Adobe buys PhoneGap, TypeKit for better Web tools      A
beginner's guide to telecom jargon, part 8   This week, I
explain what a geo-fence is, why a feature phone is really just
a dumb phone with a niftier marketing title, and why companies
love rebates.   Alignment: Look, it's another code word for
layoffs. While not exactly the best example of telecom jargon,
it's a relevant term given Nokia's decision to "align" its
workforce, which means shedding 3,500 jobs on top of a prior
plan to cut thousands of other jobs. It's in the same vein as
synergy and redundancy, fancy words that mask the ugly truth
that a lot of people are getting canned.  Feature phone: This is
the industry's term for any phone that isn't a smartphone, which
runs on a more complex operating system that can run
applications. You have to admire the marketing spin on what is
essentially a dumb phone.  I, for one, hate using the term, and
have largely stuck to calling them basic phones.  Feature phones
are in a phase of gradual decline as peop