Believe it or not, it's extremely easy to create custom notifications, alarms, and ringtones on the T-Mobile G1 Google phone! And doing it this way will allow your own custom sound files to show up in the same list as the pre-installed sounds!
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Articles on Cell PhonesBelieve it or not, it's extremely easy to create custom notifications, alarms, and ringtones on the T-Mobile G1 Google phone! And doing it this way will allow your own custom sound files to show up in the same list as the pre-installed sounds! Is TMobile down? It sure is! Countless T-Mobile customers were left without either cell phone or data network services today, as the T Mobile network went down around the United States. One of our most often-read articles is What to Do if you've Lost Your Cell Phone or Your Cell Phone is Stolen, which tells us that this is an issue for a lot of people. Among other things, the article advises that you be sure to have your cell phone provider turn your cell phone off if you believe it to be stolen. This is still good advice, but there is one situation in which you may not want to have it turned off right away, and that is the situation where the thief is using your cell phone to make and receive calls, and/or to send and receive text messages. PhoneSnoop is software developed for the Blackberry which allows you to turn any Blackberry into a snooping device. Much like Flexispy at least claims to do, you just load PhoneSnoop on any Blackberry, activate it, and then you can listen in on whatever is happening in the room in which the Blackberry is placed. Fix a wet cell phone? Not possible. Everyone knows that there is no wet cell phone fix. Or is there? A new product is claiming to help users to not only fix wet cell phones that have been dropped in water, but also to fix that wet iPod or other electronic device. Called the Bheestie Bag, it's a zip bag filled with tiny beads that draw moisture out of whatever you put into it, leaving your previously water-logged mobile phone, iPod, or other electronic device bone dry and, at least as often as not, functioning again. Users of the T-Mobile Sidekick have been without network coverage for as long as two days, with no relief in sight. Complaints started pouring into the Internet Patrol, as users found that the network was down, and they have no access to any data services (although they can still make telephone calls and some can send text messages - the Sidekick uses a data network provided by Danger, while phone calls and SMS still go out on T-Mobile's own network). Red Bull, the makers of Red Bull Energy Drink, are branching out - a lot. They are bringing online a line of Red Bull mobile phones - that's right, the Red Bull cell phone. Red Bull says that the Red Bull Mobile phone service will bring you "the latest handsets, competitive tariffs and a complete package of mobile communication features. Even more, it gives unlimited access to the world of Red Bull. Welcome to our playground." If you are thinking that your iPhone seems to be dropping an awful lot of calls, it's not all in your head. Or your calling area. iPhone users around the country have the same feeling, and now Apple has (perhaps unwittingly) confirmed it: in some areas the iPhone drops as much as 30% of all calls! It all started when Manoj Gupta brought his iPhone into the Apple store in the Soho area of New York City... The much-awaited Garmin Nuviphone G60 - a combination Garmin GPS Nuvi + cell phone with touchscreen - is going on sale this Monday (October 4th). The combination Nuvi GPS cell phone has been in the buzz stages for nearly two years. Unlike the almost after-thought GPS features of some smart cell phones, or even the somewhat more robust GPS features of some contemporary smartphones, the Garmin Nuvi phone is truly a full-featured Nuvi GPS and a full-featured touch screen cellphone. Now here's an interesting idea. Officials in several cities in Mexico have outfitted the cities' taxi drivers with government-provided pre-paid Grupo Iusacell cell phones, to be used to provide on-the-spot reporting of incidents such as accidents, fights, and crimes, as well as public hazards such as public lights being out, and water leaks. Dubbed the "Taxista Vigilante" program, by all accounts it is working exceedingly well. "Now Available - the Worlds First GPS Locator that Locates Your Child... Not Just the Device" touts the ad copy. The device being referred to is the Num8 children's wristwatch, by Lok8u (get it? "Locate You"), and it is a GPS watch that allows you to track your child wherever they are. Ah, the cell phone. That ubiquitous little device that so many drivers now take for granted - that kids tote to school (little Johnny may not be able to read, but boy can he text) - that everybody, absolutely everybody has. Including prisoners and inmates. And cell phones in jail and prison have become a huge problem. While much of the world yesterday heard or read about the results of the U.N. probe into the conflict in Gaza, and how the U.N. has proclaimed that both Israel and Hamas are guilty of war crimes, an interesting technological fact was offered by Israel in defense of the allegations: in response to the claim that Israel bombed suspected Palestinian strongholds without regard for civilian life, an Israeli spokesperson pointed out that Israel had warned residents of Gaza by sending them MMS messages warning of the impending attacks. Countless thousands across the country are without service this Labor Day Weekend as the Tmobile 3G and Edge data network which services the G1 Android phone went down, and remains down as of the time of this writing. A court in France - which does not have no-fault divorce, so absent an agreement to divorce you must prove that one of the spouses did something bad - has ruled that text messages can now be used as evidence of adultery. Blockbuster Video has announced that users will be able to watch thousands of movies from the Block buster catalog on their cell phones in the near future. Part of Blockbuster's On Demand service, Blockbuster says that compatible mobile phones will have "on-the-go download access to Block buster's digital library of thousands of current BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand movies." AT&T has amended the language of its Terms of Service (TOS) to prohibit AT&T's customers from participating in any class action lawsuits or class arbitrations against AT&T. David Molnar over at Ephermata had a great idea. His girlfriend was moving from Chicago to California, and he thought "Hey, let's track her stuff as the movers take it cross-country." He did it using a $99 iPhone and the "Find My iPhone" service included with Apple's Mobile Me, and it worked really well. So well, in fact, that he discovered that it's possible to track anyone using their own iPhone, and doing so is pretty trivial. If you thought that the bluetooth watch that works with your cell phone was cool, wait until you get a load of this! The LG GD910 Touchscreen Watch Phone is an actual cell phone watchphone! Yes, the Dick Tracy watch has become reality with this watch that has an integrated touchscreen cell phone! This is just about the coolest thing that we've seen in a long time! This device consists of two bluetooth handsets, which you connect to your cell phone - just as you would any other bluetooth device - and you instantly have extension handsets for your mobile phone! The technology, known as "cell fusion" phones, can ensure that you never miss a cell phone call in your house again! Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Leon Benson has a warning about your mobile phone use, and it's not about radiation going into your brain via your ear canal. Rather, it's about "cubital tunnel syndrome", otherwise known as "mobile elbow" or "cell phone elbow". Apple has just publicly copped to the fact that you can get a "small and quick electrical (static) shock from your ear buds while listening to iPod or iPhone." The problem is not specific to the Apple ear bud type of head phones (those headsets that fit into the opening of your ear canal), but rather is specific to iPod and iPhone, and other sorts of MP3 players, and can happen with any brand of earbud. Rumours of an Apple Media Pad - a cellular-enabled touch-screen device larger than an iPhone but smaller than a traditional laptop or tablet - are swirling. And it would seem that rumours of the Mac Media Pad are more than just rumours, as industry insiders confirm the imminant announcement of the Apple Media Pad (which may be or be the precursor to the much-awaited Apple Tablet), as well as that they are to be offered through Verizon, along with a Verizon iPhone light version. (Although it won't be called "iPhone Lite", it is rumoured to be a stripped-down version of the iPhone, modified to work on the Verizon CDMA network.) A massive Internet outage, loss of telephone service, and even 911 emergency service communications were the result of an intentional act of sabotage against five different fiber optic cables in the Silicon Valley Bay area of California today, according to authorities. Turn your cell phone into a wifi router with WM WIfi Router! No more trying to figure out how to tether your laptop with your mobile phone; now your phone can be a wireless access point for any wifi-enabled device, be it laptop, another phone, or even a desktop computer! With WM Wifi Router you can turn your cell phone into a wifi hotspot effortlessly, and it works on dozens of different mobile phones! A new study has found that a mind-boggling 20% of teens - one in every five - are engaging in 'sexting' - the act of sending nude pictures of themselves to others via cell phone. Oh goody. The anti-privacy folks at Flexi Spy, who brought you cell phone tapping software for Nokia 60, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones back in 2007, have just announced a new iPhone cellphone spying software version of FlexiSpy. Whee! Yes, it's true - we couldn't make up a story like this. A 14 year old Wauwatosa, Wisconsin girl has been arrested for disorderly conduct after refusing to stop texting during math class, and then hiding her cell phone among her buttocks and claiming she had no cell phone on her. The girl, whose name is being withheld, but whose parents are named Brian and Lynn, is a student at Wauwatosa East High School. Two giant communications satellites crashed over Siberia, Russia, earlier this week, sending debris flying. In addition to the physical fall-out from the sattelite crash, communications for the Iridium portable satellite phone - or "sat phone" - system which was serviced by one of the crashed satellites were disrupted. Exploding cellphones are not an urban legend. In fact, another exploding mobile phone battery has killed another man (yes really). The incident, which happened over the weekend in China, is the second time in a bit over a year that a cell phone battery has exploded and killed someone. The last time that a cell phone battery exploded and killed someone, the force of the blast broke their ribs. A new proposed Federal camera phone law would require all cell phone cameras to make a "click" sound when snapping a picture (to emulate the sound of a shutter snap), and would further require that there be no means of disabling the click sound. The proposed "Camera Phone Predator Alert Act", introduced by Republican Congressman Peter King, from New York, is presumably aimed at reducing the instances of upskirting, and of people surreptitiously using their cell phone to snap pictures of credit cards and other identity-stealing activity. In stark contrast to the United States, where mobile phones for kids seem routine, and cell phones designed for children are seeing increasing marketshare, the government of France has decided to ban cell phones for children. Here's a great way to save printer toner ink, and you don't even have to cut back on your printing to do it! Save toner, save money, and help save the environment! This eco-friendly green* font also puts green back in your wallet! (*And we don't mean green the color, we mean environmentally friendly!) Every day, dozens of people realize "Oh no, I've lost my cellphone!" A lost cellphone or a missing or stolen cellphone can be more than just an inconvience. Particularly these days, with email, text messages, and more on one's cell phone, losing a cell phone can be a big security issue. More than 2.5 trillion SMS text messages have been sent from cell phones worldwide this year. This means that text messaging brings in billions of dollars in revenue for the world’s four major cell phone carriers. In fact, it's estimated that SMS text messaging revenues could even top $165 billion by 2011. (SMS stands for "Short Message Service".) So, if the text messaging business is so lucrative, why have AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless doubled the pay-per-use-price for messages from 10 cents to 20 cents? It’s no surprise that today’s teens are more advanced than ever. Not only are today’s teens more advanced on an academic level and a technological level, but they are more advanced on a sexual level as well. Everything from the Internet to cell phones offer teens a perfect outlet to express themselves sexually. Unfortunately, these same outlets allow teens to exploit one another sexually, leading to what amounts to criminal activity without the teen ever realizing he or she has committed a crime. While a Microsoft Zune Phone has been rumoured for months, no less a reliable source than Barrons says that a Zune Phone will be out by the first week of January. The Zune Phone, rumoured to be the industry-whispered "Project Pink", will be unveiled at CES, say industry insiders. Inq Mobile has released the INQ1, which is being touted as "The Facebook Phone". That is because the Facebook Phone's functionality is actually built around Facebook, and other social networking. In essence, it's a social network device first while, oh yeah, it's also a mobile phone. A British doctor working in the Congo has saved the life of a teen by amputating his arm following instructions that were texted to him by a colleague back in the UK. A large number of people wind up here at the Internet Patrol site every week looking for ways to track their lost or stolen cell phone. Unfortunately, those phones are rarely recovered. Now, a new application for the Google phone changes all that! A woman whose husband sent a picture of himself, in a compromising position, to another woman, has turned to the online Apple community for help in confirming that her husband is cheating on her. A