Archive for October, 2005
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Give the finger to inventory control. Socket Communications just announced a new Bluetooth barcode scanner ring. (not pictured)
To address customer and market demand, Socket will offer a tiny Cordless Ring Scanner that transmits scanned bar code data via Bluetooth to mobile computers. It is typically worn on the index finger ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Here's the deal. Fido has been watching too many Lassie re-runs and is lost ..again! Rather than send the whole town out looking for him, you simply call the telephone number of the particular pet collar. The satellite antenna on top of the collar then zones in on any ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
An interesting post at Techzonez indicates that those who control the mobile adult industry (porn and gambling) will be attacked by organized crime; the "traditional" purveyors of adult content.
Gambling and pornography will be two of the largest revenue streams for the mobile Internet, Gartner predicted in a report released on ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Britons are communicating more frequently than ever, but many feel that the rise of text-based digital services has made communication with friends and family less personal, according to a new survey.
The survey also indictated that people use email, text and IM in situations where they are trying to avoid confrontation ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
IDK if this is old news, but it is new to me.
Due to the rise in cell phone theft and cell related accidents. Orange UK has launched a minisite about cell phone safety. The site features information for students and adults regarding cell safety while on the street, in school ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
The Lockergnome has a great post which links to another post at DigitalMediaThoughts.com which plainly points out exactly how greedy the record labels are.
Let's look at the numbers. Recording costs, production, artist fees, etc. average approximately $2-3 per album. The cost of pressing a compact disc, the case, ...
Posted in MP3, Mobile Services, News, Ringtones | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
MocoNews.net writes about another mobile goodie, SoonR, which allows you (or someone else) to search and retrieve documents from your PC.
The basic idea is to access your home computer from your mobile, so users can “read documents, reply to Microsoft Outlook e-mail, look at photographs, and even share them with ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
MocoNews.net posts about a new pricing plan for mobile gaming: pay per life/play. For 50 pence, 3UK users can buy "lives" on various multipplayer games. After all the lives are used up, if the gamer wants to play more it will cost another 50p. Much like the video game arcades ...
Posted in Carriers, Games, News, Software | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
The EU is pressuring Japan (and South Korea) to adopt the world's most widely used mobile phone system: (Global System for Mobile or GSM).
70% of the world uses the GSM network, but Japan and S. Korea have the latest and the greatest mobile technology (which doesn't use GSM). The discussion ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Google Maps and Yahoo Mapsis great for getting folks from PA to NYC by car. Even better, the same directions can be had from your mobiles using Google and Yahoo's SMS services. But once they arrive at the Big Apple how does someone from Pennsyltucky get around the city after ...
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