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Nokia has confirmed that the major vulnerabilities reported by Polish security researcher Adam Gowdiak are valid. The Java Micro Edition vulnerabilities affect the very popular Nokia Series 40 phones and can result in vital phone functions being compromised.Earlier this month, Security Explorations, a Polish security... |
22 August 2008
04:11 GMT |
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If you haven't been reading the news lately, yes, Apple finally introduced the iPhone 3G. The device uses 3G networking, GPS, sports enterprise support, third party application support, will be available in around 70 countries, and will be more affordable. iPhone 3G is an overall better-performing device at a lo... |
10 June 2008
16:09 GMT |
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Nokia, one of the top companies on the mobile market, might create some new Linux-based, Internet-focused devices, as the interest in such appliances is growing, Reuters is reporting. Although Linux is not widely used on cellphones, the situation is beginning to change, and Google's Android platform is one good ... |
26 May 2008
04:15 GMT |
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In less than two years, users will have their mobile phones shipped with built-in browsers, designed mainly for that specific phone. According to Google's mobile engineering director, Ann Mei Chang, "Within a year, you'll see all manufacturers have full browsing, at least on the high-end phones. This is a t... |
14 May 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Rogers Wireless users will be happy to find out that their favorite wireless carrier has just signed an agreement with Yahoo, which is meant to enhance the quality of Rogers Wireless' products. The agreement also includes Fido, which, along with Rogers Wireless, is on the most important Canadian mobile carrier. ... |
13 May 2008
11:22 GMT |
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Chinese security company Rising has launched what seems to be one of the most innovative consumer-oriented security services ever created: an SMS antivirus solution which allows users who encounter problems with the security of their computers to get professional help in a matter of minutes. All a user has to do is t... |
30 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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The SMS spam is a different meaning of the term spam and even if it occurs quite rarely, it's extremely difficult to block it. A long time ago, one year or so, there were multiple reports revealing massive SMS attacks which harmed the mobile phone owners from multiple regions of the world. However, the attacks w... |
29 April 2008
06:10 GMT |
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Ever since mobile phones got popular on the worldwide markets, researchers have been trying to find a link between their emitted radiation and brain cancer conditions. However, given the fact that the achieved results are absolutely irrelevant, anti-mobile phone groups started to pinch other sensitive chords: gonad c... |
25 April 2008
11:11 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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EA Mobile unveiled the availability of many EA games for mobile devices that run on BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems. The new titles include popular games like Bejeweled and Tetris and are available as payed downloads.EA Mobile has already published various games for Symbian, BlackBerry and Wi... |
7 April 2008
19:06 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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Fox, the giant American TV and film company, announced the launch of Fox Entertainment Mobile Network, a new web portal for mobile phones. The new portal was unveiled during CTIA Wireless 2008 (1 - 3 April, Las Vegas), and it is set to bring one of the widest ranges of TV programs and video content ever made availabl... |
3 April 2008
17:06 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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Google has rolled out several mobile services until now but none of them was designed to work on Windows Mobile 6 devices. However, this needs some changes so, today, the Mountain View company officially introduces a Windows Mobile 6 compatible version of Picasa Web Albums, allowing users to view photos, slideshows o... |
3 April 2008
02:21 GMT |
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TeaShark is a mobile browser that works on any handset with Java MIDP 2.0, and it was first released in the fall of 2007. Now the browser comes with several enhancements and, according to its producers, it has more features than any other mobile browser out there.Besides having extra features, TeaShark is also free ... |
27 March 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Windows Mobile 6.1, the newest version of Microsoft's OS for mobile devices, should have been launched at MWC 2008, at the beginning of February, but the giant software company postponed its release for unknown reasons. Now it looks like the new OS will be available starting April the 1st, and Pocket-Lint re... |
26 March 2008
14:33 GMT |
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Motorola, the American mobile industry giant, just announced via a press release that it will split up to form two independent companies in order to achieve a better management of its business(es). The news comes in a quite difficult period for Motorola, as the company was surpassed by Samsung in terms of mobi... |
26 March 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Spam has followed the natural evolution course of advertising. First designed only for computers, now, as the mobile ads continue to increase in importance, the unwanted messages have ported to the handheld devices in a flash. What better place to target with such an attack than the biggest mobile communications mark... |
24 March 2008
06:58 GMT |