teenaged girl is facing felony child pornography charges after sending nude cell phone pix of herself to classmates. The teen, from (really, we couldn't make this up) Licking Valley High, was charged with, among other things, illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material (the cell phone pics), as well as possession of criminal tools. We get questions like "Where can i find free ringtones online?", "Where are the free mp3 ringtones?", and "How do I download free ringtones for my phone?" all the time. But those questions really should be "How can I safely download free cell phone ringtones?" or "Where are the safe free ringtone downloads?" What you need is free no catch ringtones! Where you get totally free ringtones, and there is no catch. Like, getting unauthorized charges on your cell phone ("free mobile ringtones" should mean free mobile ringtones)! Or getting spammed at your cell phone (you want cell phone ringtones, not cell phone spam)! The Los Angeles Metrolink train crash tragedy at Chatsworth which killed 25 and injured another 130 is being blamed on the engineer's text messaging SMS messages with a couple of teenage train enthusiasts, causing him to miss a critical red light. The engineer, Robert Sanchez, was among the 25 killed in the crash. Did you know that your iPhone is capturing and storing screen shots of everything you do? And while we can assume (and hope) that it deletes it as soon as it not longer needs the information, it could be relatively easy for forensics experts to uncover - essentially "undelete" - that information. The Condom ring tone has to be the ultimate in socially responsible ringtones. In a novel effort to make condoms and condom use more socially acceptable in India, the BBC World Service Trust has created the Condom ringtone free for anyone - anywhere in the world - to download. AT&T has announced the roll-out of their AT&T Navigator Global Edition. This truly global cell phone GPS system allows AT&T customers to use their GPS-enabled AT&T phones to navigate with GPS all around the world. A new free service has the answer to avoiding talking to people you really have to call, but would rather not actually talk to. It's called Slydial, and it deposits you directly into their voicemail, without their phone ever ringing. Is anyone else as surprised as am I that people were waiting in lines again - all night - to be the first to get an iPhone when the new 3G iPhone went on sale this morning? It happened, all over the United States. What the heck? This is a phone, after all - there are people in other countries who are waiting in line just to get some soup and bread! And people who just wanted to update their "old" iPhone to iPhone firmware version 2.0 got the white screen of death! Employees who read and send work email after hours - particularly using an employer-provided mobile device such as a Blackberry - may end up suing their employer for overtime hours incurred while performing work-related email tasks on the devices, outside of the course of the normal business day. Have you ever been hit (or even just threatened) with a cell phone service provider's early termination fee - that is a fee for early cancellation of your cellphone service? Held hostage by your cellular service provider because of exorbitant (spelled "extortionist") early termination fees and clauses? Check out these new proposed laws and lawsuits against AT&T (Cingular), Sprint / Nextel, Verizon, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Alltel, Qwest and others! Shocking news came to us this week, with the results of a Samsung Mobile survey showing that more than 6 out of 10 people asked for a preference stated that they'd text in their vote for the Presidential election this fall if the option were available to them. This is a review of the Verizon Glyde - the newest of Verizon Wireless cellphones - which some are calling the Verizon iPhone (and technically it's the Samsung u940, and conflated by some as the "Samsung Glyde"). The Glyde is perhaps one of the most eagerly anticipated new Verizon phones ever, and definitely the sexiest of Verizon cell phone models (and one of the sexiest Samsung cell phones as well). As a bonus, this Verizon Glyde review also includes a comparison of the Glyde and the Verizon Voyager, and we talk about tethering your laptop with the Verizon Glyde. Bottom line: You'll want to do the Verizon glide on over to your local Verizon Wireless store to get the Verizon Wireless Glyde! (Or for our friends who can't spell, that'd be the Verizon Wirless or the Verizon Wireles Glyde!) Currently we are testing the Verizon Voyager (the LG VX10000), and specifically we have been testing the Mobile Email program. And that's where the trouble started. Try as we might, we could not get the Mobile Email program to actually download email. It would always end up timing out, telling us "Communication error. Please try again later." This even though every other email program we tried had no problem downloading the email. Here's why. Chinese cellular providers China Mobile and China Unicom together have over 500 million active cell phone accounts, and recently more than 200 million of these users received a stream of unwanted and unwelcome advertisements as text messages - cell phone spam. Both cell phone providers and the spammers received a stern talking to from the Deputy Head of China's State Council Office for Rectifying Malpractice (yes, really). Revealing a statistic sure to make J.C. Penney, Sears, and every major mallwalk children's photographer shudder, a British survey has found that one out of every five families with children use their cell phone to take and send pictures of their just-born babies to family and friends within ten minutes of the child's birth. And that's not all! An equal number have created a social networking profile, such as on Facebook or MySpace, for their children! Today was an eventful day for mobile handheld device owners. First, the RIM Blackberry network went down - again - leaving thousands of Blackberry users in the dark. Then, it was announced that Microsoft was buying Palo Alto-based Danger, the company behind the Danger Hiptop - more popularly known as the Tmobile Sidekick. People across the country are reporting telephone calls coming from the numbers (623) 238-6228 and (408) 587-2116. These calls claim that your car warranty is expiring, but they are really scam artists trying to steal your personal information and identity. So if the number appearing on your cellphone screen is either (623) 238-6228 or (408) 587-2116, don't answer it! Other numbers generating these spam identity theft calls include (202) 552-1332, (702) 520-1105, (609) 948-0971 and (562) 289-8136. Cellular News is reporting that Apple have just launched a brand new iPhone, with double the memory capacity, at 16 gigabytes. The new iPhone is available through all outlets, including Apple stores and Apple online. All analog US cellular phones will stop working in just a few weeks, as US cellular services begin shutting down the analog cellphone networks, leaving all analog US cellphones dead in the water, and only digital cellphone networks in place. If you are reading this after February 2008, and your analog AT&T cellphones, Verizon cellphones, or Alltel cellphone doesn't work any more, this is the