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Cell Phones News Archive18-Feb-2008Digitial switch to affect cell phones (The Shreveport Times) Midnight may mark the end of emergency cell phone service for at least 500 local seniors. Smart phones are fun ... but not for everyone (The Sentinel) Americans are greedy. It?s true. Just look at the latest in cell phone technology ? smart phones. Up for rethinking: Ban on cell phones in sports books (Las Vegas Sun) Mon, Feb 18, 2008 (2 a.m.) If you ever watch the end of a basketball game in a casino sports book and want to call your buddy with the result, don?t. At least not yet. State law has for a decade prohibited the use of cell phone and other electronic devices inside sports books. School turns tables, embraces cell phones (UPI) A high school in Saskatchewan, Canada, has turned the tables on traditional educators' thinking and encourages students to use cell phones in class. Analog cell service might be shut off soon (Rapid City Journal) The relatively few people who still have analog-only cell phones may be out of luck come February 19. South Side firm's technology puts marketing on cell phones (BizJournals) South Side-based tech startup Smash Technologies is preparing to launch a technology that brings marketing directly to mobile phones. More than 20 Million TV Phones Ship in Japan (PC World via Yahoo! News) Shipments of cell phones compatible with Japan's mobile digital TV service have surged to more than 20 million units in fewer than two years since launch, according to industry data released Wednesday. Cell phone may become traffic congestion tool (BizJournals) Cell phones, often said to worsen traffic conditions, may now become instrumental in helping Bay Area drivers avoid the region's worst freeway jams of the future. Cell software firm a la Mobile gets $6.75M (BizJournals) San Ramon's a la Mobile Inc., which develops cell phone software based on the Linux operating system, has dialed up $6.75 million in Series B financing from the Menlo Park venture capital firm Venrock. A la Mobile says it can cut in half the time handset makers take to bring new products to market by providing all the software that makes mobile phones work.
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