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Hundreds wait at stores for BlackBerry Storm

Posted: November 21st, 2008, 12:38pm EST

Hundreds of people lined up at Verizon Wireless stores on Friday to buy the BlackBerry Storm, the first touch-screen phone from Research In Motion that aims to compete with Apple's iPhone.
Phone workers peek at Obama's cell records

Posted: November 20th, 2008, 11:36pm EST

Verizon employees snuck a peek at President-elect Barack Obama's old cell phone records and will be reprimanded accordingly, the company said late Thursday.
Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bullet

Posted: November 20th, 2008, 6:07pm EST

A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn — hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart.
Nokia smartphones get IBM's Lotus Notes

Posted: November 20th, 2008, 11:07am EST

Nokia smartphones will be able to access IBM Lotus Notes corporate email starting from next month, the two firms said on Thursday, as the world's top handset maker battles Blackberry-maker RIM.
New BlackBerry is good iPhone challenger

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 11:59pm EST

Review: BlackBerry fans can rejoice: the Storm, Research In Motion’s first all-touchscreen Blackberry will make even iPhone users salivate just a little bit over some of the features of this very slick and sophisticated smartphone.
Cell phones will help navigate Disney parks

Posted: November 12th, 2008, 7:37pm EST

Starting next year, Disneyland visitors will be able to find their way about the park by cell phone — and like a ghost at Haunted Mansion, the mobile application could follow you home.
Cell phone shopping makes wallets redundant in Japan

Posted: November 11th, 2008, 12:02pm EST

The world's top firms such as Visa and Nokia are still mostly testing phone use for payments, but in Japan, more than 50 million, or about half of all cell phone users, already carry phones capable of serving as wallets.
Texting while driving is bad, doctors agree

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 5:38pm EST

Tapping out text messages on a cell phone while driving is dangerous, the American Medical Association agreed on Monday, and supported state legislation to ban it.
MetroPCS, Leap to offer free roaming

Posted: November 6th, 2008, 5:43pm EST

Regional cellular carriers MetroPCS Communications Inc. and Leap Wireless International Inc. have made a business out of offering cheap talk plans, but their limited service areas have kept them tiny compared to the major national carriers.
Apple, RIM gain in smartphone market

Posted: November 6th, 2008, 4:39pm EST

Surging demand for the latest iPhone and Blackberry models helped Apple and Research In Motion to win larger shares of the smartphone market in the third quarter at the expense of top vendor Nokia, market research firm Canalys said on Thursday.