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| SMS Antivirus Officially Rolled out |  | 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 to send an SMS message to "106575020236" and wait a few minutes until one of the Rising engineers analyzes ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2008, 17:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| SMS Spam Back in Action |  | 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 were quickly stopped and since then, only a few but minor cases have been reported.
Today, Celtel Kenya, a teleco ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 06:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Don't Worry about Your Brains, Mobiles Only Fry Users' Hands |  | 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 cancer.
The researchers' explanations would always detail on the fact that, while using the mobile phone, us ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 11:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The First Cheap Ferrari Cell Phone |  | 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 produ ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 10:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Electronic Arts Brings More Mobile Games |  | 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, ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 19:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nomophobia, the Fear of Being Mobile-less |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2008, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CTIA Wireless 2008: Fox Entertainment Launched Its Impressive Mobile Portal |  | 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 available for wireless subscribers.
Accessible at ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Giant Cell Phone Weighs 22 Kilograms |  | 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, based on its normal mobile phone, reports ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Rolls Out Windows Mobile 6 Compatible Service |  | 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 or browse the community photos straight from their WM6 gadgets.
"Today, we're launching another special ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 02:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New TeaShark Mobile Browser Aims For Opera's Success |  | 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.
... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 10:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Mobile 6.1 to Come on April the 1st |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 14:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola Breaks Up in Two Independent Companies |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 10:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Online Text Message Spam under Probe |  | 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 market in the world, China.
The scandal currently underway has been dubbed "Text-message Gate" by the Chin ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Search Got Sped Up on Mobile Phones |  | 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 charging made having a phone that could access the web completely useless – nobody really used that function on ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 08:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Verizon Brings Automotive Content on Mobile Phones |  | 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 will bring users the latest automotive images from Car and Driver, the famous American automotive magazine.
Ca ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 11:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Midomi Brings Any Song You Want on Your S60 Handset |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia to Introduce Quadro FX 3600M Professional Mobile Graphics Chip |  | 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 most intensive video operations.
"Design professionals, who rely on the high-performance and advanced featu ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 11:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mobile Phone Radiation Changes the Skin Structure! |  | 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 research has connected the use of cell phones for many hours daily to a 50% increase on the likelihood of developing ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Second Life, the Famous Virtual World, Available on Mobile Phones |  | 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 a game / 3D ... [read more >>] | | 23 February 2008, 04:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MWC 2008: Disney Launched its New Platform for Mobile Phones |  | 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 and anywhere, the new portal is available to any WAP-enabled mobile phone owner and can be accessed by entering ... [read more >>] | | 13 February 2008, 04:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Teams Up With ST Microelectronics for Cellphone CPU |  | 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 sim ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 04:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mac Funamizu Is Not Mac News |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 03:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MWC 2008: The First Linux Handsets From LiMo Unveiled |  | 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 mobile devices. The initial LiMo-based handsets are confirmed by industry leaders including Motorola, ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 12:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Micron to Introduce World's Fastest Mobile DRAM Memory |  | 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 becomes a critical element for the system's overall performance.
Micron's Mobile DRAM meets the mobile users� ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia Starts Producing Cellphone Graphics Chips |  | 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, 65-nanometer production node and comes with a 750 MHz ARM 11 with 256 KB of L2 cache, energy-efficient graphic ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Lenovo Quits the Mobile Business |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 31 January 2008, 15:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Available For Most 3G Mobile Phones |  | 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 mo ... [read more >>] | | 28 January 2008, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Prehistoric Tribes Clubbing On Your Mobile |  | 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. T ... [read more >>] | | 27 January 2008, 05:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| DoCoMo and Google Shake on Japan Mobile Market |  | 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 includes Internet searches and email, with an outspoken plan to make DoCoMo users’ access to Gmail, YouTube, and Pi ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| All of YouTube’s Videos for You! |  | Until now, only a few thousand videos from YouTube were accessible on the mobile platform out of the tens of millions available. Well, not any longer, as today the video sharing site has expanded its mobile service to include its entire collection. And that’s not all! Most of the features that have made its website so well received have been implemented, such as the rating of videos and sharing them with friends.
A good decision on the ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia and Facebook to Come Together |  | 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’s not little.
The deal that paidcontent.com first heard about is said to have implications at all levels, including givi ... [read more >>] | | 21 January 2008, 19:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Kids Filter Option to Be Added |  | 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 access to specific URLs that are selected from the net star Ltd.’s list classification standard.
There are many c ... [read more >>] | | 14 January 2008, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel to Add More CPU Codes to the Montevina Lineup |  | 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 order to claim its lion's share of the processor market. As Santa Rosa is already old news and the upcoming ... [read more >>] | | 11 January 2008, 06:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Just Ask.com if You Need Directions |  | 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 in an ocean of humiliation the moment they pull over and ask somebody on the sidewalk for directions.
Understandable, but not quite. It i ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Freedom for the Masses! |  | 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 offe ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 10:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cell-phone Conversations Slow Down the Traffic |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 03 January 2008, 09:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ChaCha for Mobiles Out Now |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 03 January 2008, 08:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| P2i Ion-Mask Solves Underwater Phone "Adventures" |  | 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 new technology, any mobile phone can turn into a real ... [read more >>] | | 03 January 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Guitar Hero III Available from Verizon Wireless |  | 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, ... [read more >>] | | 21 December 2007, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 'Big Trouble on Little Earth' Launched by Gamevil |  | 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 ou ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 10:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Study Says that Old School Landline Phones Are Favored over Wireless Alternative |  | 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 things at once and boosting the social life of an individual with the option to talk to many people at once about differ ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 08:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google's Android OS Is Out Now |  | 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, e ... [read more >>] | | 19 December 2007, 07:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| N-Gage to Release a Detective Adventure for Mobiles |  | 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 avai ... [read more >>] | | 17 December 2007, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FREE Wallpapers, Ringtones and Themes for ANY Mobile Phone |  | Zedge is one of the best resources of mobile content on the web, as it offers free wallpapers, screensavers, themes, ringtones and games for most of the mobile phones ever released. But today, even more mobile content joined the Zedge offering, being provided by artists, labels and managers. For example, Cypress Hill, DEVO, The Midnight Youth and other artists created profile pages on Zedge that offer exciting content to all the ... [read more >>] | | 14 December 2007, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mobile Hacker Finally Caught by the Police |  | I must admit this 22-year-old man from Queensland found one of the smartest ideas to remain anonymous while conducting illegal activities on the web: he used a handheld device to infiltrate into unprotected wireless networks and connected to the web using the owner's details. This way, he could launch any attack he wanted, because he couldn't be identified since the provided information led the authorities to the netwo ... [read more >>] | | 11 December 2007, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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