reason. Again, this will only affect analogue cell phones, so unless you have an analogue cell phone, you don't need to worry about it. Chalk up another to the growing number of Apple iPhone complaints. As if there weren't enough iPhone problems already, a new study has revealed that even experienced users of the Apple iPhone have more than twice as many errors when typing as do those using regular hard mobile qwerty keyboards, such as on a Blackberry. What's more, they don't bother correcting them nearly as much, either. A twenty-three year old Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for carrying child pornography on his cell phone. Kenneth Patrick Jeffries II will have spent more than 25% of his life in prison by the time he gets out. In what may be some very good news for parents, a survey of more than 1200 people has revealed that teenagers and twenty-somethings below the age of twenty-five would rather give up caffeine, chocolate, and even sex, before giving up their cell phone. The news that famed and beloved Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti had died this evening rocked the world. But what went almost unnoticed - in fact unknown for many - was that the news was broken not by a press conference or press release - not by telephone from his bedside - not by telegram - not even by email - but.. by SMS text message. Steve Jobs has taken the unusal step of offering a formal apology, in the form of an open letter on the Apple website, for dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 just weeks after the iPhone was released. The apology also includes an offer of a $100 credit for use at any Apple store. Get a full free month's trial of this awesome voice mail service that sends your voicemail as text to your email! It's a voice mail to text service that works with almost any cellphone service! The Simulscribe voice mail to email service allows your callers to leave voicemail just as they always do when they call your cell phone, however the voicemail is transcribed and sent to your email inbox as text, plus a .wav file is included so that you can listen to the message if you want to. And now, thanks to a special arrangement by the Internet Patrol with Simulscribe, you can try it free for a full month! Yahoo has just rolled out a brand new version of Yahoomail, which allows users to both send email to cell phones, and receive email from cell phones, through a text message like interface. The much ballyhooed launch of the iPhone turns out to have been much more of a flop than the long lines and all the hoopla in the press would lead you to believe. While there have been claims of as many as 500,000 iPhones sold in the first days, the reality is that during the first two days of the launch, only 146,000 iPhones were actually activated, and the numbers rapidly plummeted following the initial frenzy. An independent security research outfit has found a gaping security hole in the iPhone. They have found that someone needs only embed the correct malicious code on a web page, and when an iPhone visits the web page, it will essentially cooperate with any instruction given to it through the code. This website gives you cash for old cellphones! That's right, they will buy used cell phones, and give you cash for them! And they make it so easy, they even send you a free, postage-paid box to send your old cell phones back to them! Forget plain old mobile phone tracking. FlexiSpy is a cell phone tapping and spying software that, once slipped on to your cell phone, sends all of the data from your cell phone to the person spying on you. It also allows them to turn on your cell phone's microphone so that they can remotely listen in on what you are doing, and on your calls! It currently works with all Nokia 60, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones, and, according to FlexiSpy, more phones are being added all the time. Some of the most hardcore computer geeks - and those who simply can't live without full access to the Internet for more than 5 minutes - wanted to know this about the iPhone: is it possible to tether a laptop or other computer with the iPhone? In other words, is it possible to use the iPhone as a modem for one's computer? And the answer is... If you have a Sprint cellular phone and Sprint cell phone service, or are considering getting a cell phone fro Sprint, you'll want to know just how the Sprint phone company treats customers of their Sprint wireless phone service when they call Sprint PCS customer service. Because customers calling the Sprint customer service phone number too often are being terminated by the Sprint/Nextel service! A man in China has died after his Motorola cell phone exploded in his shirt pocket with such force that it broke his ribs, sending a shard of broken bone directly into his heart. Of all of the nifty mobile cell phone games we've seen, this one is really nifty! Taking its cue from the Wii, this game utilizes the camera in your cell phone to detect motion, and lets you aim and throw lawn darts, in 3D! Here is the hands-on Apple iPhone review (sometimes called the Cingular iPhone or the AT&T iPhone - there is no Verizon iPhone Verizon users, for you - so sorry!) they don't want you to see and you won't see in any of the other Apple iPhone reviews: it's the 7 bad things about the Apple iPhone that they don't want you to know. Thanks to our exclusive interview with Shawn King, of the Your Mac Life Show, who spent time up close and personal with the Apple iPhone / Cingular iPhone / AT&T iPhone a week before its release, and to some digging on our part, we bring you the 7 things about the iPhone that you'll never see in an Apple ad, because they don't want you to know about it. This has to be the ultimate in free call forwarding services. Grand Central, as part of their beta, is offering all of their "one number to ring them all" service completely free. Dog gadgets abound, including dog GPS, and an automatic feeder with a built-in webcam. You can also get dog sunglasses, a special doorbell door chime for your dog, an electronic dog day planner, and, I kid you not, a dog treadmill. Oh, and let's not forget the dog pedometer to go with that treadmill. What's better than absolutely free cell phones? How about this? Amazon will pay you to get the very same fabulous cell phone that we ourselves use! Now that is truly one of the best cell phone deals ever! Using your cell phone as a modem is perhaps the most overlooked of all Internet connection options. But a mobile phone Internet connection, whether as a tethered modem or, using bluetooth, a wireless cell phone Internet connection, is easy to set up, and with a laptop and cellphone you can check email and surf the web from anywhere, any time! Wow! Two great things happened here at TIP HQ this week! First, one of our websites, IndigNation.org got chosen as a Cool Site of the Day! Second, we just rolled out our new free Internet Patrol Mobile! Get the Internet Patrol on your cell phone free! Check that out here. Authorities in Pakistan and Afghanistan say that people are in a frenzy because of a rumour of deadly virus being transmitted by cell phone. The deadly cellphone virus rumor is being blamed on the Taliban. The cell phone stun gun is a stun gun that is made to look like a cell phone, only deliver a powerful, stunning charge