Airlines Want to Allow Cell Phone Use In Flight

Ben Stein (actor, host of "Win Ben Stein's Money") complains about efforts by the airlines to get the government to end the ban on passengers using cell phones in flight.

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Web 2.0 Creates the Industry of Cool

Erika Brown, toughing it out with Forbes in their Silicon Valley Bureau, reminds us that in the past 18 months, companies that enable podcasting, blogging, Web video and social networking have raised nearly half a billion dollars.

Brown also implies that today's tech entrepreneurs have a simple goal:

fame and fortune.

This is a fun read that's chock-full of Web 2.0 name-dropping the likes of:

Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman (of Yelp fame)

Tom Anderson (only slightly well-known for his quaint lil' site called MySpace

Marissa Mayer, a blonde-hair and blue-eyed vp at Google

Kevin Rose, founder of Digg

The Captian of Crunch (TechCrunch, that is), Michael Arrington

And who could miss Scobleizer and his confusing post-party quote:

"....what's the deal with these parties? They are getting to be media events, that's all. Be seen, and see."

So, Rob, when were they not about being seen?

Check out Erika's complete article, HERE.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

WiFi Lab in Fayetteville, NC Awaiting Funding

A WiFi test lab in Fayetteville, NC is likely to have $1.08 million in federal funding coming its way.

Can you pinch your tongue and say "Jobs for Fayetteville" 9 times real fast without messing up?

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Why Should the Carriers Follow T-Mobile's "WiFi" Lead?

Fortune's Senior Writer, Stephanie Mehta, provides some compelling reasons why the other carriers should follow T-Mobile's lead in embracing a new wave of Wi-Fi-enabled cell phones.

Competition.
If T-Mobile starts offering fickle wireless customers an opportunity to make super cheap calls and surf their phones for next to nothing, the company, owned by Germany's Deutsche Telekom (Charts), could end up stealing customers from its bigger rivals.

Wi-Fi phones will drive adoption of data services.
Right now, data represents a measly 10 percent of total wireless revenue in the United States even though the carriers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars upgrading their networks for broadband applications such as real-time games and video clips.

However, if customers can try a bunch of those services for cheap or for free while sitting at a hot spot, they might get hooked and pay up for the privilege of accessing their favorite games or applications when they're roaming off the Wi-Fi network, too.

And if wireless data takes off...

Wi-Fi can help wireless carriers manage their networks.
Today, data traffic takes up so little of the wireless telcos' networks that the quality of those systems remains pretty high. But once consumers do start using their cell phones to ship videos and other bandwidth-intensive files, watch out.

Wi-Fi phones will boost DSL sales.
Wi-Fi, remember, basically is a wireless extension of a broadband connection into a home or business. To take advantage of a Wi-Fi enabled phone while I'm at home, I would need to have a broadband connection, typically a cable modem or DSL line.

I think Stephanie knows a thing or two about this business, eh?

I wonder if she's looking for a 2nd job?

Dennis Smith
WirelessJobs.com

Upgrading your phone: Don't let companies call the shots

Allison Kaplan reminds us of the foundation of Customer service 101: Build relationships and reward loyalty. Then, she describes her frustrations with wireless carriers who offer their best deals on new phones to strangers off the street while penalizing existing subscribers with significantly higher prices.

As Allison explains, the carriers subsidize the cost of phones to build their subscriber base. But phones aren't just phones any more — they're cameras, MP3 players, even minicomputers, and manufacturing costs have gone up. By subsidizing the price of a phone, it might take six months of service before the carrier turns a profit.

Check out Allison's full article below:


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Just Keepin the Faith - Billy Joel's Wireless Company?

Bad joke, but it did remind me of a good Billy Joel song.

Anyway, a new faith-based mobile phone company is offering a new service as of today, combining faith and family content with mobile phone services.

FaithFone Wireless offers prepaid wireless services to customers with the twist of also offering daily devotionals, Bible passages, prayer of the day, and other faith based content to its subscribers.

The firm also stated that users of other services can subscribe to receive their services as well. The service aims to "inspire you to Build Your Faith, Keep The Faith, and Walk By Faith," according to an official statement the company released.

So, what do the subscribers do when their cellular network goes down?

I guess they....pray.

