Minneapolis airport police say controllers tried to contact the pilots of a wayward Northwest Airlines jetliner by radio, data message and cell phone after it failed to land as scheduled.

Federal officials are investigating how the San Diego-to-Minneapolis flight overshot the airport by 150 miles on Wednesday. The pilots have told authorities they were distracted by a heated conversation.

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Nokia, the world's largest maker of cell phones, is suing Apple in U.S. federal court, saying the iPhone uses patented wireless technologies.

Nokia Corp. claims the iPhone infringes on ten patents covering both phone calls and Wi-Fi access. It says 40 other phone manufacturers have licensed these patents from Nokia, but Apple has not.

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There are certain things you do not want to share with strangers. In my case it was a stream of highly personal text messages from my husband, sent during the early days of our relationship. Etched on my phones SIM card - but invisible on my current handset and thus forgotten - here they now are, displayed in all their brazen glory on a strangers computer screen.

What Is Stored on Your Cell Is Startling

US wireless carrier T-Mobile temporarily halted sales of the Sidekick mobile phone Monday after a server failure caused many customers to lose personal data such as contacts and calendar items.

Sidekick models were listed as temporarily out of stock on the T-Mobile website following the incident with Sidekick data services provider Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft.

T-Mobile and Microsoft-Danger apologized to customers for the data loss in a statement over the weekend.

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Here at Software Marketing Resource we're committed to bringing you new ways to sell your software, so we're thrilled to announce the launch of our newest software discount website
BoomerApp.

So, what makes BoomerApp unlike all the other software websites out there? We think a lot. Firstly we can offer software deals that are up to 100% off of the regular retail prices.

It all works with mail-in rebates. You pay the retail price up-front, and then print out the special rebate form. After you've posted it to one of our worldwide locations we'll send you your payment within two business days.

What's more, after you've made your purchase, you may be offered another software application which you can choose to get for free instead of redeeming your rebate, the choice is yours.

We're excited to feature some great software vendors to bring you some really excellent software, at prices lower than we've ever been able to get on our coupon software discount website BitsDuJour. The rebate deals only last one week so you'll need to act fast to make the most of them.

We couldn't put together BoomerApp on our own, so we've partnered with the best in the industry. FastSpring handles all the payments, and provides a next-generation e-commerce payment processing, merchandising, and fulfillment solution. Our partner Rebate Delivery handles all of our rebate processing, bridging the gap between online sales and traditional mail-in rebates.

The rebate deals go live today, so stop by BoomerApp.com or follow BoomerApp on Twitter

Walmart is teaming up with prepaid carrier TracFone to offer Straight Talk, a no-contract wireless service.

Users can choose between a $45 per month plan that offers unlimited calls, texts, and mobile Web access, or a $30 per month plan that provides 1,000 minutes, 1000 texts, and 30MB of mobile Web access.

NotePage is an eco-friendly business. In recent years, we have made a number of changes in an effort to become a more environmentally-friendly and conscientious business. Here are just a few of the things that NotePage has done in our effort to become a more green business... NotePage, Inc. Green Efforts

Pupils at French primary schools and middle schools could be banned from using mobile phones in school under draft legislation approved Thursday by the French Senate.

The measure, proposed by the government, is just one clause of an enormous piece of environmental legislation that must still be debated by the National Assembly before it has any chance of becoming law.

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Vonage is expanding its horizons beyond delivering VoIP over broadband Internet, and hoping to expand its customer base and revenue at the same time. The new app from Vonage allows Blackberry and iPhone users to place cheaper international calls from their mobile phones. It also highlights the shifting competitive landscape between previously separate technologies.

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With a computer or cell phone and an electronic tracking device, you can locate a missing pet, follow the path of a stolen car, find a skier buried in an avalanche and rescue a hiker lost in the woods.
So what about a child snatched by a stranger?

About 800,000 children are reported missing in the U.S. each year. The vast majority are runaways, followed by parental abductions, said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. About 58,000 children are kidnapped by strangers, and 99 percent of those come home fairly quickly, often victims of sexual abuse.

Then there are the approximately 115 children a year like Jaycee Dugard, who are snatched then murdered, ransomed or kept for several years.

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