Cell phones

Open Garden raises $2M to create crowdsourced mesh networks

Open Garden, a small San Francisco startup that is helping users create and share their own personal mesh networks for PCs, Macs and Android devices, has raised $2 million from assorted angels. Open Garden is helping promote the idea of social wireless sharing.

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Pro golfer doesn’t want to let cell phones play through

Golfer Phil Mickelson withdrew from The Memorial Tournament this weekend, and apparently cell phones –or people snapping pictures with them — were to blame. The bigger story is one of cell phones, etiquette and sporting events — something the Summer Olympics will bring to the fore.

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Soon cell towers will start following you

Intucell is working with an unnamed North American operator to build a new kind of self-aware cellular network. Its self-optimizing network technology will transform today’s static cellular grid into a network of constantly expanding and shrinking cells that follow customers through the network.

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India’s “missed call” mobile ecosystem

Imagine you want to use your cell phone to, say, order take-out food but you don’t want to pay for making the call, or a text message. The answer to that ultra-low cost question is India’s fascinating growth of the “missed call” ecosystem.

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Cellular smart grid scores a win

Put one on the board for the cellular smart grid. Utility Consumers Energy announced that it will work with SmartSynch to roll out cellular-based smart meters for 1.8 million customers.

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Windstream buys business phone company for $2.3 billion

Windstream, a Little Rock, Ark.-based phone and broadband company says it is buying PAETEC Holding Company of Fairport, N.Y. for $2.3 billion. On closing this deal, Windstream will have a bigger national footprint with a bigger fiber network to service the luractive business customers.

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PayNearMe Expands Payment Options to the Unbanked

Silicon Valley start-up PayNearMe is addressing the 1/4 of households that don’t use credit cards and today, it’s rolling out four new options that ramp up the number of things consumers can pay with using cash.

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Infographic: The Ultimate Cell Phone Plan Picker

Need help choosing a cell phone plan? It used to be easy but now that smartphone adoption is rising, there’s a wider wider range of considerations including available software applications, handset platforms, and the cost of a data connection. This guide should get you started.

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The Ultimate Cell Phone Plan Comparison

Last week, Verizon discounted their voice plans. AT&T came out its own cheaper offerings. The two were simply matching what Sprint and T-Mobile USA have already been offering — cheap voice. BillShrink put together a graphical over view of all the cellphone plans. Check it out.

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Fix Our Broken iPhones

It is indeed a wonderful little device, but you know all those little niggles we have about the iPhone? Like, the lack…

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Yahoo's Baby Steps to Phone 2.0

Champions of a more open Internet could take a small bit of cheer from Yahoo’s plans, unveiled today, to open up its…

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Google Talks Mylo

Sony’s new communicator device Mylo has a new friend – Google Talk. Mary Himinkool of GTalk team says that Sony Mylo will…

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