Unlike many other cell phone companies that have several calling plans, Alltel Wireless offers only three plans. Alltel relies on its National Freedom Plan to provide subscribers in most medium to large cities with coverage. The Greater Freedom plan is Alltel is offering to the casual user who does not do a lot of traveling or who is considering replacing their standard home phone with an Alltel cell phone.

04/04/08 - Convert any of your audio files to compact-sized WAV, MP3, MMF and AMR ringtones for your mobile phone.

I am sure you are all familiar now with the debacle that was the launch of BA Terminal 5 at Heathrow - essentially over 20,000 bags were/are "lost" (temporarily or otherwise) during the ensuing chaos, after the terminal opened - and a LOT of passengers clearly were/are not very happy about it! Silicon.com has aggregated a [...]

Anti-virus firm Panda Security is reporting that Adware accounted for the most malware infections in the first quarter of 2008 - and it predicts a rise in mobile phone viruses. Some other highlights include: viruses of note: SymbOS/Beselo and WinCE/InfoJack.A appearance of the first iPhone Trojan 90.34% of mobile malware targets the Symbian platform, 4.14% targets Windows Mobile, [...]

Orange has announced that it will integrate eBay on a range of it's Singature devices - the first jointly-branded app it will have offered. The app will allow Orange customers to manage bids, and also view new listings, via the Signature range homescreen. I imagine this is some kind of expanding widget, but details are scarce [...]

CellPhoneSoft has recently announced a new version of its quite popular UIQ utility - Swiss Manager Pro. Aside from the standard features that include task and file manager, as well as system information services, the new, version 1.7 also brings: Support for invoking functions from other applications (memory cleanup from within GDesk). Application setup command to configure [...]

Oxygen Software released a new version of its Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS smartphones to include support for Nokia E51 and Sony Ericsson W960i smartphones. Version 2.17 of the "better PC suite" also includes improved support for Nokia 5700, Nokia 6290 and Nokia N77, as well as other enhancements such as: Connectivity, Options. Added [...]

Leading Bluetooth accessory maker Parrot recently announced the launch of a website for mobile users. I'm not sure why it took them so long, considering the business they are in, but they are here now, and that's a good thing… I guess… Anyway, interested users/buyers can get "all things Parrot" from the new site — including [...]

Recently, Canada's Bell Mobility and Home Box Office (HBO) announced an exclusive partnership to deliver HBO programming to mobile phones. The newly launched on-demand service will bring full episodes of HBO series to subscribing clients, as well as ringtones, wallpapers and, soon, mobile games. Bell's HBO service includes access to programming such as Entourage, Flight of [...]

WiMAX will begin to take off over the 2009 to 2011 period, exceeding 47 million subscribers globally by 2013, according to a new analysis of the global opportunity for WiMAX 802.16e to deliver "local loop" broadband connectivity. A region by region analysis by Juniper Research found that there is a significant opportunity now for WiMAX as [...]

We've already covered the satellite radio kind of service, FlyTunes, in the past. Those that liked it, will be glad to know they've recently tripled its channel offerings from 50 to over 160 channels that cover all genres of music, as well as talk, sports and local weather. On the other hand, iPhone/iPod users which [...]