Dennis
WirelessJobs

Wireless Carriers Attacking Data Theft

"So, Mr. Weiss (Associate General Counsel of Cingular Wireless), how do you feel about those people who call your customer-service rep's and pretend to be real phone customers in an effort to find out the personal data or calling records of those subscribers?"



"They are thieves -- data burglars, plain and simple," responds Meiss.

Wireless phone companies on Friday insisted that they are doing everything possible to prevent the theft of customers' personal data, and they urged Congress to criminalize behavior now commonly known as pretexting.

Meiss says, "The term 'pretexter' is far too innocuous."

Phone-industry executives called for stiffer punishment of pretexters in a House hearing Friday. They testified one day after lawmakers grilled Hewlett Packard Co. executives for possibly using illegal means to discover the source of boardroom leaks to journalists.

Read full story HERE (MarketWatch)

Jobster Loves Some Wireless

Holy Hotspot, Batman! I did a quick Jobster search this morning for RF Engineers, and I'm getting a tad concerned. The results showed a mere 5,418 RF Engineer jobs available as of this morning (tongue pressed firmly in cheek).

Be still my wireless heart,

Dennis

AT&T to Cut Hundreds of Tech Jobs

Hey, when you promise shareholders $15 billon in operational savings, I guess you have to find the money somewhere, eh? And when your new company mantra is "deliver," well, baby, you gotta deliver.

The EETimes tells us that AT&T company insiders claim the telecom company is shipping out significantly more U.S. jobs than it's bringing back and is set to dramatically increase its use of India-based labor.

AT&T upper management "called a meeting three weeks ago and said all the contractors are being let go," says one source, adding that the process is being repeated throughout the company and could ultimately affect hundreds of tech jobs or more.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

A Worldwide Network Built on People Power

ALTHOUGH he runs his own business, Olaf Kreitz is a socialist when it comes to Internet connections.

In the window of Braintransfer, his Internet consulting company in Manhattan, Mr. Kreitz has mounted a special wireless router from Fon, a start-up company based in Spain that is trying to build a hot-spot network around the world. He hopes passers-by will make free use of his extra bandwidth.

Mr. Kreitz gets something in return for his largess: as part of a Wi-Fi sharing community being developed by Fon, he can log on free to other members’ wireless broadband connections in a growing network of citizen-powered hot spots.

“I love the idea, sharing your Wi-Fi and being able to surf the Internet wherever you find a hot spot,” he said.

Does this thing have a shot at survival?

Read the complete NYTimes article below. And check out more of Olaf's thought at his blog: www.fontastic.org

NYTIMES Technology Section

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Guy Kawasaki + Panel of Tech-Savvy Youth = Brainstorm (Traditional Advertising is Dead)

Guy Kawasaki hosted a panel of six tech-savvy young people and asked them penetrating questions about their attitudes and usage of cellphones, TV, IM, computers, magazines, video game systems, etc.,


What did he find? Traditional advertising models are in big trouble with this crowd.


Here's a few things Guy learned about the young adults whose ages ranged from fifteen to twenty four:

They send as many as 4,000 text messages per month from their phones

They watch one to two hours of TV per week (using Tivo or a recording device to fast-forward through commercials during that short timeframe)

They all have iPods, and they are very loyal to Apple

They buy approximately forty songs a month on iTunes

Helio is the hot phone (though none of them had one)

Interesting facts. If you are thinking about hawking cellphones to this segment of society, you need to read the complete post.

Get it HERE.


Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Cell Phones - Modern Convenience or Social Scourge?

We switch off our cellphones during movies because to be distracted from the film would mean we are wasting the price of our ticket.

So why do leave our cellphone on during our life?

Surely real life is more important than a movie?

But for most cellphone users, it isn't.

The cellphone is a means of escaping reality...

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How Much Work Do Recruiters Do?

The Recruiting Animal passes on some Adler-facts, telling us that the number of job orders a recruiter handles is a strong influence on the quality of her candidates.

Corporate recruiters: handle 20 to 40 jobs at a time
Agency recruiters: 8 to 12
Retained recruiters: less

From Lou Adler

Mobile ESPN Putting On the Brakes?

This MVNO stuff is pretty crazy, eh? Virgin made quite a splash, then along comes ESPN and Disney. I'm still wondering if Disney will come out with a phone for each of the seven dwarfs.

