Nokia's iPhone rival announced next week

Eager to turn around its sinking stock, Nokia will reveal its first touch-screen mobile phone next week. While Samsung and HTC have offered up touch-screens (HTC's alliance with Google's Android being the current...

Ontario doctors against cellular driving

We've all seen it, the distracted driver yapping on the mobile and swerving all over the road, putting the lives of others at risk for the sake of making dinner plans or discussing a business deal (some of us may...

Japanese cellphone can unlock car, start engine

Japan has once again proved themselves as the innovation guru as their new technology combines a cellphone and a car key. Basically it works by having the car recognize the key when it is near and starting the engine...

Android Lands on Sept 23

Next week, T-Mobile will be launching the first mobile phone to run Android. As phones get more feature-rich and more web-enabled, thrid-party development becomes key to an operating system's success. Currently, the iPhone is king of the app hill, but (sanctioned) apps must...

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...

What Girls Want - The Form Factor Of New Media :: Symblogogy

"Jeff Moriarty, Intel’s Mobility Community Manager (center, left) leads a discussion on mobile internet devices and their form factor/function. Image Credit: IntelWhat Girls Want - The Form Factor Of New...

Text message snooping wrecks relationships

A new survey suggests the majority of people who surreptitiously glance at their partner's text messages are in for a rude awakening.According to an online survey by Virgin Mobile Australia, 73 percent of text...

Cellphone Comics: Mobile Manga

Comic books are coming to your mobile phone (Well, they've been doing so already, but not as part of a concerted studio effort, so there we are). Paramount Studios is orchestrating a series of graphic-novel for the tiny screen as tie-ins for existing and upcoming movie...

Telus and Bell to become iPhone-friendly

Canada's second and third-largest cellphone providers are rumoured to announce a conversion to the same network technology used by Rogers, a move that would make them iPhone-compatible.It would also mean that...

Dogs' New Trick: Finding Cellphones Smuggled into Jails

It never ceases to amaze me how many different ways dogs are of service to us. "We could all use one from time to time: a dog that can find the darn cellphone.Maryland has three. Their job is to sniff out phones smuggled into prisons.  "

iPhone 3G Lineup Starts in NYC...One Week Early

Apple addicts, ardent brand loyalists, and members of the uber-eager gadget gang have already begun staking their claim to be some of the first folks to scoop up the 3G iPhone when it is released on July 11th. To...

Nokia buys social networking site Plazes

" HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet services. Plazes (http://www.plazes.com/) provides location-aware services that people...

Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos

"Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos By Jenna Wortham June 09, 2008 | 5:37:20 PMCategories: Advertising, Video, Viral, Web/Tech   YouTube videos that show a group of friends...

Pro Footballers charged with burglary

A handful of people get thrills from snatching up someone else's germ-laden mobile phones. Two pro footballers certainly thought so. " Southampton Football Club striker Bradley Wright-Phillips, 23, and winger Nathan...

Relief Money Used for Nike Runners

Can you believe this? Staff at a branch of ICBC, the biggest bank in China, used relief fund to buy themselves 56 pairs of Nike runners. Misappropriation of funds had always been a concern, but you would have never...

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