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Satellite Hopes To Make Deadzones a Thing of the Past

The world's largest commercial satellite has been launched into earth orbit with the goal of providing mobile phone service to "dead zones" all across North America. Owned by Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, the satellite is designed to pick up and relay signals from mobile phones. ...

Verizon and Sprint to Launch Blackberry World Phone

You could say that with the help of Verizon, RIM's latest Blackberry is going on world tour. In fact, that's exactly what's going on in the latest word that Verizon Wireless will launch the BlackBerry Tour on July 12 for $200 with a new two-year contract. The Tour is loaded with m...

Is plain vanilla the right goal?

...nders. And as part of their new rules, mortgage lenders would have to offer customers what Obama is calling "plain vanilla" mortgage loan products alongside more complex mortgage options. T...

Sony Next to Release an iPhone Killer

We often talk about attempts to dethrone the immensely popular iPhone and it looks like consumer electronics giant Sony is about to take a stab at it next. Sony has released word that it is considering setting up a project team as early as July to make a new device that combines the functions...

Introducing the Mio Amber Windows Mobile Smartphone

... MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, microSD support Camera: 5 MP camera with Autofocus, Front VGA camera for video calling GPS: Built-in GPS receiver Connectivity: GPRS, EDGE, HSPA, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 Others: Ac...

Verizon's New Global Smartphone Aims for the Ozone

Tired of worrying about whether or not your cell phone will work when traveling abroad? Verizon understands where you're coming from and, with HTC, are planning on bringing a true global handset to the market. Set to run Windows Mobile 6.1 this new smartphone will run on both CDMA and GSM...

Motorola Karma Has Texting in Mind

...ooking to use their phones to send text messages and access social networking sites like Facebook. Calling this new handset the Karma, Motorola says that the design will be especially pleasing to ind...

T-Mobile's New Android Phone Coming Soon

... ace up their sleeve in the ongoing struggle to dethroning the Apple iPhone coming out this August. Calling it the myTouch 3G, its new Google Android equipped phone is a more equipped version of the p...

Google Voice Prepares for Launch

...ices, multi-party conferencing, conversion of voice calls to text messages, cut-rate international calling, and call transcription." "The primary sell with Google Voice allows a user to ha...

Change Your Thermostat’s Setting to Save Money on AC

...nt to get one. It is a good idea to set it at a reasonably high temperature, and not go for real cold. This should be around 76 degrees, which is just on the edge of being comfortable for most peopl...

T-Mobile Aims High with the Dash 3G

... Wi-Fi connectivity and 65K-color TFT display. It will also connect and organize users with voice calling, messaging, support for personal and business email, GPS for location-based services and the...

Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law

Apple today officially released the iPhone OS 3.0 software, updating 45 software patches to address rare security vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. The company said the new features include cut, copy and paste, MMS, and push notifications. Analysts expect ...

The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift for a Classic Car Guy

... year the show features the Art of Automobile Advertising and Design. Hey kids, it's your Dad calling! ...

Nokia Announces Successor to the E71 Smartphone

Nokia has answered the question on the minds of business users all around the globe today by announced its E72- an updated version of its top-selling E71 business phone. The company says that the E72 builds on the successful E71; its hot selling QWERTY- equipped smartphone, by adding performa...

IBM's confusing cloud strategy

...39;s largesse. But if IBM is simply shopping around some sales, consulting, and SaaS offerings and calling them cloud computing, what does that do for the actual concept? Does it gain legitimacy with...

Vopium-Free VOIP Application for Smartphones

Vopium is a carrier-grade mobile telephony service designed to offer affordable and reliable international calls from any mobile handset. By using the Vopium application on their mobile to make calls from their home country, consumers and businesses alike can save up to 90% on international mobi...

Motorola Rival Coming to Verizon

Texters on the Verizon network have reason to celebrate in the form of the Rival from Motorola. Designed specifically for the challenges of texting, the Rival features a 2.2-inch screen and a backlit QWERTY keyboard that lights up either red or green depending on entry mode. The handset offer...

Archos Makes Sexy Portable Tablet Because Apple Won't

... that as a major win for Microsoft, Archos, and all of us tablet loving people out there. Archos is calling it the MiniPC the the super sexy tablet, but that is ok; it simply is a nice looking system ...