Today, Om Malik tells us that Mobile ESPN may soon be UnMobile (courtesy of Moco.News)

Seems there's a bit of nervousness about an MVNO shakeup at Sprint Nextel.

You think?

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Companies Tap Cell Phones for Podcasts

Many people are just getting used to snapping pictures, listening to music, watching videos, sending text messages and getting e-mails over their cell phones.

It turns out the phones can handle much more.

Companies at this week's DEMOfall 2006 tech conference are demonstrating how the communications gadget lining millions of people's pockets also can be used to scan documents, personalize photos and listen to podcasts.

ScanR Inc. and Realeyes3D SA, introduced online services so their users can snap a photo of business cards, white boards or pages of documents.

Fonpods Inc., debuted a free on-demand service to deliver podcasts to mobile phones, extending the increasingly popular audio programming from beyond its usual realm of computers and digital music players.

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Universities see sharp drop in computer science/engineering majors

Computer science and computer engineering jobs are some of the fastest-growing occupations in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

So why are university computer science departments watching their enrollments slide?

There is a perception that you don't need a four-year degree to get an IT job. And so, fewer and fewer people are enrolling in university computer science programs, just at a time when employers say they can't find enough qualified employees.

This is a change from the peak of the dot-com era from roughly 1997 to 2001, when tech companies with big plans, wild ideas and investors willing to take a big risk flooded the marketplace. Then, the bottom fell out of the boom and a national recession entered the picture.

Read the entire article at the Tennessean.com.

Holy Mother of Wireless! Motorola Named Best Place for Mothers

Kudos to Moto (NYSE: MOT) for being a benchmark for work/life practices in corporate America.

It's nice to see a technology company with such worldwide reach be recognized by Working Mother magazine as a 2006 Working Mother 100 Best Company.

Read complete article HERE.

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Giving this phone away isn't even good enough

I guess "free" is almost too much to ask for this phone, according to Engadget.

In fact, it's so bad to look at, I'm not even putting a pic on the post.

Sorry guys - we'll let you get back to the N95.

Dennis

Motorola releases Cosmic Blue RAZR with Chinese language

The Cosmic Blue RAZR is a cool looking phone. Moto and Red Pocket Mobile announced on Wednesday the first handsets targeted to Chinese Americans sold by a U.S. wireless service provider.

MotoDaily.com

The Last Phone Number You Will Ever Need

GrandCentral is a new web app that lets you consolidate all of your phone numbers into one number. Someone can call you on your GrandCentral phone number and all of your phones will ring. And then it gets interesting.

There's a ton of ways to configure this thing, and the features are pretty cool. If you don't want every one of your phones ringing each time someone calls your free GrandCentral number, you can set rules by friends, family, work, and others, defining where the calls should be directed.

When a user leaves a message, you can listen to it online or directly on your phone. The remaining set of features on GrandCentral are a little mind-blowing, in that "I'd never thought of that, but how am I now living without it?" sort of way.

This is a great read at Lifehacker.com. Check out the complete article HERE.

Dennis
Wirelessjobs.com

Indeed.com Launches Salary Search

HT to the Erick Schonfeld at Business 2.0 Blog for this article:

Who gets paid more, bloggers or journalists? Wondering whether to spend two years on an MBA or eight years getting a PhD? According to a nifty new salary search tool at Indeed, job listings for bloggers advertise higher salaries than those for either journalists or reporters.

(Yes, you can get paid to blog). And MBAs are paid more than PhDs:









You can type in any job description and the online tool will tell you the average salary for listings indexed by the Indeed job search engine with that keyword—by city or area code.

More details here.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Networking Lessons for Life: Shally and El Dave

El Dave brings a terrific post today providing six networking rules to live by (as noted by one of the Kings of Networking, Shally Steckerl).

Check 'em out HERE.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

.MOBI Just Another Way For Registrars to Make Bank

As of yesterday, those who reserved their mobi domains in advance can start using them.

Just to save you some time, www.wireless.mobi is already taken.

So, is www.mobile.mobi, www.recuiting.mobi, and www.jobs.mobi.

Drat!

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Colleges' role in career success stirs debate

The question of whether a degree from an elite school boosts one's chances for success in business is hotly debated.

