Archive for March, 2006
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
This makes me tremble and wanting to buy both a Windows Mobile smartphone and Slingbox.
The SlingPlayer software -- which lets broadband-enabled WinMo devices stream live and recorded TV from a remote SlingBox -- works as a 30-day trial, after which time it can be purchased for $30 (although ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
In Washington state, despite the blindfold, a 12-year-old girl recognized her attacker when his phone rang.
The blindfolded victim apparently recognized the phone's unique ringtone and said, "Jimmy you are scaring me. If it’s you Jimmy, stop it."
The startled attacker ran off, leaving the girl bound and alone in the ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
I have a feeling that this ZoneTag project is related to the Merkitys-Meaning application which allows Symbian users to geo-tag and upload to Flickr.
ZoneTag, from Yahoo, appears to do the same.
The application uploads images from your mobile phone to Flickr and automatically tags them with the location, based on ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
It works in the console and pc market, so why not put in-game ads on your mobile?
Expect in the near future to see a rising interest for mobile in-game advertising and with new technology such as a new multimedia devices featuring excellent processor performance, display technology or 3G surround sound, ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Yahoo takes another step towards the telecom/cellecom industry.
The version 7.5 Beta launch follows on the successes Yahoo has seen in five other countries since December. Like Skype, the new service allows free computer-to-computer calls and features "Phone Out" and "Phone In" capabilities allowing users to dial or receive calls from ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Probably thinking it would cannabalize WindowsMobile Microsoft had not released Hotmail for your mobile phone until today.
Keeping up with the Joneses (Google and Yahoo), MSN/Hotmail users can now access their inboxes from their mobile phones.
No mention of WAP or java app... so who knows how they implemented it. (I imagine ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Herb Weisbaum talks about the issues surrounding dropping your land line. Namely 911.
MSNBC.com
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
When the goverment runs your internet things like this can happen.
China has banned VoIP until 2008.
The move is widely seen as the Chinese government’s response and remedy to the growing threat that landline operators are facing from VoIP.
Say what you want... The conspiracist in me says that the Chinese government ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Found this on Gizmodo yesterday. Add a "proper" flash to your camera phone.
Stick it, then click it.
Gizmodo
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
The ever-growing, socialist, amorphic online encyclopedia can now be accessed easily from your mobile device.
Users of Pocket PCs, Smartphones and Java-enabled mobile phones running web browsers can now access a lightweight version of the Wikipedia on-line encyclopaedia.
New Zealand-based company Instinct has created a mobile version of Wikipedia for ...
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