Drugs, Lost Teen at Underground Rock Concert (Du Quoin Evening Call)
JACKSON COUNTY - Along with music, the Underground Sound Festival south of Murphysboro can boast at least six drug overdose cases, a juvenile lost in the woods, and a fight resulting in two aggravated battery charges....more...New iPhone has pluses and minuses (Eagle-Tribune Online)
I am happy to announce that I have gotten my hands on the year's most eagerly awaited "smartphone," the one that led thousands of consumers to get on waiting lists for its release and then crowded into stores when it went on the market: Verizon Wireless' BlackBerry 8830 World Phone....more... Family sues over 911 tragedy (Northwest Herald)
WOODSTOCK ? The family of a Capron motorcyclist who rescue workers could not find for hours filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against officials from two counties. The man had called 911 from his cell phone after he crashed in a cornfield near Harvard....more... June 30, 2006 (Boca Beacon)
If it seemed a little too quiet around the office or your home Thursday morning, it was. A contractor working in the Cape Haze area severed a fiber optic telephone line shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, leaving 4,000 customers without phone service in the area....more... Sprint Nextel Bid Rumor 'Groundless' (PC World via Yahoo! News)
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. Ltd. denied on Tuesday a local newspaper report that it is preparing a bid for Sprint Nextel Corp....more... Copper bandits cripple phones (Trinidad Express)
THOUSANDS of telephone users in South Trinidad have been without land line service for months and there is no guarantee when it will be restored....more... Cell C must ring up a target market (Independent Online)
Cellular operator should aim low to survive in a cut-throat environment, but will this be enough to nurse the company to financial health?...more... Sprint Nextel Bid Rumor 'Groundless' (PC World)
South Korea's SK Telecom denied reports that it is preparing a takeover bid for Sprint Nextel. ...more... Obopay raises $29m in third round funding (Finextra)
California-based mobile payments start-up Obopay has raised $29 million in a third round of funding that included Citi and Société Générale as new ......more... |