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The I of the storm: iPhones, iPains, and iProblems

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The Apple iPhone: A call to competitors

It is not cheap by any means, but whenever you have something new come onto the market, it is not offered at a thrift-store price. Plus, you can't compare Apples to oranges. In this case, the appropriate comparis...

Treo 700w solves my smart phone woes

. I lay much of the responsibility for the poor design at the door of Cingular and its ODM partner, HTC. Windows Mobile 5 is what it is - a platform - and in its raw fo...

Wisconsin firm leads testing of alerts by cell phone

A Wisconsin telecommunications company has been enlisted to take some of that apprehension away. To address conce...

Elimination of phone tax tempered by paperwork

The good news is that a May 25 Uni...

Phone company plans statewide Internet service push

, formerly Wood County Telephone Company, serves about 28,000 customers. CEO Douglas Wenzlaff told reporters the company plans to expand into Green Bay...

PDS debuts managed smartphone service

"We've had IT managers tell us it's just too hard to deliver the right devices and keep them working, especially as more employees are allowed to have...

Cell-phone satisfaction stays low, says Consumer Reports

Less than half of cell-phone users really like the service they are getting, a Consumer Reports survey shows. The survey asked 50,000 people to recount experiences with static, "dead" zones, dropped calls and more, and ended up finding that cell-phone service is one of the lowest-ranked services nationwide in consumer's minds. And to top it off, almost a third of cell-phone users are ser...

Readers respond to Katrina Phone Project

The phones are...

Graduating class includes biotech networkers; cell-phone recycling

Congratulations to this year's graduating class including 20 students in the Master of Science in Biotechnology program. They worked nights and weekends in this two-year professional program to build up diverse business skills. Also: need something to do with your old cell phone? Recycle it with the UW-Madison police department. <a href="/me...

Fond du Lac County tracks cell phones in emergencies

Fond du Lac County can now pinpoint the locations of cell-phone users when they call 911, making it just the second county in Wisconsin to install the necessary equipment. The system has been in place for about six weeks and has already been field-tested, In one case, th...

Motorola's iRadio beams music through your cell phone

Watch out, iPod and Sirius Radio; here comes Motorola. The company introduced a way to listen to music from your personal collection or commercial-free Internet radio through your cell phone. You can play it on a variety of devices on your phone, in your car or on your home stereo and transition from one to the other without having to set up multiple systems. WTN's Mike Klein traveled to Arizon...

Will mobile phones go back to school?

That has some school administrators worried. Last week, in one example local to Silicon Valley, administrators at San Mateo Union High School District debated new policy to ban the use of...

UW-Madison technology to advance cell phones

MADISON - Working to help cell-phone users take advantage of the limitless minutes now included in many calling plans, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a device that can significantly improve the quality of the transmitted signal on even less battery power. "When you've been talking on a cell phone for a long time, you can feel how hot it gets," notes Zhenqiang "J...

The ABC's of telephone regulation in Wisconsin

MADISON, WI - You need a Doctorate in Acronyms to figure out what's happening these days on the business end of your telephone. Here's a short course in how to read the alphabet soup of government regulatory decisions and what the latest rulings may mean to your home or business: This is Wisconsin's largest local-service telephone company, serving about 70 percent of the sta...