ReversePhoneDirectory.com Guest Stars on Fox’s Touch

In a previous life, he was special Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent Jack Bauer in the Fox thriller, 24 . However in this life, actor Kiefer Sutherland plays Martin Bohm, a single father who connects with his emotionally challenged, but numerically gifted son to change the lives of people whose lives intersect according to pattern his son Jake has foreseen, on the new Fox series Touch.

In the second episode of the season, Jack — er Martin –needs to get information on a phone number that his son cryptically scrawls on to the palm of his hand. However, since Chloe O’Brian is no longer an alternative, Martin turns to the real world way of finding info information fast and free — enter reversephonedirectory.com!

Smart enough for everything but a phonecall

You wake up every morning, and as sure as the existence of morning breath, technology has changed. Computers are a little faster, Facebook is a little more invasive, and smartphones are a little smarter than they were just one day ago. But in the case of smartphones, are they becoming  just a little too smart and little too less phone? According to new research, this is exactly the case. Particularly in rural areas, smartphones are just not the best at the basics; 3G phones like the iPhone can give high speed access to email and the web, but they are often below par when it comes to making a traditional phone call.

Cell phone costs soar overseas

Once upon a time, a man named Chris got on an airplane to Japan to help out with his sick grandmother.  Chris was not a rich man, but he did feel kindly toward his grandmother, so he happily plunked down the big bucks for his trip across the seas.  Up, up, in the air, away Chris flew to grandma’s house with his new iPhone 4 tucked snugly in his pocket.