If you're new to our site, please consider subscribing to our full RSS feed. Subscribe now, and you will get an offer that's only available to folks who read our feed! The compact direct fuel cell, DMFC, is a power generator which uses methanol for fuel and is currently being developed for mobile/ cell phones and [...]

When you spend about half a grand on a cell phone, I’m thinking . . . “you want to get your money’s worth.” Continue Reading Sphere: Related Content

If you’re into gadgets as much as I am, and you haven’t heard of SeV Clothing, or if you think you know all there is to know about the gadget world, you better just think again! SeV sells clothing that is both fashionable and functional. Continue Reading Sphere: Related Content

This is the second of a two-part series that we’ll post on Hearing Aid Compatibility for Cell Phones/ Wireless Telephones. We begin with discussion, including a short video, of “inductive coupling.” For Inductive Coupling Each handset manufacturer must offer to service providers at least two T3-rated handset models per digital air interface. In addition, manufacturers must [...]

Background Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. A communications assistant (CA) relays the call back and forth between the person with a hearing or speech disability and a voice telephone user. For example, a person with a hearing disability can communicate in text with the [...]

The Analog Cellular Sunset and Who Is Affected As of midnight on February 18, 2008, cellular telephone companies will not be required to provide analog service. While most wireless telephone users will not be affected by this transition (often called the “analog cellular sunset”), some users may be affected. In addition, the transition could affect some [...]

I know how silly this sounds, but I was listening to the radio today and the DJ made reference to a video he’d seen on YouTube.com. The video apparently showed how you could use cell phones to pop popcorn… Told you it sounded silly! Here we are, hours later and I couldn’t get it off [...]

This is the first of a two-part series that we’ll post on Hearing Aid Compatibility for Cell Phones/ Wireless Telephones. We begin by providing its legislative background and then proceed to a broader discussion, including a short video, of what exactly makes a cell phone “hearing aid compatible.” Quite interesting. Background The Hearing Aid Compatibility [...]

Some of you might wonder what junk faxes have to do with a site devoted to cell phone lookups, but let’s not forget that there are several different things that can be accomplished over telephone lines — one of which is sending unsolicited faxes to unsuspecting individuals. That’s where this post comes in. [...]

Are you one of those thousands of people who, like me, have been getting regular calls (cell phone, land line or otherwise) from an unknown number . . . and when you answer the phone, you hear a series of beeps indicating that it’it’s a fax machine trying to send a fax?? I’ve been bothered by [...]

With GPS technology now more commonplace in many new cell phones, that means that the location of anyone carrying a compatible cell phone can be accurately tracked at any time. The GPS, or Global Positioning System, tracks your geographical location by interpreting data from 3 or more satellites. Cell phone GPS can pinpoint the [...]

I don’t usually promote products or services on my blog, but Goog411 is pretty awesome and is such a money saver that I thought I’d tell others about it, for the benefit of those who don’t already know. Goog411 (which you can call from any cell phone at 1-800-GOOG-411) is a free directory assistance service [...]

I don’t normally do this, as those of you who read my blog well know, but I just finished reading an extremely interesting post on canceling your credit card. Seems it was written by this guy, Bob Rankin, who simply wanted to lessen his load (as I’m sure many of us do, these days) [...]

Apparently, our Canadian friends seem to “get it” … I found the above clip from CBC-TV’s “Cell Phone: The Ring Heard Around the World,” aired in Canada on April 3, in which Professor Paul Levinson talks about the intersection of the Obama, and the cell phone, revolutions . . . . Continue Reading Sphere: Related Content