Hop On to GPS Cell Phones With Hop 1883 (MobileMag) Skipping through the countryside, leaping over a bubbling brook, you can now hop into the world of portable navigation on the cheap thanks to the Hop 1883 GPS cell phone, available from Hop-On Wireless of California....more...Cash registers or alarm bells ringing for the telecoms industry? (The Jakarta Post) A year isn't much in the life of a nation. But in the marketplace, it can be a lifetime. In the telecommunications market in Indonesia much has happened in the last 12 months -- and will continue to happen -- to the advantage of the consumer....more... Coming- Global Mobile phone! (Deccan Herald) If nothing else, this ingenious melding of the cell phone and the Internet should strike fear into the hearts of the giant corporations that are currently bleeding travelers dry. This is how the last great overpriced pre-Internet racket will end: not with a bang, but with a SIM card....more... Philip G. Baker: A Message to the Cellular Companies from San Diego (HuffingtonPost) If you really want to help us in San Diego and elsewhere where emergencies may occur, don't prevent us from using VOIP on our phones....more... Personal Tech (Washington Post) The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro discusses his recent reviews and answers your personal tech questions. ...more... Regional Headlines (Prairie Star) BISMARCK, N.D. n A compromise has been reached on allowing interstate shipment of state-inspected meat and the provision will be included in the senate version of the farm bill, says Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson....more... Letters to the Editor (Berkeley Daily Planet) End the war?cut the purse strings?before we have another Vietnam on our hands. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis does not register on America?s consciousness....more... Not mincing words (Daily News) THE AMBASSADOR to Sri Lanka from the US in a recent speech says ?We Americans don?t mince words?. Hence without mincing words can he ask his own Republican Right Wing Government why American Security contractors (Mercenaries) making top dollar in Iraq are above the law?...more... |