-iphones Palm, the maker of hand-held devices, reduced its revenue goals on weak demand for its smartphones, renewing concerns about its ability to compete against rivals like Apple. The news sent Palm’s shares down 16 percent. Jon Rubinstein, Palm's chief, with Pre and Pixi smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show last month. ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/its-smartphones-selling-weakly-palm-cuts-its-forecast-shares-fall Offered two identical phones, one for $400 and the other for $150, which would cost you less? T-Mobile myTouch phones may look the same. Their prices, however, could be quite different. It could very well be the $400 phone. That can be the case when the calling plan for the ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/locked-or-unlocked-today-that-is-the-money-question by Arik Hesseldahl Thursday, February 11, 2010 provided by Consumer Electronics Teardowns The cost to make an iPod, Xbox, and other electronics has big bottom-line implications at Apple, Microsoft, and their peers. Some companies are willing to swallow losses on some gadgets -- for instance, gaming consoles -- in hopes that they'll make ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/what-your-gadget-really-costs By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Print may be a flat medium, but that has not stopped magazine publishers from trying to add dimension to their pages. For at least a decade, they have been experimenting with bar codes and icons that could take readers to Web sites, trying to add a bit of ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/from-print-to-phone-to-web-and-a-sale Cellphones have long been a fixture of life, becoming more powerful and more “aware” of their locations every year. Phone companies and software developers jump on each advance to provide new services. But the law is behind the technology. On Friday, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia is scheduled to hear ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/cellphones-and-privacy When Alexis Gorman, 26, wanted to tell a man she had been dating that the courtship was over, she felt sending a Dear John text message was too impersonal. But she worried that if she called the man, she would face an awkward conversation or a confrontation. Alexis Gorman, 26, ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/don%e2%80%99t-want-to-talk-about-it-order-a-missed-call Laws banning cellphone use while driving apparently haven’t reduced crashes, according to a study released on Friday that compared the number of total crashes before the ban with the number after. The study found virtually no difference in the numbers, a finding that had the researchers scratching their heads. “We were ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/results-of-study-on-cellphone-use-surprise-researchers Is it really possible to run a free reverse cell phone lookup on the internet? Many of us have become disillusioned and frustrated in the past with websites which appear to offer free products or services online but in fact do not. Is this the case with cell phone lookups? Firstly ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/free-reverse-cell-phone-lookup-websites-do-they-exist For years I have felt that people whose cellphones ring during live theater performances should be regarded and treated as criminals. Not as capital offenders, of course, though there have been moments — like the time an “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” ring tone broke a stark silence near the end of ... http://cellponsel.com/cellphone/theater-talkback-i-feel-your-cellphone-pain