Americans love their cell phones most of us can’t live without them. Yet the Better Business Bureau reports that cell phone providers are the No. 1 cause of complaints among consumers.

This is mostly due to incorrect billing, confusing fees, unexpected charges, and deceptive contracts. These can certainly add up, but it’s shocking that the most significant–even devastating–monetary damage can occur when your cell phone is lost or stolen.

Spb Software House has released Spb Phone Suite, a collection of all the main phone features you’ve been missing on your Windows Mobile device. Spb Phone Suite brings features like profiles, call filtering, missed call notification, dialing with photos, etc. to the modern mobile phone.

A new breed of visually striking games promises to light up computer screens with even sharper, more lifelike graphics than ever before. But unlike the popular “Gears of War” or “MotorStorm,” the games won’t be debuting on Sony’s PlayStation 3 or Microsoft’s Xbox 360 consoles.

Instead, the PC is returning to the pinnacle of video game graphics–thanks to some under-the-hood tweaks in Microsoft’s Vista operating system.

The technology behind these improved visuals, called DirectX 10, is the result of a collaboration among video game developers, graphics card makers and Microsoft. For years, they have been working to streamline and standardize the software used by Windows-based PCs to display graphics. The latest improvements, many believe, far surpass even the very best of what the consoles are capable of.

Resco’s popular backup application for the Palm OS has received a major update to version 2.01. Resco Backup is an easy-to-use, yet powerful utility to protect your Palm device. It allows you to backup and restore from a memory card and has a large host of options including scheduled backups, encryption, backup set analysis and a number of other features. The new version features a new, optional basic mode, with a simplified interface, new project templates, a reorganized restore procedure, additional error checking and a number of other minor optimizations and updates.

Pocket Heroes is a fantasy turn-based strategy with elements of a role-playing game. The universe continues the one from the Heroes of Might and Magic series. The game is quite complex and can be divided in two parts: the development part and the fighting part. The first one involves raising a castle in order to recruit creatures. For doing this you need resources and gold that you gather from terrain or mines. In order to advance in the game and reveal the territory, you’ll have to fight against monsters and other players. You can do this by giving armies to your heroes and going into enemies’ land. A skilled tactician will have to know the timing for development and fighting, as this is crucial for winning.

Resco announced the availability of a new release of Resco Explorer 2007. Explorer 2007 continues in the footsteps of Resco Explorer 2005, improving its features and adding many new ones. File Types Highlighting, Status bar, and customizable startup folder makes managing files even easier as before. Users will also appreciate improvements in the field of networking, ability to view encrypted files with built-in viewer, running application manager in Today Plugin and dozens more.

Responding to customer demand Dell has restarted selling new PCs with Windows XP installed on them.

The decision reverses a policy begun in January that meant Windows Vista was the only operating system available on almost all new home machines.

The change came after Dell’s feedback site was swamped with calls for the return of the venerable software.

PhatWare announced the release of PhatPad 4.2, the next generation of the company’s notes organizer for Microsoft Windows-based Tablet, Desktop PCs, and Windows Mobile powered Pocket PCs and Smartphones, which is “Certified For” Windows Vista.

PhatPad allows users to draw pictures, jot notes, or put a mixture of pictures and typed text on a virtual scratch pad. The program uses new digital ink technology, which provides a very smooth ink flow, so it feels like writing on an actual piece of paper. While working with the note editor, PhatPad offers standard editing commands in addition to a customizable pen palette and variable pen width.

Research In Motion announced plans to expand its support for Windows Mobile-based devices with a new software application suite that will enable devices from third-party manufacturers to benefit from the popular BlackBerry software applications and services. RIM plans to begin offering the new software application suite later this year for select devices based on Windows Mobile 6. Once installed, the software will provide users with a virtual BlackBerry application experience, including support for BlackBerry email, phone, calendar, address book, tasks, memos, browser, instant messaging and other applications developed for the BlackBerry platform. Devices running the BlackBerry application suite will be able to connect to BlackBerry services via BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as BlackBerry Internet Service.

It’s a sport only for the fleet of thumb with a ruthless dedication to punctuation.

And while competitive text messaging may not have quite gained Olympic status, the hundreds of mostly teenagers who took part in the US championships in New York Saturday could think of little but the 25,000-dollar prize money.

Some 250 challengers shunned the warmest day of the year for a dark ballroom where they battled it out for a chance to take on the reigning West Coast champion, 21-year-old Eli Tirosh, for the title of US Texting Champion.

In the end, 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar faced off against Michael “Cheeser” Nguyen in the east coast final, with Pozgar slipping past her challenger to face west coast champion Tirosh, a law student from Los Angeles.