Tag: SERVICE

In the largest deal the wireless industry has seen since 2004, AT&T has agreed to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and stocks. In acquiring T-Mobile from parent company Deutsche Telekom, AT&T will pick up an extra 34 million wireless customers, and will provide service to about 43-percent of all U.S. cell phones, making it the country's largest network operator. At the end of ...

The next time you find yourself trying to get the attention of a flighty waitress at a crowded restaurant, you might want to put down your hand and pull out your cell phone. Some restaurants have begun implementing a program called 'TextMyFood,' a service that allows patrons to directly communicate with their servers via text message. With 'TextMyFood,' customers can place orders, ask questions, ...

Going to your therapist may no longer require that you get in your car, sit in a stuffy office, or even get out of your pajamas. That's because a new online service called Mentaline now provides users with instant access to therapists, psychologists and life coaches, who deliver their professional services entirely via webcam. [Ed. Note: Is Lisa Kudrow behind this?] According to TechCrunch, ...

After debuting last month at SXSW, Twitter's @anywhere micro-blogging service has now gone live, thus allowing all Web publishers to integrate the platform directly into third party sites. As Mashable reports, @anywhere will also feature embedded login/signup boxes, follow buttons and tweet boxes -- all in the hopes of engaging users outside the borders of Twitter's actual site. As Twitter says ...

Reaserch in Motion (RIM) just can't seem to catch a break. Just five short days after the BlackBerry Internet Service went down for several hours, North and South American users found themselves again without e-mail. This time, the outage lasted for nearly eight hours and, according to some reports, even caused problems for some European and Asian customers. In a statement e-mailed to us, RIM ...

The Sidekick data outage has passed the one-week mark and is quickly closing in on two. What was supposed to be a day or two of inconvenience for customers has turned into an epic public relations disaster for T-Mobile, Microsoft, Danger, and the very concept of cloud computing. Since the outage began last Friday, many users are still without access to personal data stored on Danger and ...

The same thing that sent the Hindenburg zeppelin skyward (and dramatically brought it down) could be the solution to providing cell phone coverage to rural areas across America, according to a Phoenix, Ariz.-based company that launches six-pound transmitters into the stratosphere with the help of hydrogen-filled balloons. According to Space Data Corporation's Jerry Knoblach, the best way to ...

Cell phones have come a long way in terms of features and styling, but the issue of battery life, or having enough of it, remains strong. Yes, you can keep your battery juiced up for days if you don't talk on the phone ever, but what's the use of that? And sure, you can carry your admittedly portable charger with you to work, but try taking it out with you for a night out on the town -- it's ...

If you were having trouble receiving e-mail on your BlackBerry this past weekend, you weren't alone. On Friday, users began reporting that messages were being received very late or not at all. For some, the problem had resolved itself by late Friday night, though for many the slowdown persisted through much of the weekend. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, or RIM, has blamed the outage on a ...

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As kids, if someone did something wrong or against the rules, we knew how to get justice: We told on them. But as adults, who are we supposed to run to in tears when someone cuts us off or our HMO screws us over? The police? No, the Internet. USA Today has compiled a great list of Web sites that let users "tattle" on just about anyone an anything. Nannies who mistreat kids, for example, are ...