It's also an extremely emotional topic because memories of the college application process trigger strong feelings of being either validated or rejected.

read more

Tech Job Growth Strong

The U.S. tech industry added 140,000 jobs between January and June 2006, a 2.5 percent increase, for a total of 5.81 million, according to study by the industry group American Electronics Association.

The expansion nearly doubled the 78,900 tech jobs added in the first half of 2005 and represents the strongest job growth of any six-month period since 2001.

The good news, wireless-wienies.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

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The Evolution of Wireless

If this stuff is boring to you, it's only because you've never changed out a radio in a cellular base station.

New radio technologies could allow wireless handhelds to do more, and make updating cellular base stations quick and easy.

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Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Wiffiti (Wireless Graffiti): Texting in Public

Wiffiti, or wireless graffiti, lets you send a text message to a public display so everyone can see your shoutout or random personal comment. Although these displays are currently limited to 8 locations including cafes and sub shops in Cambridge, Seattle, and Chicago, it's a neat idea that even has marriage proposals being displayed.

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Engadget Shows the Cellphone Love

The 'new Engadget' didn't play very well with some mobile browsers (Pocket IE, we're looking at you...).

Now you can just point your WAP compatible mobile browser at engadget.com and let the magic happen - no need to fuss with those annoying mobile subdomains, or worse, crappy .mobi TLDs. It works with most of phones and browsers, more to come.

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Plugged-in cellphones waste enough energy to power 60,000 households

A mobile industry task force led by Nokia reports that if 10% of the world's cellphone-using population unplugged their phones once they were done charging, it would save enough energy to power 60,000 households per year.

Who knew?

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ZOGO - a mobile dating service?

My buddy Durbin asked me earlier if I'd seen ZOGO. What? My fingers instantly itched to punch it in google...so I did.

ZOGO. Hook Up. No Wires. No Waiting.

Hmmmm.....is this thing a mobile dating service?

Is anybody out there using ZOGO?

Dennis

Help! Need a web developer/designer to fix this blog

Kathy Sierra needs a web developer to get her blog back in tip-top shape.

Only the most creative and passionate developers need apply.

And if you apply, you'd darn better like her blog.

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Download a transcript of Debbie Weil's Corporate Blogging Teleconference

Debbie Weil's teleconference about her Corporate Blogging Book, (which I own) was a hit (Debbie says it was, and I believe her).

The book is right on (I love using 70's terms). How could it not be even better to have Debbie in real-time (you know what I mean).

In fact, I'm going to download the transcript from the teleconference....and you can too.

The download link is in Debbie's post HERE.

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Nokia's Ncredible Nseries Smartphones

Cool and Smart.

Nokia today launched three new Nseries mobile handsets, hoping users will be seduced by the smart phones' built-in multimedia gadgets, which take print-quality pictures, read e-mail, play music, browse Web sites, and display mobile TV.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Resume Design

They aren't recruiters, but they've got some great advice for the jobseeker attempting to craft the perfect resume.

Check out Sean and Chanpory's LifeClever site, which offers up tips for design and life.

Very nice site.

Here's an excerpt from their post on "The 7 Deadly Sins of Resume Design":


"So you've labored with sweat and tears writing your resume, and now you're all set to turn it into a magnificently designed creation. Unfortunately, when it comes to resume design, both non-designers and professional designers can commit some almost unforgivable sins. For a better looking resume avoid these common mistakes" (I used Times New Roman for this text just to validate their point!!!)

Fancy Resume Paper
Times New Roman
Teeny tiny font size
Grey text
Excessive decoration
Weird paper size
Horizontal format

Click below to get more details on the "sinfulness" of these mistakes.

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T-Mobile MDA Blog for tips, tricks, links and hacks

Using your T-Mobile MDA to manage your job search? Check out the T-Mobile MDA Blog for tips, tricks, links, and hacks, uh, more tricks.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

technorati: MDA, T-Mobile Blog, Dean Olmstead, cellphone,

Jim Durbin Offers Advice on How to Use Technorati to Catch a Recruiter's Attention

Jobseekers ... check out Durbin's post called:

"How to Use Technorati to Get Found by a Recruiter."

As I commented on Jim's post,

Even if you aren't looking for a job today, you might be tomorrow. Paint a
target on your "online chest" and say...."Here I am!"

