All Posts Tagged With: "mobiles"
This time the leak wasn’t Nokia’s, it was Microsoft’s turn with the new mobile OS and also an emulator for IE 6 shows up.
The website Smartphonefrance has managed to obtain the first images of the upcoming OS, first uttered from the lips of Steve Ballmer at an Australian press conference on the tail end of [...]
British company Virtuity known for a similar technology on laptops, has developed the BackStopp Mobile software which eviscerates data on a phone if stolen or lost.
If either of those two worst case scenarios come true, the company uses the mobiles own comms to track down said phone anywhere in the world.
When the handset has been [...]
Respecting developing countries and helping them getting their first footing on the mobile ladder, Nokia has come up with 7 handsets aimed at such markets.
They’re focussing this spate of devices on providing internet access, email, agriculture and education to those places in an effort “to bridge the digital divide”.
Besides offering their lowest cost phones to [...]
All it needs is Nokia (for example) to add Near-Field-Communication (transaction capabilities) and woooosh, we’ve got a whole new ball game.
A new analysis of the NFC mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 700m mobile subscribers globally will have phones equipped with NFC contactless technology by 2013. NFC will enable users to make payments with their mobile [...]
Joikusoft - the developers behind the JoikuSpot software, which turns wi-fi enabled Symbian S60 phones into hotspots - has teamed up with wi-fi sharing bunch FON to release a new version of the client that will let wi-fi enabled devices from iPods to laptops to share your S60’s 3G connection.
The new software will allow FON’s [...]
It’s odd to think about your own mortality but a recent story has got me doing just that. And I’ve come to the conclusion that should there be an earthquake and I was trapped under the building my mobile would leave me to die a slow agonising death. Its battery is simply not strong enough.
Have [...]
My Mum has been bugging me to write this for ages. Shes a normob, at the lowest level; shes had her current mobile for around seven months now, and she still doesnt know half of the features available to her. She cant navigate too well, and she finds anything with buttons highly confusing (she cant [...]
Continue ReadingHow often do you check the web from your mobile? What stops you?
According to new research by ICM Research and the London School of Economics (LSE) has suggested that nearly half of the UK mobile phone owners are checking it daily. 45 per cent (albeit the study doesn’t say of how many) check [...]
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