Nokia Hopes Cell Phones will No Longer Require Chargers

Quick- what's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of charging your cell phone? If you said a cord, an electrical outlet or even a docking station, you may want to read on. Nokia researchers are working on development of cellular phone charging by simply capturing ambient rad...

Apple Slashes Prices on the iPhone

Apple Inc. slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half as well as lowered some of their laptop prices today; the company's first dramatic price cuts since the recession began a year and a half ago. The 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G, which came out last year, now costs $99, instead of $199. The 1...

T-Mobile To Release Second Android Phone While Samsung Targets Photogs

T-Mobile, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier, is hoping to increase its rank by launch its second smartphone to run Google's Android operating system in a few weeks. While details aren't overly specific just yet, the new smartphone is slotted to run Google's codenamed "Cupcake&q...

Inq To Release Twitter Handset

It was only a matter of time… Let's face it, as a whole, the world is quick to adopt a trend, run with it, and then leave it for dead. First it was Myspace then Facebook. Now the world is Twitter-obsessed and to that end mobile phone maker INQ Mobile plans to launch a Twitter phone in time...

Sipgate vs. Skype

...pgate, which has operated a successful VoIP business in Europe since 2004, launched a new free VoIP calling play in the U.S. that aims to disrupt the landline telephony business," writes FierceV...

Prepare Your Kids Against Head Lice This Summer

...ow, head lice is one of the most contagious conditions among children, only second to the common cold. As the weather gets warmer, schools close for the summer and kids venture off to camp, they are o...

Palm Pre has Captured Wireless Carriers' Attention

Business users and smartphone fans alike are anxiously counting down the days until Palm's Pre hits the market. In a surprising move, the Pre will launch on June 6 for $200 exclusively for Sprint. As expected, the remaining domestic carriers have their sights set on the Pre as well. Earli...

Beer company to contribute to social entrepreneurship movement

...;Put Your Signature Next to Arthur's" campaign in conjunction with the fund. They're calling for all Irish pub-goers to sign their name on a banner next to Arthur's signature as an ex...

Kinoma Introduces World’s First Mobile Social Media Browser

With today's release of Kinoma Play, the leading way to find, play and share media on a mobile phone is now also the best way to find, play and share media across social networks and media services like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa. The new release of Kinoma Play for Win...

NewsCorp negotiates with "parasite" Google

... more creative. Which suggests that Google will have the whip hand in these negotiations. The name calling won't have helped....

A Week With the 2010 Subaru Impreza 5-door Proves Hatchback Superiority

... is "the car you should drive before you drive anything else." Note: Subaru refrains from calling this a hatch or wagon, although it is both. If I were a family man, I'd be attracted to...

Nokia Announces 6600i - Slimmest Camera phone to Date

Nokia, the world's leading handset maker, has announced the 6600i Slide, its smallest 5.0-megapixel equipped slider to date. The company said that tucked within the handset's brushed steel shell is an upgraded 5.0-megapixel camera with a dual LED flash. It features a hidden external...

China's today national distribution capabilities

...ently done a Q&A with Jean Pierre Chesse , the founder and CEO of Sinodis, a food importer and cold chain lo-gistics service provider in China. I went through the piece and even though the interv...

LG Glance Coming Soon To Verizon

While the slim candy bar-style handset may not be the first form factor that comes to mind for business use, but apparently that isn't slowing Verizon down any. The company is set to launch an all-new candy bar from LG next month aimed at business users known as the Glance VX7100. The han...

Google Squared

...y response from Google? TechCrunch had a piece a few days ago on something the people at Google are calling Google Squared ... The idea is to treat the web as a database of information and mine it. ...

Samsung's Affordable T349 Comes To T-Mobile

T-Mobile, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier, has launched the Samsung T349, a slim messaging phone with a 20-key, partial QWERTY keypad and XT9 enhanced predictive text for faster text messaging. Multiple messaging options include email, instant message, picture messaging, vide...

BroadSoft and Acme Packet Enhance Joint SIP Trunking Solution

I published an article today at VoIP Planet looking at BroadSoft and Acme Packet 's recent announcement of a series of enhancements to their joint SIP trunking solution for large enterprise customers, which integrates BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform with Acme Pa...

