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...hear 'de de de de deeeee' ever again," Paananen recalls. "I wanted to hear Van Halen's Jump, and I was willing to pay for it." The technology was there to program mobile phones to play pop tunes rather than electronic bleeps, so he tried to talk operators and handset makers into offering a selection of popular hits. But his pleas fell on deaf ears: "The biggest resistance was from the operators, who said, 'Ring tones, what's that?'" After almost a year of failed pitches, Paananen managed to convince Finnish operator Radiolinja that ring tones could help workers...
...business after all. Having bailed out of the crowded, pricey wireless sector in 2001, both BT and AT&T last week made it clear they want back in. Britain's largest residential telecom announced a deal with longtime rival Vodafone to offer the world's first fully converged handset that acts both as a mobile and as a fixed-line phone. BT's U.S. counterpart, AT&T, similarly announced an agreement with a big rival to offer AT&T-branded mobile services via the Sprint network. Why the rush back to wireless? That's where the growth...
...home? Here's one: it could save you money on your monthly telephone bill. That's because a technology called voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) lets you use your cable or DSL Internet connection to make cheap local and long-distance calls, all while using your regular home-phone handset. Previously offered mainly by small start-ups, VOIP has generated so much interest that long-distance giant AT&T began offering it this month...
...regard as spectacular. Not all the bombs took lives, though. Two similar devices were destroyed by police in controlled explosions. And thanks to a terrorist's mistake and a rescue worker's inadvertent discovery, the final bomb survived. It proved to be lucky 13 for the investigators. The Motorola handset and its internal identity, or SIM, card supplied the vital clues that led to the arrests on Saturday afternoon of five suspects--three Moroccans and two Indian nationals. The five were held in connection with illegal manipulation of the phone and its SIM card...
...phones. Bundled applications include the Real One video player and MightyPhone synching software for keeping your contacts and appointments up-to-date. The phone also supports more than 70 business applications designed for the Symbian operating system used on the 6620. Pricing will be set in March when the handset goes on sale. --By Anita Hamilton