Jim's advice will help you "git-r-done."

Dennis

Courthouse goes Wireless in Spotsylvania

"It's a new day in Spotsylvania," said Hap Connors, chairman of the Board of Supervisors.
The latest change is the county's move to wireless. Now, anyone traveling through the courthouse area can connect to the Internet with a laptop or personal data assistant.

This wireless stuff is totally wicked, eh? One day, I won't even go to the courthouse to pay my speeding ticket....I'll just call the court at my appointed time; talk to the judge while gazing at his/her mug on my color display; then, once the gavel is dropped, I'll send payment to the courthouse via my Paypal account.

Yep, all from my wireless phone.

Dennis

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Job Transfers can boost career but need to be weighed carefully

Experts advise that even if a job transfer makes economic and career sense, young employees should consider whether it will make social sense as well.

Ok, I'm about to say something here that's going to sound reallly stupid....

"It's not all about the money."

Dennis

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7% Would Rather Lose Job or Partner than Give Up Cell Phone

A shocking seven percent said they would rather lose a job or relationship than give up their mobile.

I wonder if the number would be higher given the choice between blogging and partner?

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

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T-Mobile Readies New Web Phones

T-Mobile USA is expected to launch a host of new services, including a new generation of Internet phones, to attract customers away from both wireless and land-line phone companies -- and it plans to drop its celebrity pitchwoman, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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Wireless Networking May Soon Get Faster. Will Anyone Care?

On this volcanic island at the tip of the Korean Peninsula, where kings once exiled dissidents and tourists now flock to casinos, South Korean engineers recently unveiled a prototype of a wireless network that they hope will revolutionize Internet access.

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World's smallest cellphone might be a bit too small

2 bits says I'd lose this phone within 24 hours.


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Goodbye Wi-Fi: Says Craig (Disruptous Maximus) McCaw

It's almost a given these days that Clearwire, the Wi-Max wireless network founded by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, will shake up the wireless broadband sector. "If anyone is going to do it, it's going to be Clearwire," says Joe Laszlo, a senior broadband analyst at JupiterResearch in New York.

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The Swiss Army cell phone

The industry debate centers on how much consumers really want in a phone. Some industry executives say they believe the mobile phone of the future will replace other mobile devices. Naysayers say consumers are willing to carry multiple devices for better quality.

No, this isn't the real Swiss phone (as you could never get it through an airport). But the article is an interesting read.

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Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies

Check out corporate America's super-charged performers (the top 100 list)....HERE.

The top five:

VAALCOEnergy

HansenNatural

ArmorHoldings

SouthernCopper

LCA-Vision

Fastest growing by revenue growth....HERE.

Fastest growing by total return....HERE.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

The Luke Johnson Phone Experiment

You gotta love this guy's creativity. I'm not sure how many phone calls Luke received, but I'd like to hire this guy on creativity alone.

Which gets me to thinkin'...why haven't we seen more resumes on YouTube? I did a quick search and was surprised at how few came back.

I found three people looking for new gigs who had decent videos:

Erik the Meteorologist

Blake Scott - Golfer

Rich Hecker - funny guy and entrepreneur

But, hey, where are the wireless gurus?

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

The Resume of the Future?

Or, maybe just a little pick-me-up to make me feel better about myself.

I'm tellin' ya, this presentation and a Venti Nonfat Latte' is enough to keep me going for a week.

Click HERE to see me fathom the depths of humility.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

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Oh Yeah? Well, My Wireless Network is Bigger than Your Wireless Network!

If you are looking for a job at a wireless carrier, you don't really care who has the largest network, right?

But if you'd like to know, just for the sake of knowing, well.....you've seen the commercials; you've heard the debates; you can't go a week without hearing Verizon, Cingular, or Sprint claim to have the biggest or fastest wireless network in America... or sometimes all three of them!

So....who's right? Click below for the answer to this $64 question......


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Teen CEO of Podcast Firm Gets Early Start on American Dream

Is it ever too early to get a jump-start on your career? Ask 17 year-old Weina Scott.

She's now working 20 hours/week at Switchpod - a company she started last year. In between 7 AP classes and 100 tech support e-mails a day, she's now serving as Switchpod's CEO and pulling in $40/year.

