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This year, recycling operations go hand in hand with charity. This green strategy is adopted both by Sprint and Verizon, two companies determined to help the less fortunate ones while diverting millions of old cell phones from landfills.
Sprint and Verizon have developed two trade-in programs to support their goals... |
20 December 2011
05:26 GMT |
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A new malware distribution campaign generates emails posing as Warner Music orders that come with malicious PDF documents attached.The rogue emails have subjects of the form "Your Order No ###### – Warner Music Inc." or "Your Order No ###### – Cell Phone Inc."The contained message informs recipients that ... |
1 April 2011
03:51 GMT |
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Without a doubt, cellphone jammers can really come in handy in certain situations (not the ones most of us encounter on a daily basis, though), and one of the most interesting such products we've come across can be found at Chinavision, this little thing providing both a good level of efficiency in jamming all s... |
2 December 2010
10:41 GMT |
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A film festival organizer in Belfast may have just stumbled across concrete proof that time traveling is possible: extra scenes from Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 “The Circus” show a woman speaking on a cell phone. Since word of what the footage may show got out, short clip has gone viral, causing qui... |
27 October 2010
10:36 GMT |
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GoSolarUSA has announced that staggering sales figures for Apple’s iPod touch prompted the company’s option agreement with Chinese firm Yosion to start selling the Apple Peel 520, an device that traps on the portable media player and adds cell phone functionality.The Apple Peel 520 is described as “... |
13 September 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Many people see a toilet handle as probably the germiest, grossest place ever and, in some cases, they may be right. This is precisely the premise that consumer group Which? started from in its most recent study, meant to show how cell phones can become 18 times more infested with bacteria than said handle, the Daily... |
28 July 2010
15:31 GMT |
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A report over at DailyTech claims Apple has so much experience in restricting the use of its hardware under certain circumstances, that the company has decided to file a patent application to further empower itself to do so. Apple is well known for its habit of locking users down to a single mobile service operator (... |
5 October 2009
05:22 GMT |
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Gadgets such as mobile phones, personal data assistants (PDA), remote controls, and personal music players have been the beneficiaries of a large number of innovations over the past few years, all designed to make their use a lot easier and more intuitive than it was when they were first conceived. But the new device... |
17 February 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Instead of banning cell phones and punishing those who choose to disregard the warning signs, the management of a British school decided to start and fund a nine-month long program in which the cell phones were used to further the educational process. Taking advantage of the large array of accessories that modern pho... |
24 December 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Professor Tahir Cagin, from the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is one of the most renowned experts in nanotechnology and piezoelectricity in the world, having received multiple awards over the years, including the prestigious Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology. His work now fo... |
2 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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New scientific study revealed that talking over the cell phone while driving a car was far more distracting for drivers than discussing something with a passenger inside the vehicle. The research, to be published in American Psychological Association's December issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Ap... |
1 December 2008
02:49 GMT |
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Modern mobile phones have numerous applications installed, as well as a bunch of other features, including photo cameras, blitzes, Bluetooth devices and others. All these accessories take up large amounts of electricity from the battery, prompting users to recharge them more often. This consumes a lot of electric ene... |
26 November 2008
04:49 GMT |
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In fighting obesity, scientists say that self-monitoring of one's weight is an invaluable tool. And while most people do it at first, a large part of them gradually start dismissing the procedure, over the course of the diet. Health experts say that now cell phones could be used to monitor the weight fluctuation... |
12 November 2008
05:08 GMT |
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Your mobile phone, be it high-end or only basic-featured, can do more things than you might be aware of. We're presenting some of these "tricks" below, hoping that they will be of help, although some of you might already know one or more of them. The GSM emergency call is the same all over the world: 112. T... |
28 June 2008
07:33 GMT |
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Digital forensics specialist Paraben Corporation has just announced its newest Cell Seizure Investigator Stick, also known as the CSI Stick. The device is a thumb drive size appliance that can acquire all the data from a suspect's cell phone, including the deleted messages or instant messaging sessions.According... |
14 May 2008
04:09 GMT |
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Cell phones "trapped" inside a wristwatch-like body seem to become more and more popular, as new models continue to appear, bringing interesting looks and/or interesting features. EP2502 is the name of the latest watch mobile phone that comes with a pretty nice design, looking as stylish as any wristwatch produced by... |