Tasty Alternatives to Milk

...table for those with tree nut allergies 3. Coconut Milk - a viable option particularly in recipes calling for milk or cream. It tastes rather strong, though, and I can't imagine using it as a bev...

Mauri Pioppo Jewelry

...ith the physical demands of dancing, Mauri sought the restorative help of yoga and found her second calling as yoga instructor. Following a vision born out of her practice, Mauri has since become a hi...

AT&T Considers Dropping Cost of IPhone Plans

AT&T is considering offering cheaper data plans with limited Web surfing as early as late May in hopes of significantly boosting iPhone sales. The possible price cut (to $60 a month; a $10 reduction off the current lowest plan) reflects the back-and-forth negotiations between AT&T and...

Jolie B. Ray Jewelry

... Gold and Gemstone Jewelry Tanya Tochner and Marjorie Troob have found a calling and a true connection, designing jewelry. After having careers in the corporate world and raising young children, t...

Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?

... deal less open to further internal criticism. Second, EquaTerra short-circuits the deal process, calling for "general" agreements instead of detailed SOWs and risk-sharing. No doubt, SOWs ...

Nokia Announces World's Cheapest G3 Phones

Hey times are tough here in the US- Nokia realizes that not everyone wants to break the proverbial bank just to enjoy the high-speed capabilities of the G3 network. As such he world's top handset maker has unveiled its 2720 Fold and 7020 series phones, including the 2730 Classic - the chea...

Vodafone HTC Magic Review

The folks at Android Community have posted a review of the HTC Magic, which was recently launched by Vodafone UK. Here are the positives and negatives of the HTC Magic as mentioned in the review:

Sprint Follows Verizon with Personal Wi-Fi

A week after rival Verizon Wireless announced its plans to offer a personal Wi-Fi device, Sprint says that its ready to launch its own "Mobile Hotspot" gadget, a portable unit that creates a localized Wi-Fi cloud to share high-speed Internet with wireless electronics like laptops, ne...

Alias 2 Announced for Verizon

Verizon Wireless has launched the Samsung Alias 2, a dual-hinge clamshell with a morphing keyboard that uses the same display technology found on the Amazon Kindle. Rather than a jumble of keys with small labels, the handset's keypad actually changes depending on what users are doing. So ...

D u s t y T u n e s

...Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data? • 音集协回应巨额版权费质疑 • Calling All Coders: Journalism Schools Want You To Save The News Industry • Why We Need to Reach the Stars (and We Will) • CEOs Who Use Twit...

Stenson Wins; Tiger Falters

... Courtesy: bleacherreport.com They have been calling it "the 5th major" for some years, now. Yet, The Players Championship is as far away from becoming golf's fifth major as it was o...

Madoff's secretary tells all. What's next?

...the ass'. " Squillari also tells how in the days after his arrest, Ruth Madoff would keep calling Squillari and try to get the secretary to provide her with certain information without notif...

Facebook Comes to Windows Mobile

Software giant Microsoft has released a Facebook application that allows Windows Mobile 6 users create wall posts, share photos, send messages, update profile pictures and even upload videos. The free software, creatively dubbed Facebook for Windows Mobile 6 , is the first app to let users u...

BlackBerry Curve Dethrones iPhone

Oh boy, it seems like everyone under the sun has been scurrying to develop a smartphone that could dethrone the might iPhone and it looks like it finally happened, at least as far as the First Quarter of 2009 is concerned. According to market researchers at The NPD Group, Research in Motion&#...

HP to Get on the Blackberry Software Train

The BlackBerry line of smartphones is already known for being business-friendly but the software available for these phones is about to get a boost. Research In Motion (RIM) and computer giant Hewlett-Packard said they have agreed to a strategic alliance to design and sell business software fo...

Microsoft Plans its iPhone Killer

Don't for a minute believe that a company can have the type of success that Apple has had with its iPhone and not have everyone else gunning for them. The latest in a long list of handsets designed to steal a piece of the iPhone pie comes from none other than the maker of Windows. Softwar...

Introducing Truphone 3.0

Truphone this week released Truphone 3.0 , a significant upgrade to the company's free mobile VoIP app for the iPhone. "Truphone leverages Wi-Fi networks to provide free voice calls - worldwide - to other Truphone users and to your Google Talk and Skype contacts," writes CN...