instead of a telephone call. But just how safe is it to carry these things? Wow, that was fast! It was barely a week ago that we predicted the convergence of GPS and Internet on cell phones and it leading to location-based push advertising to your cell phone, and now Nokia has announced (well, leaked, really) that they plan to have full navigation GPS on all Nokia cell phones. Want to control your car over the Internet? It's possible now, thanks to the Internet-controlled car control system called the "Keplar Security System" just introduced by Inilex! Lock and unlock your car doors, start your car up (great for those cold winter mornings!), disable the engine, and even track your car, all over the Internet! Police are going to start checking the cell phone records of drivers who are involved in accidents. It's already happening in the U.K., and is being discussed in the U.S. in the context of both hearings on the proposed "Hang Up and Drive" Federal law, and by advocacy groups who advocate that cell phone records should be checked after a crash to see whether cell phone use may have contributed to the crash, just as we now check for alcohol. While complaints continue to roll in about cell phone spam from SMS text message spammers Mblox and their partners Dada Mobile, new complaints are starting to surface about new SMS spammers FunMobile, Freeze Mobile (a/k/a FreezeMob), Free Mobile and My Lifestyle. FunMobile may come through with the short code 99621, and Freezemob as short code 36726. mBlox, the company that bills itself as "The World's Largest Mobile Transaction Network", has just issued a press release exclaiming "mBlox Publishes Record Off-Portal SMS Transactions in 2006." Of course, as Internet Patrol readers know, countless people have received phone spam from mBlox and their partners DadaMobile and Nevis. In fact, there are more than 180 comments right here on the Internet Patrol complaining about mBlox, DadaMobile, and Nevis Mobile. A fire that started in a California man's pocket, putting him in the hospital with critical injuries, was at first blamed on the Nokia cell phone in his pocket. Both a Vallejo, California assistant fire chief and their fire investigator had declared publicly that the Nokia cell phone in the man's pocket had "malfunctioned." This is not the first fire blamed on a Nokia cell phone, yet Nokia staunchly claims "we didn't start the fire." It should come as no surprise at all - at least to any regular readers of the Internet Patrol - that Cisco has filed a lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone (the Apple cell phone) trademark. As we told you earlier, Cisco aquired the Linksys iPhone, along with the trademark, when Cisco aquired Linksys several years ago. Was Apple relying on an expectation of neighborly cooperation from fellow Silicon Valley giant Cisco when they knowingly chose to use Cisco's trademark for their own iPhone, announced this week? Or did they perhaps expect their now famous use of the letter "i" to help them carry the day on this one? As expected, Apple announced their iPhone - combination Apple cell phone and iPod - this week at Macworld. What wasn't expected was that they announced a product which won't be available for at least six months, and which may not even exist yet other than as a handful of iPhone proto-types. Here's what we think is going on. Now here's a big surprise - oh, wait, no it isn't - a recent study found that SMS (text messaging) has made it easier for people to lie. The long-awaited announcement by Apple of an iPhone - an Apple cell phone - is believed by many to be due in just a few short weeks. However news that Linksys, now a division of Cisco, has owned the iPhone brand for years has the market abuzz and agog. Does this mean a legal battle brewing between giants Cisco and Apple? Regardless, emotions run surprisingly high over such a seemingly small thing as a name and even the letter "i". RIM, the makers of the Blackberry phone, have sued Samsung, the makers of the Blackjack phone. How ironic. Did you know that your innocent-looking little cell phone can be used to listen in on your regular conversations - conversations which aren't even taking place on your cellphone but just in the room in which your cell phone is sitting - without you even knowing? Known as a "roving bug", this technology can be used for eavesdropping even when your mobile phone is turned off! Blackberry thumb is the name for a new malady afflicting thousands of Americans, and probably millions around the world, each day. Blackberry thumb is a repetitive stress injury to the thumb brought on by too much texting - typing on tiny keyboards on PDAs or cell phones. If you must do a lot of text entry on your handheld or cell phone, consider getting a folding bluetooth keyboard This is a side-by-side review and comparison of the Sidekick 3, the Treo, and the Cingular 8125. I just came off strenuously testing a Treo 650 and a Cingular 8125. Why? Because I was so discouraged when they finally added Bluetooth to the new Sidekick 3 but crippled it so that all you could use it for was headsets and xfering a vcard. Here are the results. Our article on Dada Mobile and Mblox, and how charges seem to mysteriously appear on peoples' cellphone bills, remains one of our most widely visited article, as so many people are searching every day for information about charges on their cell phone bills from Dada and Mblox. Today Dada Mobile wrote to us, wanting to set the record straight. T-Mobile has announced the debut of their unlimited wifi phone (think VOIP) service, called "Hotspot @Home". For only $20.00 per month, you can make unlimited Hotspot@Home calls from, well, your Hotspot at home, as well as from any Tmobile Hotspot location. T-Mobile is also selling two new handsets designed to work seamlessly with the service through their The Only Phone You Need website. The new Tmobile Dash phone is the newest device in the combined cellphone and PDA market. With built -in wifi and bluetooth as well as being a GSM phone, the T-mobile Dash allows you maximum connectivity in a mimimum-sized package. Nokia has launched a new wireless protocol called "Wibree". Wibree is similar to Bluetooth in that it allows wireless communication (not "wifi", which specifically refers to wireless internet communications) between two devices. However unlike Bluetooth, Wibree is designed for and aimed at smaller applications which require low power, such as watches, and chips in sports monitors such as pedometers. In fact, despite a lot of media coverage comparing Wibree to Bluetooth, Wibree is not only not intended to replace or compete with Bluetooth, Wibree is intended as an adjunct to Bluetooth. Remote XT is a new service which causes a stolen cell phone to emit a loud scream noise, and otherwise completely disables the cell phone. It also puts a text message on the screen which says "this phone is stolen". The only way to stop the screaming noise is to remove the battery, at which point, of course, the stolen phone is completely useless. The new T-Mobile MyFaves (as in "My Favorites") service allows you to have unlimited calls with any 5 numbers you designate - get this - even if they are not on the Tmobile network. That's pretty cool. Similar to the My Circle plan from Alltel, the TMobile MyFaves plan is much less expensive. A