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The new flat-rate data plans from phone carriers is overwhelming, pure and simple, and it is fueling the rate at which the Internet is accessed via mobile handheld devices up to rocket speed. That has not always been the story; there was a time (which I like to refer to as "The Dark Ages") when the per-minute chargin... |
20 March 2008
08:00 GMT |
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Not long after iTunes was declared the second-largest music retailer in the United States, catching up mighty fast to Best-Buy, Apple's iPhone just took the lead in the US thanks to Safari, as far as mobile web browsing goes. The mobile version of Apple's Safari is the second most used browser for the same ... |
19 March 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless thought about all the automotive enthusiasts out there that are equally enthusiastic about cell phones, and today launched a new application called Car and Driver SlideShow. Developed by Viva Vision, a top provider of mobile entertainment content, the application is an interactive SlideShow one that ... |
11 March 2008
11:54 GMT |
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Melodis Corporation, a company based in Sunnyvale, California, announced the releases of midomi mobile, an innovative music search engine for Symbian S60 mobile phones. The new application allows you to find music by singing, humming or whistling into your phone the song you want to download. The search engine acce... |
28 February 2008
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Nvidia introduced a new generation of graphics processors for notebook systems. The Nvidia Quadro FX 3600M is a professional GPU that gives a new definition to graphics performance and advanced visual computing. Dedicated to designers, engineers, and scientists, the GPU can offer the necessary graphics power for the ... |
25 February 2008
11:18 GMT |
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You would stay for hours talking on your brand-new mobile phone. Do you think that the molecules of your body are non-responsive to the radiation emitted by the mobile phones?You should know that researchers have linked radiation of 884 MHz to insomnia, headaches and concentration difficulties. A recent Israeli resea... |
25 February 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Vollee, the US-based mobile entertainment company, announced it would bring the Second Life experience to 3G mobile phones. Beta trials of Second Life for mobiles will be open to users starting May 2008 and will be free of charge. If you don't know what Second Life is, we'll tell you. It's a sort of... |
23 February 2008
04:40 GMT |
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The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) announced at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain, its new ad-supported Disney.co.uk portal for mobile phones, which brings the Disney digital entertainment experience closer to mobile consumers. Following Disney's philosophy to provide compelling content anytime a... |
13 February 2008
04:29 GMT |
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Nvidia has rolled out the APX 2500 mobile CPU with integrated graphics, the company's first application processor for handheld devices. Few hours later, another CPU for cellphones emerged from the ST Microelectronics laboratories. The CPU not only has similar features with Nvidia's chip, but it also integra... |
12 February 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Given that more Mac users/fans will be somewhat mislead by Mac Funamizu's name appearing in headlines recently, here's what this non-Mac news is all about. Funamizu has this idea of developing a gadget that incorporates a camera and a scanner. The built-in GPS could use Google Maps "or an improved image sea... |
12 February 2008
03:37 GMT |
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LiMo Foundation, the global consortium of mobile leaders providing an open handset platform for the entire mobile industry, announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the first handsets based on the LiMo Platform - the world's first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for... |
11 February 2008
12:08 GMT |
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Memory specialist Micron Technology announced that it has started sampling industry's fastest 512 Mb Mobile DRAM component, that will power the upcoming notebook and ultra-mobile PC systems. Mobile applications are increasingly growing and demand more and more resources from a version to another, and memory beco... |
11 February 2008
10:43 GMT |
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Graphics expert Nvidia has announced its first processor targeted at cellphone applications. The chip will power the cellphones' displays and will be able to handle resolutions up to 720 pixels, extremely close to what nowadays' sub-notebooks are currently capable of. The processor is built using the older,... |
11 February 2008
02:58 GMT |
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LiMo Foundation, a multinational consortium of leading mobile companies, announced the release of LiMo Platform, the first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices, together with the immediate public availability of the API (application programming interface) specifications. The platform... |
5 February 2008
11:28 GMT |
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Lenovo, the giant Chinese electronics manufacturer mainly known for producing desktop PCs and laptops, announced it will quit the mobile phone industry and sell its mobile division for $100 million to Legend Holdings Ltd., one of its main shareholders. 2007 was a great financial year for Lenovo, with overall prof... |
31 January 2008
15:10 GMT |
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Red Bend, a US-based market leader in Mobile Software Management, announced the introduction of MAST, the first Linux mobile phone with software that can be completely customized over the air. Red Bend worked with other industry-leading companies like Opera, Digital Airways, Zi, Synchronica and Trolltech (which will ... |
30 January 2008
09:23 GMT |
