August 2009 Archives
T-Mobile Dropped Calls Due to Station Fire, La Canda, La Crescenta & Nearby
T-Mobile communications equipment was damaged in the Station Fire, Monday. It should only cause minor reception issues for customers, reported the Pasadena Stars NewsThe repeater site equipment on Mt. Lukens that provides service to other local cell sites is down. Four local towers won't work withou…
Wireless Giant BlackBerry Stores in More Airports and Stations
Wireless Giant and InMotion Entertainment have joined together to develop and operate additional "BlackBerry from Wireless Giant" retail stores in new transportation centers, including major airports and rail stations across the United States. The stores will exclusively sell BlackBerry products and…
WiFi Users Plan to Buy Stuff and Travel – iPod/Phone Tops for Wi-Fi
JiWire released its Mobile Audience Insights Report that shows demographic and behavioral interests of Wi-Fi users. Wi-Fi users are rich, travel and buy a lot of tech stuff. The café Wi-Fi audience also reported that 38 percent make an online purchase during their visit and 77 percent are in …
GHSA Supports Ban on Texting While Driving in All States
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) supprts a ban texting behind the wheel for all drivers in all states. GHSA Members are appointed by their governors to lead state highway safety agencies.Texting while driving is very dangerous. It is worse than drinking while driving, according to Car…
Samsung Opens On-Samsung App Store On September 14
Samsung will launch a new on-device app store for Samsung Smartphone users on September 14th. The Samsung Application Store allows users to browse a variety of applications including games, references, social networking, e-books and health-related tools (e.g. pedometer, eye test, etc) that are easi…
Verizon Ready to Help with CA Fires: Free Call-Fowarding for Landlines
As we told you earlier today, as smoke fills the hills around us, wireless carriers are prepared for emergencies and act quickly. Verizon is providing wired phones, wireless broadband modems and mobile phones to help firefighters coordinate their attacks on the wildfires in Rancho Palos Verdes, th…
iPhone / BlackBerry(Storm,Bold, Curve, Pearl) Free Apps 2DAy: iDrive Lite Contact Backup
Talk about syncronycity, we just wrote an article about disaster tips and suggest contact backup and low and behold there is a free mobile app for backing up your contacts. And the iDrive service also allows you backup up to 2 Gigabytes of data from your computer for free. iDrive Lite installs…
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