Looking to climb the corporate ladder 140 characters at a time? General Motors and Southwest Airlines are looking for a few good Twitter and Facebook fanatics to help them sell more Buicks and cheap airline tickets. You can even drink beer while you brainstorm.
HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia Corp. announced Monday that some 14 million mobile phone chargers could be dangerous for users and said it will replace them free of charge.
Now, there's a way the super-careful can make their sensitive electronic data -- e-mails, photos, Facebook posts and other information -- self-destruct in 8 to 32 hours.
If technology has its way, getting old will get easier. That's the vibe running throughout the "idea house" for the elderly on display at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging's annual exposition at McCormick Place. The house displays groundbreaking technologies and design innovations that make it possible for older adults to remain independent and in their homes.
Of all the so-called iPhone killer phones since Apple's ubiquitous device was released, Verizon's Google-powered Droid comes closest to fitting the bill, and, even giving iPhone devotes pause for thought. While the iPhone and its App store are still king, the gap just got closed in a major way. But about that keyboard ...
Beware stolen merchandise being fenced online, especially in time for holiday bargain seekers, the National Retail Federation advises.
Verizon’s ubiquitous “iDon’t” commercial has been peppering TV for weeks now. It makes two conventional mistakes in advertising. It’s not clear that it’s an ad for the Verizon Droid phone, a remarkable new handset made by Motorola and the first phone to ship with Version 2.0 of the Google Android mobile OS. It’s clearly designed to compete against iPhone. It's a fine fone. But the ads are another story.
T-Mobile subscribers are having problems sending text messages and receiving phone calls. It's not known how widespread the service outage is or what caused it.
