Further proof that numbers are fun: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, cellphone-only users are Hispanic males between 25 and 29 years old, live with people they are not related to in a rented house under the poverty line somewhere in the south. Also, those users have a prevalence for binge-drinking, are smokers and have been tested for HIV, but consider themselves to be healthy, which is good because they do not have any health insurance.
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Good to see the USA Today post a story last week about security concerns when using public Wi-Fi hotspots. Finally someone brings this issue up so those of us looking to surf the Web from a street corner or camping at a table in a coffee shop are informed. Oh, wait. It’s not 2004? It’s 2007? Never mind.
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Who says big corporations are not sensitive? Verizon Wireless is offering a “Don’t tase me, bro!” ringback tone that authentically captures the pleading of 21 year old University of Florida student Andrew Meyer as he was being “escorted” out of a speech being given by former presidential candidate and apparently still U.S. Senator John Kerry. We’re still waiting to see if Verizon Wireless posts the call between Sprint Nextel’s board of directors and former CEO Gary Forsee before letting him go.
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Props to Bell Mobility for cutting a customer’s cellphone bill from $85,000 to a more manageable $3,500. Seems the Canadian oil-field worker thought his $11 per month “unlimited” data plan meant that he would have access to unlimited data services, like using the mobile phone as a wireless modem to download movies to his computer. As the man’s father so succinctly put it to Reuters: “He’s working in the field sometimes, alone, in the shack. What to do? Drink vodka or go on the Internet?” Indeed.
Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.
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