August 27, 2003 articles

Trade your dorm room in for a BlackBerry

Aug 27 2003 - 08:23 AM ET | Unique
Wired reports on a Canadian university that is so pressed for on campus housing that it is willing to give a BlackBerry, laptop or a desktop PC to anyone willing to move off campus for at least a year. The...

Nokia debuts 2 new phones

Aug 27 2003 - 08:14 AM ET | Nokia
Nokia introduced two new phones at a simultaneous press events in Moscow, Russia and New Delhi, India. Nokia 1100 Nokia 1100 phone is a lower-end phone that's made to be portable. It weighs just 93 grams and sports anti-slip sides....

Camera phones not quite perfect

Aug 27 2003 - 12:59 AM ET | Camera
Forbes has a piece stating that camera phones aren't quite all they are made out to be. You know the commercials that feature smiling models who toss pictures back and forth before breakfast? According to Forbes it takes a lot...

Sen. Schumer talks cell capacity regulations

Aug 27 2003 - 12:45 AM ET | In The News
Thanks to the recent outages, senator Schumer is calling for an official policy/standard on power backups for cellular communications. He also wants companies to upgrade so they can handle more capacity (typically less than a quarter of its customers). Here's...

Virgin scores 550 times

Aug 27 2003 - 12:37 AM ET | Sprint Nextel, Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile has inked a deal with Sprint PCS to add its prepaid phones to some 550 Sprint PCS stores nationwide. This is a huge deal for the up-and-coming pre-paid company. Sprint PCS was one of the few companies that...