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Americans, only a short while ago were all about shopping. But these days it is all about texting, also known as SMS addiction. Thanks to a sassy PR person, I am told that total number of text messages per month in the US exceeds a billion. Or as they 2COOL! In “All My Children’s Sexiest [...]

Looks like posting is going to be light for a little while as I clean out the stupid comment spam which basically killed the server and bogged down the system yesterday. Have been manually trying to kill the spam messages but I guess it is not working. Wondering about two things: switch to a more [...]

Catherine Zeta-Jones with her come hither looks has done a remarkable job for T-Mobile. The carrier of choice for us GSM types has managed to play the portability card quite well. Jones and a $40 a month plan seems to have attracted so many users to T-Mobile, that its network performance has taken a massive [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the bids for AT&T Wireless are finally making their way to the Washington state. NTT DoCoMo, of Japan has also made a big and has several backup strategies, the paper reports. NTT owns 17% of AT&T Wireless. The Journal says that AT&T has also received express interest from [...]

Reuters via Forbes.com is reporting that Alcatel, is planning to buy JDS Uniphase. That gets only one reaction from me: Huh! Only in May 2003, Alcatel after a disastrous foray in optical components universe decided to get rid of its Alcatel Optronics business and sold it to Avanex. This rumor is clearly the handiwork of [...]

Consider this a public service announcement - there is a high incidence of ATM Card scams going around and this is how they do it. The bastards are so slick that you would not even know that you have been hacked. And the banks, they are clueless as ever. Link Tip, WebSpiffy