new line of Bluetooth enabled watches from both Fossil and Sony Ericsson are hitting the stores within the next few weeks. Both the Sony Ericsson Vanguard MBW-100 and the Fossil Caller ID FX6001 are able to detect and display data from your cell phone, alerting you to an incoming call via vibration, displaying the caller i.d. of the call, and allowing you to reject or accept the call. Shades of Dick Tracy! Now this is a fabulous theft and loss insurance for your phone, PDA or laptop! It's called StuffBak (because it helps you get your stuff back, get it?) and it's kind of like those microchipping i.d. services for pets, only it's for your portable electronic devices, such as your laptop, your PDA, and your cell phone! It's basically loss and theft insurance for your portables! And through a partnership with The Internet Patrol and StuffBak, you can get a 10% discount off their already incredibly reasonable pricing! The new T-Mobile Sidekick 3 (not Sidekick III, no Roman numerals here!) came out this week, and our ongoing testing has revealed that the Sidekick 3, despite being Edge capable, is not actually yet on an Edge network. And if you want it, it will cost you. Verizon Chaperone, T-Mobile kidConnect, and Disney Mobile all offer cell phones for kids, and cell service for children. But are they really necessarly, or just one more way to let parents feel better about having their kids out of their view, and not with care givers they trust. After "buying" a stolen Sidekick, Sashacristal8905 at AOL used the stolen Sidekick to log into her AIM account, and take pictures of herself. And then was surprised when she was tracked down, and threatens the rightful owner! So does her brother, WarriorPena84, who is an MP in the Army. Do you have a pink RAZR phone? A blue RAZR phone? Does the color of your RAZR phone really matter? And if you don't have one, get a free pink RAZR (or other color free RAZR) from Amazon! The Sprint Family Locator is a new service being offered by Sprint that allows you to track up to four family phones via their GPS coordinates. Applying new technology to an old profession - thievery - high-tech thiefs are now using regular old bluetooth-enabled phones to locate laptops to steal. PayPal Mobile has not yet been officially rolled out, but it is available, right now! Here are the details! The deadly MRSA SuperBug was just one pathogen found to be harbored on cell phones used by hospital staff. In a recent study, 98% of all cell phone used by hospital staff were found to be contaminated with serious pathogens. LocateCell.com and other Internet sites which were known to be selling consumers' private cell phone records have been either taken off line by action by the Federal Trade Commission, or have taken themselves offline after seeing the handwriting on the wall. The most recent outbreak of violence connected to the Danish publication of what Muslims consider to be a blasphemus cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed was provoked by rumours spread by SMS text messages. The TeleSpy motion detector phone is like something out of James Bond, only in your home! Haven't you always wanted a motion detecting telephone? T-Mobile has sued cell phone records broker LocateCell.com because your - yes, your - cell phone records are more likely than not being made available for sale, without anyone's permission. Blackberry maker Research in Motion, also known as RIM, has suffered another blow in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by patent-holder NTP. As the walls close in on RIM, an injunction may be imminent. Mblox is back in the phone spam limelight, this time as the front man for company Dadamobile, targeting Cingular, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile users. DadaMobile is also known by their short code, 63232. Daniel Thurman was been caught in the act of upskirting, and now you can see the picture! Moral of this story? If you're going to up skirt (and please don't upskirt, but if you are going to up skirt), don't upskirt where there are security cameras! It turns out that the Sony Walkman w600i isn't just another pretty MP3 playing cell phone. It's a great cell phone, even if you choose never to use its MP3 playing capability. And it has a built in FM radio that rocks! If you thought that SMS text messages were primarily the domain of teenagers who seem to speak in electronic tongues, using l33t speak, think again. Downloading the Crazy Frog ringtone lead to text message spam being sent to the user's cell phone from Crazy Frog ringtone creator Jamba. Now Jamba's service provider, mBlox, has been fined for Jamba's wrongdoing. PetsMobility is rolling out their PetCell cell phone for dogs, along with GeoFence, remote pet temperature sensing, and even a dog-mounted minicam. The PetCell cellphone for dogs will be hitting stores soon. Proving once again that RSS is a wave of the future, Yahoo is offering RSS by SMS alerts! The next time you see free cellphones or cheap unlocked cellphones on eBay, you may want to wonder where they came from! They may quite literally be crap cellphones! The cell phone vending machine has become a reality with the introduction of the VodaPhone QuickPhone Kiosk. The Toy is a Bluetooth vibrator which is worn internally and activated by SMS messages sent to it by someone's cell phone. Free online multiplayer games are coming to a cell phone near you! Sudoku puzzles are now available to Verizon Wireless subscribers over their cell phones! Cingular Wireless is providing customers with Cingular email access to their AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts through their existing cell phones. A free music video made entirely with cell phones is thought to be a first, and was filmed by the Presidents of the United States for their hit single "Some Postman". Free ringtones or pay-for-play ringtones, either way, ringtone downloads have surpassed music downloads for many bands, and now account for more than 10% of the global music market! Cell phone tracking via GPS and location privacy is starting to emerge as a big issue, especially with more GPS enabled cell phones on the market. e911 rules require that your cell phone transmit your location data when you make a 911 call. But some people are finding that their GPS cell phones are transmitting their location all the time. Tufone and MobileLime allow you to make international VoIP calls from your cell phone, and to use your cellular phone in place of your credit card or debit card. A cell phone repairman has been busted for selling home sex videos which he found on his customers' cell phones. Pet Phone, like PetsCell, is a new device intended to allow you to communicate with and, to some extent, tend your pet remotely. However unlike PetCell, which is a cell phone for pets, Pet Phone allows you to remotely feed your pet, using just your cell phone. The Apple rocker phone, as some are calling the new iPhone, and the iPod Nano, were announced this week by Apple. Where the ROKR based iPhone (some are calling it ROCKR or even ROCKER, but it's actually "ROKR") is indeed a rocker phone, the new iPod Nano is more like an executive iPod. TeenArriveAlive and CarChip are technologies designed to keep your teen safe behind the wheel by allowing you to remotely monitor their every driving move. Using GPS location in