Whether you got a shiny new iPhone for Christmas and need to break your contract, or you think you want to upgrade your cell phone service in 2009 you should check in with your carrier about their early-termination fees, the status of your contact, and any deals they might be running for the new year. (Honestly, I hope you checked the tiny print before you signed that dotted line!)
Consumer Reports notes one in seven survey respondents said "they were seriously considering a switch to a better carrier but were discouraged from doing so by penalties that can run as high as $200 per phone line." As we all know, termination fees can be a real bugaboo.
Top 10 Places We'll Show You That Google Can't! Ah, Google Maps. That street view function that's captured so many a crazy scene has raised security, political, and privacy hackles the world over. From refugee camps to British swimming pools the program's reach is pervasive.
Obama Hides His BlackBerry In a Cell Phone Holster President-elect Barack Obama was spotted in Hawaii this past weekend sporting his beloved BlackBerry 8830 World Edition Smartphone in a pretty geeky belt holster.
Welcome Mr. President: Inauguration iPhone App Use your iPhone to count down to the first big historical event of the year — President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration. The free 2009 Presidential Inauguration Guide has a count down to January 20, as well as a guide to Washington D.C., if you're lucky enough to be in town that day.
People to Power Times Square New Year's Party The spectacular Times Square New Year's Eve celebration is already going to be that much more entertaining this year with the bigger Times Square LED-covered ball, and now Duracell has announced that they will power the ball with batteries charged by people.
Now that the Olympics are long gone, and the world has its eyes off of China, the country's government has
returned to keeping an eye on what its 250 million Internet users can access. It appears China, which has the most web users in the world, only made superficial advances in freedom of the press during the games. In other words: censorship is back!
Cell Phones Become More Affordable For Cubans In a country where the average income is only $20 a month and personal computers cost around $800, access to technology for Cubans is something that's often restricted to the rich. Recently, Cuba's government owned telephone service provider Etecsa, decreased the cost of cell phone activation from $120 to about $65, almost a 50 percent decrease.
After an Australian couple defaulted on their $150,000 loan, and then failed to answer phone calls or emails and vanished from their home and workplaces, the lawyer for the mortgage provider
turned to the next obvious place — Facebook.
With a quick search, the lawyer found two people with the same birthdays and email addresses as the missing defendants. He now had some way to tell the couple that they lost their home!
The military's intelligence battalion might think
Twitter poses a danger, but two independent groups —
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and the Ad Council — have turned to social networking tools to help veterans connect with each other. The two groups have created an online community
exclusively for veterans of these most recent wars:
CommunityofVeterans.org.
Since veterans make up less than one percent of the population, they often feel isolated from others facing similar challenges.
Headaches that are too sharp, too long, too concentrated make my head spin (add vertigo to the list). Maybe it's my first migraine? Or very first tumor?
