It's a little strange seeing RIM adopt this less accurate fallback so late in the location game. To its credit, though, RIM emphasizes that program developers can look to cell-tower geolocation for quickly finding the user's basic whereabouts, and in truth it is a handy failsafe if GPS signals are blocked. BlackBerry-maker RIM announces a new feature for developers of location-based programs for BlackBerry. Interestingly, it's one we've seen many times before. How do you zero in on a location without using GPS? You use cell phone towers.

Reports that Microsoft was developing Office for iPad began circulating, courtesy of The Daily, earlier this year, Reporters at The Daily claimed a Microsoft representative demonstrated privately to them Word, Excel, and PowerPoint running on the iPad, Microsoft officials, at that time, tried to throw cold water on The Daily's claims, Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic, We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read, Discussion batroom iphone case threads can be closed at any time at our discretion..

The Milpitas, Calif.-based handheld maker has announced changes to pricing plans for its Palm.net wireless data service. Starting Monday, new customers or those who are renewing the $39.99 plan will see the service change from unlimited monthly access to 1MB of data transfer per month and 10 cents for each additional kilobyte. Subscribers can also get 1MB of data for $34.99 and 8 cents for each additional kilobyte if they agree to a one-year commitment. Subscribers who are already locked into a one-year contract will continue to get unlimited access at $39.99 until their contract ends. The service allows Palm's VII series and i705 devices to wirelessly access e-mail and the Web.

Your options, Let's get back to your parents and look at their options, batroom iphone case If your parents are on a tight budget and they don't use their phones very much, like my dad, then you could try a pay-as-you-go plan like the one I bought for my dad, Verizon has an offer that is similar, If you put $100 on the phone, you have a year to use all the money, But each call will cost 25 cents a minute, Text and picture messages will also be charged 20 cents and 25 cents, respectively, While the notion of a meter running while you talk may be too scary for some consumers, the reality is that it's much more cost-effective if you don't use a cell phone very much..

From this angle, the Asus Transformer Pad TF300 looks almost indistinguishable from the Transformer Prime. The TF300's plastic back has lots of thin grooves, but that doesn't really give it more grip. The Prime (on the left) is still the thin king. The TF300 (middle) is even thicker than the "now with slightly more girth" new iPad (right). Here's a good angle on the TF300's Micro-HDMI and microSD slots. The TF300 is still powered by an Nvidia Tegra 3 and, yes, it still melts faces. Relatively so.