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YouTube, world's largest video sharing website that holds together more than 60 million videos, announced its intention to extend its coverage to a larger range of mobile device, in order to allow more than 100 million users to browse the website via their mobile phones. The new Mobile YouTube will be accessible... |
28 January 2008
06:38 GMT |
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THQ Wireless, the well-known American developer and publisher of video games, announced the future availability of Prehistoric Tribes, a new mobile game that combines sim-like features with strategy gaming in the vein of the old but much appreciated Age of Empires. The new title comes after the success of Prehistoric... |
27 January 2008
05:06 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company concluded that the many people in the Internet savvy Asia are worth every effort, so they decided to strengthen the company's position there by teaming up with NTT DoCoMo Inc., the biggest mobile operator company in Japan, Reuters reports.The service that the two will be providing... |
24 January 2008
16:16 GMT |
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If the deal were to go through, it would be one of the best things that could have ever happened to the social network. It would give it the prominence in the mobile world that none has and in return for it there's nothing it would be actually giving up, perhaps some stake for Nokia in Facebook. Ok, ok, that... |
21 January 2008
19:46 GMT |
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The Japanese giant SoftBank Mobile has announced the soon to be here implementation of their Yahoo Kids content filter option, as a result of the increasing concern that clients under 18 of age may access adult related content. As the announcement states, the "Web use limitation" is a function designed to limit the a... |
14 January 2008
08:59 GMT |
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Intel has undoubtedly had a good start this year: the company came up with a new line of miniature solid-state drives to keep the Menlow platform warn. Not to mention the Consumer Electronics Show launch frenzy, when Intel pushed 16 new processors in a single shot.Unlike the AMD competitors, Intel is moving fast in o... |
11 January 2008
06:49 GMT |
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Don't you dare say you've never heard of this before, because it isn't true and you know it! Besides, if you lie, it will count on Santa's list of people who have been good and/or naughty for the Christmas to come. Asking directions is an expiation for some drivers who feel that they are stranded ... |
7 January 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Not all the manufacturers have realized that there's a huge market out there for people who are just interested in making and receiving phone calls, no need for advanced and complicated devices, which are used only at 5% of what they could really offer. There's also a huge market comprised of elderly users,... |
4 January 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Until now, it has been well known that talking on your cellphone while driving could get dangerous. A new survey shows that talking on your mobile while in traffic may cause some delays as well. That's pretty logical as the one who's driving has to focus his attention not only on the traffic, but on the con... |
3 January 2008
09:59 GMT |
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ChaCha - this is not a name that everybody knows. No, not like Google. But like Google or Yahoo!, ChaCha is a search engine. It uses the same working mechanism as the others, meaning the user will enter a search term to find what he / she is looking for and then click the "ChaCha Search" button. Like any other search... |
3 January 2008
08:37 GMT |
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For many mobile phone users, water can be a real problem. No matter if it's related to a sudden rain, a swimming pool, a toilet or just a puddle of water, a normal phone will not coop up well with a situation like that. But for any of these situations, there might be a solution called the P2i Ion-Mask. With this... |
3 January 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Guitar Hero got itself quite hooked on the gaming industry. It started as a PlayStation 2 game and worked its way up to other consoles, such as Xbox, DS, PlayStation 3, PC and, now, the mobile phones will be rocked by this game as well.Verizon Wireless, together with Hands-On Mobile, one of the world's leading d... |
21 December 2007
04:46 GMT |
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Gamevil is one of the biggest global mobile games publishers, with headquarters both in Los Angeles and in Seoul (Korea). Today, they've made the big announcement that informs us that the company is launching the Big Trouble on Little Earth game.Now that we know the game is out, you can take your mobile phone an... |
20 December 2007
10:30 GMT |
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The online era at hand doesn't look that appealing and all-encompassing, after reading the report that Pew issued a few days ago. It clearly states that teenagers still prefer meeting face to face over chatting via the Internet among other things.It's really understandable, despite being able to do a lot of... |
20 December 2007
08:51 GMT |
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After lots of rumors about the open source operating system made by Google, called Android, the marvelous creation is finally out and running. The first impression that Android made is that it is going to be a huge phone operating system, and from all the tests that have been made, everybody can say the same thing.Th... |
19 December 2007
07:40 GMT |
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Nokia comes back into play with a new game release for mobiles called "Dirk Spanner and the Fallen Idol". Developed by the Jadestone, the maker of other mobile games, like Sea o'Fortune or Kudos, the Dirk Spanner and the Fallen Idol, will be available through N-Gage. For those who don't know, N-Gage is a ga... |
17 December 2007
06:30 GMT |
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