Dream people - dream.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

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Don't Get Burned by Wi-Fi's Weak Spots

I was so excited to be wire-free in my home, a few months passed before I realized I'd never enabled the security function to keep free-loaders off my router. C'mon, I'd been freeloading off of people for months before I finally got FIOS, surely it wasn't that big of a deal...right?

I think I was just lucky.

Check out this article in Cincinnati.Com's Technology section which provides insight as to what "can" happen if you fail to enable the security on your wireless router.

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Wireless Carriers Plot New Strategies

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- After signing up more than seven of every 10 Americans for wireless service, mobile-phone carriers are casting about for new, and old, ways to maintain frothy growth rates.

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I Think Mr. Weatherman Needs a New Job

Since Friday is officially over, I thought I'd throw out a little Friday funny.

Now, I've seen my share of giant cockroaches, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one big enough to make me scream like a 3 year old girl.

When Mr. Cockroach comes back for round two, just forget about the fact that a major storm is blanketing Florida - this boy puts on his wheels.

T-Mobile's 10 Wireless Jobs in Frisco, TX

We're closing out Friday's blogfest with 10 Wireless Jobs in Frisco, TX.

The best engineering recruiters in the world (that would be us), are on these jobs like white on rice. So don't be shy. Email me - I'll make sure that your resume gets in the right hands. My hands.

Engineer3, Technical Support

Manager3, Systems-Engineering

Manager2, Engineering-Network Ops

Coordinator,Project

Manager4, Engineering-PM

Director, Engineering-Sys & Planning

Engineer2, Systems Design

Engineer3, Systems

Manager3, Real Estate & Zoning

ProjectManager 2, Engineering

Dennis
www.WirelessJobs.com

The 5 Hottest Tech Skills vs. The 5 Coldest Tech Skills

Are you a hot commodity? Say yes if you've got the kind of skills that help companies adapt quickly to fast-changing business needs.

Application Developers with customer-facing skills
SAP Application Development
Wireless Expertise
Storage Area Networking
RFID

The skills that will be declining in demand over the next 2 - 5 years?

Programming/Routine Coding
Systems Testing
Application Maintenance
Tech Support
Data Continuity

Source...InformationWeek

So, are you hot?

Dennis
Wirelessjobs.com

Motorola Beats Pack to the Punch with Cell Phone Vending Machine

Gimme a Reese's, a Diet Coke, and ummm....a RAZR.

Yep, Moto beats the rest of the vendors to the punch, and shoppers craving the latest Motorola Inc. cell phones and accessories will be able to buy them at automated sales machines being installed in nearly two dozen malls and airports nationwide.

One of the machines installed in downtown Chicago drew stares from customers on Thursday. The machines are about three times the size of a typical beverage vending machine.

Read the full story....here.

Soure...Mobile Tech Today

WirelessJobs.com

Dishin' Out the Cell Phone Love...or not!

Click here to see what happens when a blogger, Joel on Software, gets a free phone and finally decideds to blog about it.

Holy Smokes Joel, I'm glad we didn't send you a shoddy T-Mo phone! :)

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Source...Molly Woods, The CNET Blog

I Don't Need "White 'n Nerdy," Give Me "Wireless 'n Nerdy!"

Nerdy or not, here's my shout-out to all those skilled in the art of wireless (Nunchuck and Tetherball Masters need not apply). However, if you're down on some wireless skills, we needs to have some talks (sorry, my slang isn't so good - that's a hard skill to acquire having grown up in Oklahoma).

Dennis (not so nerdy, not so geeky, but I'm tryin')
GeekyNerdyWirelessJobs.com

HT: NerdyCheezHead

Are You Geeky Enough to Wear the GSM Watch?

Show up for a job interview wearing this bad-boy and it just might be the gadget that gets you the geek-of-the-year award.

And, who knows, maybe a job offer!

ps....due out in December (hint-hint)

Dennis

Source... (Mobilecrunch)

Product Page...

Mobile Phones Dirt Cheap (just ignore the foul odor)

Is there a strange odor wafting out of your mobile phone's mouthpiece?

Cross your fingers and hope your not using one of the phones smuggled through the sewer pipes from Hong Kong to China!


It reminds me of a song...

"Over the river and through the "sewer" to Grandmother's house we go..."

