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I haven’t yet started using Twitter but I have no doubt that the deaf community will catch on to it (witness twittering during the San Diego Fires).

So I found an excellent guide of twittering etiquette.

The Big Juicy Twitter Guide

I want to thank SprintRelay.tv for their sponsorship of Deaf Resource Center. Without their support I would not be able to keep the website updated more often.

I encourage all to consider using SprintRelay.tv for your VRS services.

Here’s one if you took a dip in the water with your Sidekick:

Save a wet cell phone

Use with caution and common sense.

Recently I received an email promoting an “alternative” to the UbiDuo.

I gotta check this out, after all I should know the competition, right? (Disclosure reminder: I am manager of WinfreePCS.com which sells UbiDuo).

I contacted this person (our email path has crossed before and our conversations were never pleasant), and he sent me the link to his product.

Here’s part of the product listing:

” Why pay almost $2,000 for face to face communication devices when you can get yours for less than $50.00!”

Luckily it came with a picture of the product as well as well as the exact title of the product.

I copied the title into Amazon. Sure enough there’s the identical photo of the product and the information.

See for yourself:

Discovery Text Messengers

Take notice of the reviews - all thumbs down.

Considered yourself informed. A $50 product that could be compared to a $2000 product is “too good to be true”.

This person operates a deaf advocacy center in California and he should be ashamed of himself to market inferior products to the deaf community.

When there’s a disaster, Red Cross is there. What happens if the disaster victim happens to be deaf? How can a hearing rescuer communicate?

UbiDuo to the rescue!!

Rochester Red Cross now has TWO UbiDuos - one in the office and one in the disaster rig.

Thanks to 13Wham.com, Rochester NY’s ABC Television station for getting the word out.

If you want you local Red Cross to considering purchasing the UbiDuo, please contact Winfreepcs.com for assistance.

(full disclosure - Judy S. Gunter, webmaster of deafbiz.com is also Manager of winfreepcs.com and has helped Red Cross with the UbiDuos).