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The Economics of Being Cool -- and Frugal
Being frugal is chic these days. It'sexhilaratingto go to bed knowing that you're weird and out of step, and then burst into the kitchen the next morning as a dynamic, exciting, creative, green livin...
Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:42 PM
Inconveniences
I had a long work day. It started with a 7:15 a.m. departure for court in the awesome town of Red Wing. I love court appearances, and I love Red Wing. Unfortunately, today I only had time for the cou...
Posted on 10/4/11 at 8:47 PM
Rejoice techno-gadget lovers: iPhone market coming to North Dakota, western Minnesota
North Dakotans and rural Minnesotans will finally be able to purchase and use the iPhone sometime during the next year thanks to a transaction in which AT&T acquired the wireless assets of Ve...
Posted on 6/25/10 at 4:52 AM
Cell phone numbers going public?
I received an email this morning that sounds dire and scary, and is actually incorrect according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Some forwarded email chains are total scams, this one is just in...
Posted on 3/1/10 at 6:34 AM
Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.By Associated Press , May 14, 2013
FBI: Bombing suspect used cellphone before blast
The FBI says in an affidavit that the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was seen using a cellphone after placing a knapsack on the ground at an explosion site.By Associated Press , April 22, 2013
Network switch causes spotty coverage for some cellphone users
Complications in switching service networks are the cause for spotty cellphone coverage around and in parts of Jamestown. Some AT&T customers here have noticed a lack of service and limited reception after the merger between AT&T and Alltel. AT&T devices run on a different network than Verizon and customers are complaining because they were primarily roaming on the other carrier’s network, which AT&T devices do not work with, said Alex Carey, AT&T Corporate Communications for Minnesota and Northern Plains states, in an email.By Ben Rodgers , July 22, 2011
N.D. cell phone use outpaces landlines
FARGO — Mobile mania has surpassed another benchmark in the upper Great Plains. The North Dakota Public Service Commission now estimates more than a half-million wireless phones are in use across the state.By By Kristen M. Daum, Forum Communications Co. , July 15, 2011
Apple denies iPhones store user location
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. denied Wednesday that iPhones store a record of their users’ movements for up to a year and blamed privacy concerns partly on a misunderstanding.April 27, 2011
Phone tampering may be a prank
Was it an attempt at political espionage? Or just a third-rate prank? How high did it go? And what did the right wing know and when did they know it? In what some Democrats are calling the “Louisiana Watergate,” four young conservative activists — one of them a known political prankster — were arrested this week and accused of trying to tamper with the telephones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office.By By Michael Kunzelman and Brett J. Blackledge, The Associated Press , January 28, 2010
Colleges move away from old-school landline phones
By Ben Rodgers , December 01, 2009
Plea deal reached with company
Ramsey County prosecutor Lonnie Olson says he has reached a plea deal in the case against a cell phone refurbishing company that once operated in Devils Lake.November 14, 2009
CAP official in Arizona helped N.D. search
The Civil Air Patrol is crediting a captain in its Arizona Wing with helping find the bodies of three North Dakota college students who died when their vehicle plunged into a pond in a pasture.November 05, 2009
Official: 911 dispatchers can pinpoint calls
An official with the North Dakota Association of Counties says it's impossible to know whether authorities would have been able to find three Dickinson State University softball players faster had they called 911 on their cell phone rather than friends.November 05, 2009
Contacts vanish from Sidekick phones
Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data.October 13, 2009
Southwest N.D. phone customers lose service
More than 3,000 Qwest Communications customers in southwestern North Dakota lost long-distance service for about an hour, and also the ability the make 911 calls.June 17, 2009
Girl cited for cell phone photos
Police say a Bismarck teenager has been cited for being an unruly juvenile after her mother found the girl sent explicit pictures of herself to a boy through her cell phone.February 28, 2009
Letter to the editor: Person who returned phone appreciated
On Feb. 6 I unknowingly dropped my phone while getting out of my car. I work at a business on main street and I also park there.By Marilys Carter , February 18, 2009
Verizon Wireless offers to sell N.D. operations for deal
Verizon Wireless has offered to sell cellular operations in North Dakota, South Dakota and parts of 16 other states to win regulatory approval of its proposed purchase of Alltel Corp. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, Verizon said after preliminary discussions with the Justice Department, it is committed to divesting overlapping spectrum, operations and other assets in 85 markets, mostly in the Midwest, West and Southeast.By By Joelle Tessler, The Associated Press , July 25, 2008
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