Really, you gotta wonder where they are shipping those phones. Hopefully it's not to the UK where:

51% of 10 years olds and 91% of the 12 year olds have mobile phones

11-17 year olds text more than they talk

11-17 year olds send or receive 9.6 texts a day

78% of 11-17 year olds say that having a mobile phone gives them a better social life

42% of 15-17 year olds girls say they'd feel unwanted if the day went by without their mobile phone ringing

1 in 3 children say they talk regularly and/or send texts to people they do not want their parents to know about

Almost half of 11-14 year olds would not allow their parents to look through their text messages

A quarter of 11-17 year olds have received a text inviting them on a date

Wow. Makes me wonder how I ever made it through High School without a mobile phone? Text messaging? Voice-mail?

Oh yeah, that was back in the "old days" when we had to use a land line without call waiting, call forwarding, caller id, call waiting id, and call notes.

Mobile phones - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Twelve Job Interview Mistakes

BusinessWeek Online offers up a visual presentation of the 12 mistakes that candidates often make during the interview process.







Here's the big 12:

Being Unprepared for Standard Questions
Sounding Too Rehearsed
Stalking HR
Applying for the Wrong Job
Arriving Too Early
Oversharing
Asking the Wrong Questions (Or No Questions at All)
Bungling the Salary
Negotiation Process
Failing to Show Enthusiasm
Exaggerating Work
Experience
Being Rude
Trashing a Former Employer

Click here to get the visual with detailed explanations.

Dennis Smith
WirelessJobs.com

job interview, businessweek online

Have WiFi will Travel

HT to Gizmodo for posting the Airport Wireless Access Guide created by the folks at TravelPost.

Next time your job interview takes you through a few airports, you'll be prepared for the WiFi adventure that awaits.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Wi-Fi, TravelPost, Wireless, Airports

Accountant Careers.co.uk provides accounting jobs in the UK via its employment Web site.

If it Walks Like a Duck and Quacks Like a Duck...

Blog alert - this has nothing to do with wireless jobs. Feel free to hit your back button and my feelings won't be hurt.

It's taken me this long to get over the grief of watching the most ridiculous imitation of refereeing (is that a word?) that I've ever witnessed. The Sooners were robbed, thanks to the lack of skills portrayed by the ref's in the OU vs. Oregon game on Saturday.

It was so clear to the guys calling the game, that they even said,

"No question, the Instant Play ref is going to reverse this call."

Did he? No. Heeelllllooo?! Not only was the ball touched by an Oregon player before it traveled 10 yards, but the Sooners still recovered the ball!

Ok, I'm a poor loser. But it's one thing to lose fair 'n square - another to robbed by the guys in black and white.

Nuff said - back to the wirelessjobs.

Dennis

5 Words of Advice for the Job Seeker ...

Step away from the Cocaine!

Don't even think about drinking this bad boy pre-interview. You are guaranteed to fail.





I can already here it...

"Don't cry over spilled milk. Spilled cocaine, well......"

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

HT: Best Week Ever

technorati: cocaine, job seeker, job interview

The New New Internet Conference

Follow the Chief Jobster as he blogs the play-by-play of the "new new" internet web conference.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com

Dream Big...Shoot for the Stars....then blog about it!

A telecom tycoon from Plano, TX blasted into space aboard a Russian rocket Monday morning on the first leg of a journey to the International Space Station.

Anousheh Ansari, a 40-year-old Iranian-American, is the fourth person - and first woman - to buy a ticket that cost about $20m to go into the great beyond. And she's blogging about it!

Check out her blog: Anousheh Ansari Space Blog

Anousheh is expected to arrive at the orbiting space lab on Wednesday, where she'll spend the next eight days conducting experiments and blogging her experiences.

How did she make her dream a reality? In 1993, Anousheh and her husband both worked at MCI as engineers. She convinced him that they should quit their jobs, cash out the $50k in their retirement accounts and start a telecom company. Seven years later, they sold the biz for $750m.

Is it ever too late to dream big? I guess not. And now, Anousheh has a $20m dollar receipt and a lifetime to blog about how she lived her dream.

Very cool, Anousheh. Come back to Plano safely.

I ain't got a girlfriend, I ain't got a dog, all I've got is my...cellphone

Seems to me I'm in the right business. Thanks HM.

Dennis
WirelessJobs.com