"The Alliance's Cloud 2015 vision", UK's Big Business Initiative

" Some of the world's biggest companies are using their market clout to demand that computer equipment makers change the way they make their machines. The 70 firms, which includes BMW, Shell and Marriott Hotels, said systems that do not work together are holding back the...

Distracted Drivers Kill Thousands Each Year

Drivers who were distracted by electronic devices killed around 5,800 people in the United States during 2008, says U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The numbers were presented at a two-day Transportation...

Power Pad Offers Easy Recharge for devices...with no wires!

" Amid the wireless buzz, a company claims to have solved the "last wire" dilemma by eliminating the need to plug in devices to charge them. Startup MobileWise is working with Acer and others to ship (early next year) a pad with a conductive surface capable of powering...

Phones for Fearless City campaign kicks-off

NOTE: Cross-posted from Fearless City. Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family. How can you help? Your used mobile phones - preferably with video, camera, wi-fi Cash donations (* tax deductible) or new...

Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross quits after disclosure failure

David Ross, co-founder of British mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse (which also operates The Phone House in continental Europe) has been forced to resign after failing to disclose that he had pledged his shares in teh company against personal loans."Mr Ross disclosed the...

Mobile phones record koalas' conversations

Koalas do talk to each other, but scientists don't know how, or how often. But a group of scientists in Australia are using mobile phones to understand what the bears could be saying to each other, and how they...

Gaza Man Works Phones For Obama

A young resident of Gaza, Ibrahim Abu Jayab, is cold calling American voters to vote for Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, in the final race to the White House on November 4. If He called my...

Cell phone owner? Better watch your BOT in 2009

These menancing little creepy things  {{BOTS}}  seem to get into anything....... read on...."About 15 percent of all online computers are infected with bots, says a new report (PDF) on emerging threats for...

Schwarzenegger signs bill banning texting by motorists

California will ban drivers from sending text messagesn while driving, after the governor signed legislation banning the practice into law. Since July, California drivers have been banned from using their cell...

Capturing the Moment (and More) via Cellphone Video

Cell phones, the internet, blogs and web streaming technology have created an almost seamless interaction between any event you witness and the world wide web. "STILL keeping in touch with friends by texting? How old-fashioned. Some early adopters of technology are now using...

911 2.0: NYC's Multimedia Emergency Line

So maybe New York City's subway stations flood during a spring rain, and the streets smell like a wastebin, but the Big Apple's emergency hotline is next-level, becoming the first system to be able to process photo and video imagery from mobiel phone cameras."Tipsters in New...

Brazil wiretapping scandal: Did spies tap officials' phones? (Updated)

" Head of Brazil's intelligence agency removed. 2008-09-02 02:42:02 - BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's president on Monday suspended the head of the nation's intelligence service amid a scandal over wiretaps on...

Help, I'm turning into my mother

"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...

Jamie Oliver launches attack on British booze culture

Jamie Oliver, the man who's nicknamed the Naked Chef along with the successful show and a bunch of others, has made some comments on what he thinks of British alcohol culture and the lack of tradition in households. "Oliver, 33, said Britons used to create "fabulous dishes"...

Audit body: Bonus to dancing inmates illegal

"CEBU CITY -- Illegal bonuses to prisoners and the unregulated use of government phones were among the alleged lapses that state auditors found in the Cebu Provincial Government’s transactions last year. The Commission on Audit (COA), in its annual report released...

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