Motorola may bow out of cellphones, aid Apple and rivals From Apple Insider Motorola is already said to be suffering, and in the fourth calendar quarter of 2007 reported a 38 percent drop in its mobile device sales compared to the same period a year ago -- a stark contrast to an industry widely agreed to be growing over time. The failure of the ROKR E1 music phone in both its awkward hardware and feature-limited iTunes software were reportedly frustrating enough to Apple head Steve Jobs that he launched an end-run around Motorola, discussing an Apple-made phone with...

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Patent Troll Patents...Cellphones From Hydrapinion The device also includes a camera and microphone for recording images and sound within the range of the device that can be wirelessly transmitted, either selectively or automatically to a remote telephone. Further, the device includes sensors for sensing unusual conditions that may also be transmitted to a remote telephone, together with the location of the device as determined by a GPS section of the device.

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Seniors conquer cellphones From Arizona Republic Learning speed dial and other phone features can be a matter of safety, while other people can be embarrassed by their lack of tech savvy, like not being able to turn off a ringing phone in church. "They say, 'Grandma, that's what it's for.' But I'm not going to stop in the middle of the road to answer the phone." Ben Chesley of AT&T teaches Jessica Sanchez-Jackson of Phoenix how to use a cellphone during a free clinic for seniors at the Salvation Army community center on Broadway Road in...

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Cellphones hit the shoals From Globe and Mail The cellphone industry sold 300 million handsets in the last three months of 2007, which includes Christmas sales, an increase of 11.6 per cent over the previous year. Telcos highly recommend to handset manufacturers certain features that will give them the highest profit margin, the handset makers create the phones, and the telcos then sell them. There is really only one telco large enough to sell the iPhone -Rogers Wireless, the only large Canadian provider that uses the GSM technology...

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Bring cellphone locator technology here: cop From Edmonton Sun "Calls to 911 from cellphones are not the same as making a call from a traditional wired phone (land line), which automatically provides the telephone number, name and the exact physical address," the association said in a statement. The association wants the government to compel wireless telephone service providers operating in Alberta "to collect a monthly Wireless 911 Call Answer Fee from its subscribers and remit those revenues to the municipalities operating 911 Public Safety Answering...

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