Personal technology policies bending in some Brock...
 They’re everywhere. Buzzing from purses and pockets, beeping in backpacks and lockers – cell phones, iPods and other PDAs, or personal digital assistants, are ever present in area high schools.    But while their presence can be disruptive and distracting in classrooms, in some cases, they serve as cost-cutting learning tools and symbols of responsibility for students,  school officials say.

BlackBerry maker RIM buys Documents To Go's Data V...
Documents To Go got its start on Palm and is in a pitched battle with rival Quickoffice on iPhone. (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) We heard the rumor on Friday that BlackBerry-maker RIM snapped up Data Viz , makers of the popular productivity app Documents To Go , but it wasn't until Tuesday that RIM confirmed the purchase to CNET with a statement: RIM has acquired some of the ...

LG Encore available from AT&T...
AT&T has made the LG Encore feature phone available for sale. Originally posted at Dialed In

Viewpoints: Universities shouldn't blindly enlist ...
The forgotten cell phone rings. The student, startled, shuts it off and mutters to the annoyed instructor, "Sorry." Head slyly bowed, another student texts the location of her party tonight, while a third clicks away at a laptop keyboard, e-mailing or checking his Facebook account.

National Review: Big Labor's Power Grab...
With the "card-check" provision stalled in congress, union leaders have been forced to wait on the sidelines, hoping that President Obama's new appointee to the National Labor Relations Board will help them push their agenda in the coming months. But Mark Mix of the National Review argues that if the White House was really fair to employees, it would enable them to vote out unwanted unions

American Security Logistics Launches AT&T Connecte...
American Security Logistics and AT&T* today announced the availability of a wirelessly connected tracking device that will track the location and ongoing movement of cargo pallet shipments by sending data across AT&T's wireless network.

Powermonkey-eXplorer portable solar charger uses t...
Solar-powered outdoor gear seems all the rage these days, and with good reason. Harboring the useful power-generating abilities of the sun is an idea whose time has come, especially if out hiking, camping or anyplace where one can't just plug...

Verizon announces new prepaid data plans...
Verizon has announced new prepaid data plans for smartphones and feature phones. Originally posted at Dialed In

Week of 8-20-10...
Moving Sale. Saturday Aug. 21st. 7am-1pm 107 Polk St. Everything must go! Yard Sale Saturday 7-? 105 Polk Street. Furniture, Little Tik