| Is your absolutely free cell phone actually for free? | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:52:48 AM by Rose Martins | Is there really such a thing as an absolutely free cell phone? I'm not so sure. Most free cell phones come with hidden costs. 
The prepaid cell phone cards deduct higher fees per minute than regular cell phones, or cell phone service providers charge a monthly service fee, which actually covers the cost of the so called free cell phone.
Either way, you the customer, are paying for the cost of your absolutely free cell phone. All of the leading cell phone companies, such as Nokia and Nextel Sprint, offer these so called free cell phones. But let's not kid, there is not much in this world that is actually absolutely free.
And the free cell phone that usually comes as part of a prepaid cell phone package, usually means an outdated, not so popular phone. Another hidden cost is the sim card that is allows the cell phone to function, and is also supposedly absolutely free.
The cost of the cell phone's sim card is for sure included else where. Most cell phone service providers offer a limited number of ringtones available for download online, for free. These free ringtones are usually the less popular, not so recent songs or tunes.
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| | | Addicted to phones? Cell phone use becoming a major problem for some, expert says | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:57:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Turn off your cell phones and pagers. For most people, heeding these warnings in hospitals or at the movies is as simple as pressing a button. But for a growing number of people across the globe, the idea of being out of touch, even just for a 90-minute movie, is enough to induce anxiety, says a University of Florida psychologist who studies addictions to the Internet and other technologies. Although cellular phones and personal digital assistants such as the BlackBerry were created to make modern life more convenient, theyre actually beginning to interfere in the lives of users who dont know when to turn them off, says Lisa Merlo, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the UF College of Medicine. Its not so much talking on the phone thats typically the problem although that can have consequences too, Merlo said.... | |
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| | | IRAN: SPECIAL POLICE CORPS CHARGED WITH CONTROLLING CELL PHONES | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 12:58:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tehran, 4 Jan. (AKI) - A special police corps has been officially tasked with checking the cell phones of Iranians and in the past few days plain-clothes officials have started stopping passers-by in Iran's main cities to inspect their mobiles. All text messages and audio or video files considered 'illegal' are erased by the officials from this new corps. In the past few years, cell phones have reportedly become the main means to convey news which would never make it into the government-controlled Iranian media. News on scandals, jokes on Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other political leaders, information on meetings, political assemblies and rallies mainly circulate via cell phones. The crackdown on mobile phones follows measures in the past year to ban satellite television from Iranian homes, obscure over 100,000 internet websites and close the last daily considered relatively independent from the government, Shargh.... | |
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| | | Orb aims to beat YouTube at wireless Web video | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:58:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Privately held Orb Networks plans to offer Web videos from YouTube.com on mobile phones with a new software launch this week, well before the wildly popular Web site makes its own cell phone service available. More than 400,000 people have already downloaded Orb's previous software program that allows them to view their own digital media stored on a home computer, like photos, videos and music, on a mobile phone or wireless device. .... | |
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| | | Fort Bragg to enforce cell phone rules | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:56:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Beginning December 1st, the base will enforce a ban on the use of cell phones by drivers who don't use a hands-free device. Pope Air Force Base banned drivers' use of cell phones without hands-free devices in September 2005. Military police will begin issuing traffic citations with fines of up to $50 plus a $25 processing fee. In April 2005, the Defense Department told the Army, Navy and Air Force to rewrite traffic policies on cell phones. .... | |
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| | | Sun Microsystems makes Java software available free online | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:07:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | SAN FRANCISCO - Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said today that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet. The announcement represents one of the largest additions of computer code to the open-source community - and it marks a major shift for a company that had once fiercely protected the source code used in 3.8billion cell phones, supercomputers, medical devices and other gadgets. Santa Clara-based Sun said it is making nearly all of Java's source code - excluding small pockets of code that aren't owned by Sun - available under the GNU General Public License. The same type of license also covers the distribution of the core, or kernel, of the popular open-source operating system Linux, which competes against Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.... | |
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| | | Triathlon: Triathlon Fans Get Raceday Updates On Their Cell Phones At Ford Ironman 70.3 World Championship With The | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:07:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Florida Half Buzz follows the success of Kona Buzz, which chronicled the recent full Ironman championship in Kona, Hawaii. This is the kind of information you just wont get anywhere else. The athlete reporters know the inside scoop on all of the contenders. said Carri Bennet, CEO of ES Interactive. Theyre all poking fun at each other and themselvesits a blast! Getting those updates on your phone brings the details of the event to you, noted Tim Moxey, founder of nuun. Its pretty cool technology that allows fans to literally become part of the eventwere excited to help provide it to them absolutely free. About ES Interactive (ESI) -- Carri Bennet, founder and CEO of ESI, is an Ironman finisher and an avid fan of endurance sports. This passion led her to the concept of making the pros more accessible to the fans via the Internet and other interactive media technology.... | |
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| | | Cowboys Wrangle-Up Cell Phones on the Streets of Chicago for THE GREAT AMERICAN CELL PHONE ROUND UP on November 15, | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:05:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Teams of Cowboys will be wrangling up retired cell phones in downtown Chicago and passing out literature during the commute on November 15, America Recycles Day, as part of The Great American Cell Phone Round Up. "The goal of The Great American Cell Phone Round Up is to provide a light- hearted, fun way to show people how easy it is to recycle a retired cell phone," said Joe Farren, CTIA's director of public affairs. "The best part of this program is virtually everyone has one or two unused, retired cell phones that could be recycled. With greater than 130 million retired cell phones each year; we think it is vitally important that the cell phone industry provide an easy to use, free solution to safely recycle cell phones." The Great American Cell Phone Round Up will be held at several soon-to-be- announced locations throughout Chicago such as El stations, retail outlets and landmarks.... | |
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| | | Companies track gridlock via cell phones | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:09:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | Tracking traffic can be an expensive business. In some places, costly cameras and radar systems are mounted high above highways to watch traffic at strategic points. Transportation agencies also dig up roads to install sensors that monitor the flow. And helicopters roam the skies of the busiest cities, relaying information on the choked roadways to media outlets. .... | |
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| | | Mr. Watchdog | Giving up a cell? Wipe data | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:02:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | When J.B. Brinkenton's cell phone went on the fritz last month, she got a loaner from a SunCom store. The retired teacher also got phone numbers for Alysa, Candie, Nila, Micah, Max, Gidget and 63 others belonging to a Charlotte teenager who used the phone last.After calling a few numbers, Brinkenton said, most appeared to belong to the teen's young friends. She said a SunCom store representative told her to erase all the numbers herself. "If I were the moms of these kids, I'd be upset," Brinkenton said. "What if some pedophile got this phone? Look at these numbers he'd have." LOOKING INTO THIS SunCom employees are supposed to erase numbers, photos and text messages from phones turned into the company, spokeswoman Rose Cummings said. "It's our responsibility to protect our customers' information," she said.... | |
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| | | Cell phones give faithful reminder | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:09:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK - Michelle Williams goes to church, writes a journal and reads about spirituality, but lately relief from life's tough moments has arrived through her cell phone. It's not wireless conversation that soothes her, but inspirational quotes from speaker and author Michelle McKinney Hammond, delivered daily as text messages through a service called FaithMobile. "When I'm having a bad day and someone's getting on my nerves, I can just look at my cell phone and say 'Wow, I really needed that,'" said Williams, a state traffic safety consultant from DeKalb County outside Atlanta. From Christian rock ring tones and messages announcing Jewish holidays to handsets that point to Mecca and remind Muslims when to pray, the world of wireless content is increasingly getting in touch with its spiritual side.... | |
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