“There are a number of gimmicks that cell phone service providers use to be successful in the market. Calling plan incentives and phone rebates are common, but we discuss how the phones themselves could be the most significant factor on the future of the market.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- IE and Firefox Share a Vulnerability @ Slashdot
- AMD A Ripe Target For Buyout? @ Slashdot
- China Treats Internet Addiction Very Seriously @ Slashdot
- Lock Down Vista with Parental Controls @ ExtremeTech
- “Nero Lite” and “Nero Micro”: smaller sometimes is better @ The Inquirer
- Corel guns for Google @ The Inquirer
- Microsoft probes IE 7, Vista bug reports @ CNET
- Flaws in tech support tools open PCs to attack @ CNET
- Fedora 7 Test 2 @ Phoronix
Cellphone junkies
[H]ard|OCP has listed several new tricks and toys we will be seeing in cell phones. From using BlueTooth enabled phones to let you pay for things, by hooking the cell up to your bank to the BlackJack which merges a PDA and a cellphone in a much more useful package than we have seen yet. Head over to get a look at what your phone will let you do in the not too distant future.