Cell Phones

The Cell Phone Handbook...

Cellular phones have gone from a “gee whiz” curiosity to an indispensable communications link for more than 224 million U.S. subscribers. Despite cell phones’ enormous popularity, it has been difficult to get reliable, objective information on which to base purchases and maximize performance. This bestseller is the bible of the exploding wireless telephone industry. It provides a solid understanding of...

Can I Have a Cell Phone for Hanukkah?: The Essenti...

How do you help your child choose between mandatory baseball practice and Hebrew school? How can you plan a birthday party (not to mention bar or bat mitzvah party!) for your child without sacrificing your values, sanity, and pocketbook? How can you keep peace on the homework homefront? And how do you deal with Santa envylet alone the entire month of December? As any modern Jewish parent knows, balancing family traditions...

Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn’t Be You...

How many electronic innovations have you dialed, watched, surfed, charged, listed to, booted up, commuted on, cooked with, and plugged in today? Consider your typical day: If youre like most people, it probably starts in front of your coffee maker and toaster, ends as you set the alarm on your cell phone, and involves no end of computers and gadgets, televisions and microwaves in between. Were being zapped: Today 84...

Dead Man’s Cell Phone...

Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 4f / Unit Set An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man-with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House and Eurydice. A work about how we memorialize the dead-and how...

185 Wireless Secrets: Unleash the Power of PDAs, C...

Do more than you ever thought possible with wireless technology! Packed with insider tips, tricks, timesavers, and workarounds, this unique guide shows you step by step how to make the most of todays most popular wireless networks and mobile wireless devices. From planning and setting up a wireless network, to using a media hub to enjoy your music and photo collections, to designing and downloading your own logo screens and...

The Cell Phone Reader (Digital Formations)...

The Cell Phone Reader offers a diverse, eclectic set of essays that examines how this rapidly evolving technology is shaping new media cultures, new forms of identity, and media-centered relationships. The contributors focus on a range of topics, from horror films to hip-hop, from religion to race, and draw examples from across the globe. The Cell Phone Reader provides a road map for both scholars and beginning students to...

24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the ...

Just as the automobile radically changed people’s lives at the beginning of the 20th century, so too has the revolution in online services (including blogging, podcasting, videogaming, shopping, and social networking) and cell-phone use changed our lives at the turn of the 21st century. In addition, many other services, activities, and devicesincluding the Palm Pilot, the BlackBerry, the iPod, digital cameras, and cell...

The Camera Phone Book: How to Shoot Like a Pro, Pr...

Marketing experts predict that by 2009, nearly 90% of all cell phones will contain a camera, as manufacturers race to create cheaper, easier-to-use models with more sophisticated cameras, more pixels, flash units and even multiple lenses. Already revolutionizing audiovisual communication, it’s a trend that will only grow more explosivelyand who better than National Geographic to create a how-to book aimed directly at...

Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday ...

Providing the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone culture and theory, this book is and clear and sophisticated overview of mobile telecommunications, putting the technology in historical and technical context. Interdisciplinary in its conceptual framework, Cell Phone Culture draws on a wide range of national, regional, and international examples, to carefully explore the new forms...

The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone’s Impa...

Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for “real time” coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens “text” to each other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving tens of...