one case, and inviting strangers to report on the child's driving in another, TeenArriveAlive and CarChip are sure to be controversial. The Wherify Wherifone offers a simple pre-programmed cell phone with a built-in GPS locator, so that you can keep track of your child, grandmother, or employee. Motorola ROKR phones are being confirmed as the new iTunes phones, sources say. Pictures, if accurate, show that the iTunes phone even sports the iPods scroll wheel. Ring-back advertising is sure to annoy your friends and colleagues when they call you and instead of hearing your cell phone ring, they get Perceptive Impression's ring-back spam, brought to you by Promotel, Inc.. Danny Aquino acquired John Clennan's camera phone illegally - then used the phone to take pictures of himself, which were stored, along with Aquino's email address, in Clennan's account. Oops. Where Clennan found them. Double oops. Cellular phones get a power boost from a hamster and his wheel, as a British teenager invents the first recorded hamster-powered cellular phone charger. Bluecasting says that what they do is not spamming, because you asked for it. The Internet security industry is taking notice, and they say that it's dangerous. Cellular phones which track children and censor the content they receive are being introduced by Motorola. Welcome to 1984, kids. Motorola and Big Momma are watching you. Bluecasting has been accused of Bluetooth spamming, and tries to explain why what they do is different. Here's a pretty nifty website if you're curious about from where those telephone calls are really originating. It's called Fone Finder. The way that Fone Finder works is that you can enter any telephone number, anywhere in the world (if you are entering ... Many people and organizations are opposed to the proposed merger of Verizon and MCI, believeing that it would create a monopoly of unprecedented proportions and power. One of the largest state associations of ISPs, the California ISP Association (CISPA) testified before the ... How would you like to be the lawyer who is known for defending a man on charges of upskirting? You may recall that upskirting and downblousing are the terms used for taking surreptitious pictures of people, in various states of undress, or under their ... In case you haven't heard, Sony Ericsson has recently announced their line of Walkman Phones (cellphones) including both the 'candy bar' (non-flip, buttons on the front) style w800, and the swivel version (the top swivels up to reveal the keypad) w600. They ... Call it what you like, the act of transmitting a message, image, sound, or any other data, to someone's Bluetooth device via that Bluetooth, without their permission, is spamming - Bluespamming to be precise - pure and simple. (It's also Bluejacking.) However, ... Aunty has had several people ask her recently what "Bluejacking" is. Bluejacking is really just another name for Bluespam, or for what the Car Whisperer does. Wikipedia defines "Bluejacking" as "the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile ... Ok, now convergence isn't anything new. Heck, it was going on way before every man, woman and child was carrying a portable device (see here for my rant about cell phones for children). Witness, for example, the fact that I ... Cellular phones for children? What won't they think of next? When you buy one of these cellular phones for your child, and you know that you will, think about yourself at that age, and whether you would have needed one, and how it would have changed your childhood if you'd had one. It had to happen. With pay-per-jolly phone centers, adult-content Internet sites, and all of the other services to which those of a mind can avail themselves, it's only surprising that it took someone this long to launch it: the mobile porn ... Meet the Car Whisperer. Aunty told you it could happen. Remember the BlueSniper "Rifle" which could sniff out and Bluejack Bluetooth devices up to a half-mile away? And the Bluetooth Bluespam being sent to movie-goer's phones? [Oh sure, ... While consumers, and indeed the online security industry, have typically not paid much mind to warnings of nasties being sent to or through a Bluetooh device, experts are warning that this needs to change. Case in point: the newly discovered Doombot.A, ... Ok, now admit it. How many of you set ringtones not for people you like, and whose call you want to be sure to answer, but for people whom you don't like, and whose call you want to be sure to avoid? For ... A just-released study shows that nearly 90% of all teenagers are now online, and use email and other Internet programs on a regular basis. However, they also see email as something you use with old people, like parents and teachers. The method of choice for communication with friends is instant messenger. If you go to a movie in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles, that vibration you feel in your pocket may not be someone trying to pick your pocket (or, hey, something else) but may be a bluetooth promotional kiosk in the ... Even though they can serve such legitimate purposes as preventing cellular eavesdropping, cell phone jammers have always been controversial, and in fact cellphone jammers are illegal in the United States, where, according to the FCC, "The operation of transmitters designed to jam or ... Nobody is exactly sure exactly why, but cell phone access has been intentionally turned off in the four major tunnels servicing New York City since the London terror bombings last week. The affected tunnels include the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, the ... Here's an interesting new service! Imagine that you are driving along, listening to the radio (you guys do remember that classic antique, the car radio, right?) And a song comes on that you really like. Or that really annoys your ... Have you heard about "Dog Poop Girl"? No, she's not some new style superhero, although I do believe that her partner, Dog Poop Man, has made an appearance on "Whose Line Is It Anyways?" (couldn't you just watch Ryan Stiles and Colin ... As if people don't have enough to worry about what with social security number and credit card information being compromised and brokered right and left, it turns out that there is a thriving business in selling cell phone records. Your cell phone ... In a twist of irony, perhaps dichotomy (or perhaps both), the widespread usage of cell phones has turned out to be both a boon and a bane in the hours immediately following the terrorist attacks and explosions in London earlier today. As might be ... Sprint and Disney have announced today that Sprint will provide the underlying service for Disney's newest offering: Disney Mobile. Disney Mobile is a cellular communication service designed to meet the "unique communications needs of families." What, they've figured out a ... Ok, forget drinking and carrying nude pictures of yourself on your cell phone. There is something even more stupid that you can do while drinking, with a cell phone. Drunk dialing, or drunk texting (text messaging) on your cell phone. Flexible Digital Music Platform Designed For All Mobile Carriers, Handsets from Multiple Manufacturers and PC Interoperability LOS ANGELES, CA, and STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (June 15, 2005) - Napster, the biggest brand