In an emergency situation, communication is vital. Especially if you are in need of assistance or you are cut off from loved ones. Possibly the only thing worse than being hurt yourself, is not knowing if those you care about are safe. Right now we rely on our telephones to call for help or check [...]

In a world with hosted sharepoint, interactive videogames, bid management software and technology changing on a daily basis, it is no wonder that mobile communication devices are changing just as fast. It is amazing how far mobile communication has come over the years. Before we look to the future, let’s take a quick glimpse into [...]

Even as the internet hasn’t affected how journalists report the news, it has had a direct impact on daily circulation of newspapers in every community across the country. More and more businesses are going paperless with emails and virtual data rooms.  Newspapers were once the only source of news for most cities. Many major cities [...]

Jaguars, Cougars, Vipers, Stingrays; no I am not describing my family’s last visit to the zoo. These are all car names. Besides animals, car designers have taken their creation’s names from the skies (Aries, Equinox) and from maps (Dakota, Yukon). Much research and time is put into choosing names for cars because a strong intriguing [...]

Is it possible to communicate with the dead? I suppose that answer would depend on the belief in life after death. Since the beginning of time, virtually all civilizations have believed in some sort of afterlife. The belief that an afterlife exists has always gone hand in hand with the belief that communication between the [...]

When you think of pollution, you think of car emissions, aerosol sprays and similar things, right? Does your cell phone ever come to mind? Researchers say it should. Millions of cell phones are sold each year. Some are replacements for a broken unit; many are simply upgrades to the newest and most advanced model. The [...]

Japanese readers have been enjoying a new kind of novel since their invention in 2003. The proud creator of this first innovative phenomenon is a young writer named Yoshi who wrote and published the first cell phone novel. It was a story about a teenage prostitute in the city of Tokyo titled Deep Love. This [...]

Originally created to aid the hearing impaired communicate, text messaging has become one of the mostly widely used communication methods among all people. Since its conception in the early 90’s, popularity and text usage has grown tremendously. Each year, the amount of text messages being transmitted has grown from hundreds to thousands to now billions.

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Long gone are the Saturday evenings spent sitting around the dining room table dealing Uno cards or tallying Yahtzee scores. If you hand a board game to many kids today, they will probably spend twenty minutes trying to figure out where the USB ports are. I am not saying today’s kids are not smart. Believe [...]