Cell phones in the air: Convenience or curse?
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Just when air travel seems to have become our national gripe, along comes a possibility to make us appreciate flight as we now know it: A cabin full of people talking, loudly and simultaneously, on their cell phones.
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Ziff Davis - Cell phones and other portable devices are ideal for on-the-go and emergency situations&#151;unless the battery's dead.
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Smart phones -- cellphones with a big screen, a keyboard and the ability to run add-on programs -- are not necessarily phones to the people who use them. Their versatility allows them to impersonate the other handheld devices you might otherwise carry around; in reality, any given smart phone may be...
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Experts wonder if enough people are willing to make the switch from traditional phones to talking through their computers.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio. Cell phones unstrung telecommunications. Wi-Fi liberated computer data.
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Your cell phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like.
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But are they a niche device for business travelers or a bombshell set to rattle the wireless industry?
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The question of cellphones for preteenagers and teenagers is rarely one of financial cost anymore. It is one of social value.
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Can Wi-Fi signals make you ill? Newshounds pore over the available literature, but miss something interesting about the claims
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Public chatter on mobile phones is annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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Until federal regulators issued a landmark ruling in 1968, Americans could not own the telephones in their homes, nor attach answering machines or other devices to them. Now, a growing number of academics and consumer activists say it's time to deliver a similar ground-breaking jolt to the cellphone industry, possibly triggering a new round of customer options and technical innovations to rival the one that produced faxes, modems and the Internet....
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By PETER SVENSSON  NEW YORK - Wouldn't it be great to have your own cellular tower at home? You'd always have a strong signal on your mobile phone, and you wouldn't be paying to use the carrier's network.
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Big media brands latch onto mobile advertising while cell phone operators are more cautious. Is tension between the two inevitable?
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Investor's Business Daily - Ever wonder how they squeeze so much electronic wizardry into those tiny cellular flip phones?
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Although mobile phones have long been a part of the business community, they are quietly becoming entrenched in personal lives.
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Airline travel has always been a welcome refuge from the incessant chatter of cellphone users, so it is sobering to hear that regulators are thinking of allowing the use of cellphones up in the friendly skies.
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An analyst rants Opinion Let me begin with a warning that am about to get on one of my hobby horses. This one has to do with the notion that modern wireless and mobile technology is largely about enabling people to become more mobile in the way they live and work, as if they were previously chained to one location and magically liberated by the latest gadgetry and connectivity. The notion seems to be that having access to email and other applications while mobile means that people are getting out and about more.â¦