Verizon Pushes for Apple iPad

Apple's iFamily is about to increase by a member if Verizon Wireless has its way. The wireless company is in talks with Apple to distribute a media pad device that would let users listen to music, view photos, watch high-definition videos and make calls over its Wi-Fi connection. The devi...

Samsung's First Android Phone Hits Europe

Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, today unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered smartphone. Measuring just 11.9mm thick, the I7500 features a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen display, high-speed 7.2Mbps HSDPA Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity. Additiona...

Skype 推出新的资费套餐，每月仅需 6 美元

...de leader in online communications, announces that it is expanding its calling subscription options in the U.S. and Canada. People can select an Unlimited Country subscription which includes unlimited...

New Nokia Handset That Thinks It's a Credit Card

Just when we thought we'd seen it all- Nokia announces that its latest handset can act as a credit card! Its 6216 classic may look like a regular cell phone but it has the ability to securely store a user's credit card information on the SIM card using NFC (Near Field Communication...

To panic, or not to panic

...An article by Bruce Perens just popped up on Slashdot discussing what he is calling a "Cyber-Attack" on April 9 in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties in Northern California. A slightly le...

PC Maker Acer Launches its Cellular Line

Computer giant Acer launched a complete line of smartphones for the Asia-Pacific region. The Taiwan-based company, best known for its PCs and laptops has finalized its ambitions to gain a share of the lucrative smartphone market. With its five new models, the company professes lofty ambition...

Tips for Accurate Blood Glucose Testing

...Avoid storing meters and test strips in areas that experience varied temperatures, including heat, cold, sunlight or moisture. This can cause meters to produce error messages or damage chemical reagen...

How a nut case blogger fooled the market

... impact on the market. One reason is the FT Alphaville blog giving the report some credibility by calling it "something of a scoop". Sad really when newspapers get too lazy to double check...

How Does Free Mobile TV Sound to You?

Of all the various mobile tech news subjects I come on and blog about, it's hard to imagine anything more exciting than announcements like the following. Broadcasters at the nation's capital have decided Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV for mobile devices. ...

Sony Ericsson Delays Android Phones

Although sony was hoping to adopt Google's hot new Android software as soon as possible, delays associated with trying to develop its own take on the operating system have resulted in their opting to use the tried and true Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms. This comes right as the ...

Apple About to Break Milestone

You know you're doing something right when you start posting numbers like Apple's been enjoying. The maker of the iPhone and iPod Touch is fast approaching a billion downloads for its online App Store. The company unveiled a Web page dedicated to tracking the number of downloads unti...

Google Updates GMail For Android Users

The good news about a single company, in this case Google, owning a whole line of related aps is that they can address issues directly. The company has released a new version of Gmail for their Android-powered smartphones (that also works on Apple's iPhone software) that is not only faste...

Canadian Golf Prepares for Storm

...rth America. The bite of winter has been replaced by the cool winds of spring but there is still a cold feel to the start of the season that goes bone-deep. In Canada, a huge question mark hangs ove...

Virgin Mobile Slashes Prices on Plans

...ier wireless competitors. Beginning April 15th, Virgin Mobile will drop the price of its unlimited calling plan from $80 to $50 a month. Current customers with the $80 plan will have to contact the ...

Skype's Founders Want Their Company Back

...private equity firms and are pooling their own substantial resources to make a bid for the Internet calling service, say several people with knowledge of their plans," Stone writes. "The two...

Take your photography pro

...o from being a hobby amateur photographer to a full blown pro, offering your services in return for cold, hard, cash. It's a great way to get a little bit of extra income on the side, and while I...

Apple's Plans to Keep Next iPhone Quiet Foiled

Taiwanese handset component suppliers have started shipping parts for the successor to the Apple iPhone 3G possibly launching in June. Apple has been just pounded by persistent rumors of new handset launches, with reports of a next generation iPhone gaining momentum recently. The rumors int...

Ford Transit Connect Family One Concept Vehicle incorporates RFID

...t eases the digital lifestyle of the parent for activities such as schedules, reminders, hands free calling and to do list which at the end of the day makes a parent smarter and better equipped. It ...