in digital music, and Ericsson, the world's leading telecommunications supplier, announced today a ... How many times have you parked at a parking meter, only to find yourself on your hands and knees under the front seat of the car, frantically searching for enough change to fill the meter? Or worse, discovering that you had no ... Ah, a fresh entry in our "how to get yourself into trouble with your cell phone" archives, along with videoing yourself having sex and having it turn up in porn shops, and the guy denying a crime involving an AK47 just as his cell phone displayed a photo of him... holding the AK47, and, of course, the ubiquitous upskirting and downblousing, A new service is offering celebrity mugshots to download as wallpaper for your cellphone. Who wouldn't want to take a call to Carmen Electra, Yasmine Bleeth, or Anna Nicole Smith's smiling face? Well, ok, maybe they aren't exactly smiling as, ... SAN FRANCISCO, May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Is there a link between cell phones and brain tumors? Over the past 15 years, there has been growing concern about this possibility. Part of this concern stems from the fact that there are over one billion cell ... GPS Goes Cellular for Off-Road Adventures SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- You know about Global Positioning System (GPS) in vehicles. You have a cell phone. Now your cell phone can use GPS to guide you through the great outdoors. ... ATLANTA, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, Cingular Wireless customers can receive Wireless AMBER Alerts(TM) through text messages on their cell phones. Cingular and others in the wireless industry have joined with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC) to distribute Alerts to consumers ... A brand new law in Chicago makes it illegal to hold and use a cell phone while driving. The new law permits drivers to use headsets and other hands-free devices, but bans driving while holding a cell phone in your hand. ... Never miss a show again! You can take it with you! Internet tv, and even cellphone television, are now a reality! Introducing OMN (Open Media Network) for the Internet, MobiTV for your cellphone! Wow! Cellevision! Aunty has ... Aunty's article about Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Dissing Verizon Wireless Customers: "The Customer Has Come to Expect So Much" has generated a lot of reader feedback, and continues to do so. Here are some of the things you've had to say: It would ... Yes, you read that right! Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II (a/k/a the Danger Hiptop) for free! Actually it's better than free! Believe it or not, right now, after rebates, you will make $50.00 when you buy a T-Mobile Sidekick II ... Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg obviously hasn't read How to Win Friends and Influence People, and clearly has a thing or two to learn about customer service and public relations. In a recently published interview he actually derided Verizon Wireless customers who want ... Ok, it's time to fess up. How many times have you used your cell phone while also using the loo? Not willing to admit to that? Ok, how many time have you had your cell phone with you in the ... With all the Internet nasties now available for all Internet-connected devices, Aunty thought that she'd also tell you about an Internet goody. MSPot is offering MSpot Radio, which is a service which delivers radio broadcast to your Internet-connected cellular phone! ... It came from the Internet and, some say, is going to destroy modern civilization as we know it. No, it's not spam. It's Netspeak. Also known in some circles as "L33t speak". Of course, not all people think ... The Bluetooth robot camera, controlled by your Bluetooth phone, is here! Forget about upskirting or videoing yourself with your camera phone while having sex, now you can send your new Bluetooth robot phone camera to do the job! Dubbed ROB-1 by its maker, ... T-Mobile Sidekick users across the country are suffering a Danger network outage which is leaving their Sidekicks unable to communicate across the Danger data network, rendering the T-Mobile Sidekicks just glorified T-Mobile telephones. The Danger network outage, which started yesterday, shows no ... Voipullar? What is that? Well, take VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and combine it with a handheld Internet-able device such as a PDA or a smart phone, and what do you get? What some people are now referring to ... Remember that guy who used his camera phone to make a video of himself having sex with his girlfriend, (and can you imagine the logistics involved?), only to have the video show up in the corner porn shop, and on an Internet auction ... Can't reach Hotmail? Hotmail experienced a service outage this week, as countless Hotmail.com customers were unable to access their email due to a server going down. Yes, it's true. During the time that the Tmobile system supporting the Tmobile Sidekick was hacked by Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, who just pleaded guilty for the Tmobile hacking, one of the accounts to which he had access was none other than ... Just how stupid do you have to be (or how badly do you have to want to win an election, although the two apparently aren't mutually exclusive) to send spam to thousands of your constituents? To their cell phones. Between midnight and four in the ... Here's an interesting scenario: Someone somehow manages to get your credit card number (of course you would never fall for a phisher's bait... your virus, spyware and firewall software are all up-to-date... you don't leave your card lying around... and who uses ... The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its CAN-SPAM responsibilities, has published a list of domains in an effort to cut down on spam to cellular telephones. However, there seems to be some confusion as to what exactly the list is, and its intended ... Anti-virus leader Trend Micro has announced that they are offering a free virus and spam checker for mobile phones. With more and more people carrying an almost dizzying array of increasingly sophisticated "Smart Phones", many analysts see cell phones as the next frontier for ... Forget upskirting and downblousing. What do you call it when you take a video of yourself during an..um...intimate moment - with a camera phone for chrissakes? How about this one: what do you call it when you take a video of ... Aren't those new camera phones so fun? Some of them are so tiny and cute! You can put them in your pocket, take them everywhere, take pictures of people without them even realizing... Whoops, hold on, because that latter can ... The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Motorola has just filed a patent on what has got to be the ultimate pay-per-click mechanism: beaming advertisements to celphones and then using geolocation to track when the celphone user has walked into an advertised merchant's ... The BBC is reporting that people in Norway can now watch television on their cell phones. According to the BBC: "The service from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation allows people to watch television on their mobiles 24 hours a day." (Don't they get tired?) Aunty wants ... |
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