7 May 2008
04:41 GMT |
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If you ever thought a wrist-watch mobile phone is too small to run on Windows Mobile, you were wrong. Epoq EGP-WP98B, produced by Epoq Multimedia, seems to be the very first such device. Its WM version is 5.0, and although it can't possibly run on it like on a normal smartphone or Pocket PC, it does run someho... |
18 April 2008
10:55 GMT |
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Since Motorola came out with MotoRAZR Maxx V6 Ferrari Limited Edition, a Ferrari phone is not a new thing to see. But the Maxx V6 only looks like a phone, and not like a car. Assuming that the world might need a phone that actually resembles a Ferrari, an anonymous producer came up with such a handset. And I'm ... |
11 April 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Cool G108 is one of the latest devices to come from China, and while you probably expect it to be a copy of an already existing product, as many Chinese gadgets are, the G108 is a pretty original creation. The device combines a cell phone and a watch into a small case - which is not actually a new idea, but this is ... |
10 April 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Food and mobile phones are both important for our lives, so why not combine them together? Cell phone straps that represent various food items are not something new, but these recently unveiled ones seem to be. Ever thought of wearing a bowl of soup with your phone? I know I haven't, and I also know I don't... |
7 April 2008
20:06 GMT |
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Your phone's alarm buzzes. You wake up. Grab the phone, stop the alarm, check email - nothing important. Call X, set up a meeting for later. Smile. Receive a call from the office - they need you earlier today. Frown. Wash, eat, dress, call Y, send email to W, send cute MMS to Z and decide to call her/him later t... |
5 April 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Slim and lightweight are definitely nice qualities for mobile phones, but the new king of handsets is far from having these attributes, and has all the chances to be designated the biggest functional cell phone in the world. A Mr. Tan, resident of Songyuan, China, worked about half a year to create a huge handset... |
3 April 2008
03:25 GMT |
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What reason(s) do you think would someone have to set on fire hundreds of mobile phones? There aren't many reasonable ones that you can think of, right? Well, a woman from China burned more than 400 handsets because she was dumped by her husband. The couple was living in Weifang, Shandong, somewhere south of ... |
10 March 2008
06:00 GMT |
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General Mobile, a new player in the mobile phone industry, is present at CeBIT 2008 (4 - 9 March 2008) with very interesting products. One of them is GM500, a weird mix of two different devices: a GSM mobile phone and a watch. Measuring only 58.1 x 44.2 x 16.4 mm and weighing 142 grams (battery and metal wristband in... |
5 March 2008
06:16 GMT |
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One of the weirdest cell phone concepts ever is the "Digital Tattoo Interface" imagined by Jim Mielke, and I'm not sure under what category should it be classified: funny, creepy or innovative? The concept entered the "Greener Gadgets Design Competition" initiated by Core77 and Greener Gadgets, and although it d... |
1 March 2008
08:06 GMT |
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Nokia announced today it has started cell phone production on its new factory in Cluj, Romania, marking an important step in the company's future evolution in Eastern Europe. The Cluj plant is Nokia's 11th such production facility in the world and it was first announced back in March 2007. The constructi... |
11 February 2008
07:32 GMT |
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After 9/11, people finally realized what terrorism is capable of and that terrorists would do anything to accomplish their plans. Correlate that with large amounts of missing nuclear fuel from the ex-soviet countries and you get nuclear terrorism. Most of the radioactive detection systems being currently used are pre... |
24 January 2008
05:43 GMT |
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Researchers from Stanford University have discovered a new way to use silicon nanowires in rechargeable batteries that power mobile phones, laptops, video cameras, iPods and other similar devices. The new batteries will be able to store up to ten times more electrical power than existing Li-Ion batteries. "It's ... |
23 December 2007
03:16 GMT |
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U.S. Cellular has launched Your Navigator, a new application that enables customers to use their cell phones as a GPS navigation system. Your Navigator comes at a much lower price than the traditional GPS in-car systems and features turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions with auto-rerouting in case you take a wrong ... |
30 July 2007
09:08 GMT |
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As the release of Rockstar's highly anticipated third-person shooter, Grand Theft Auto IV, approaches (don't get all excited, it's still on for an October 2007 release), the developer tries as much as it can to keep fans updated with what they know at a given time, that will be featured in the game. Th... |
10 July 2007
04:40 GMT |
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Motorola and Kodak announced more than a year ago a cross licensing and marketing alliance created in the attempt to boost the image capture experience of camera cell phones. This announcement was well received by everyone and great expectations followed. To show the customers that they really want to make camera ph... |
23 May 2007
10:44 GMT |
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