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i2Telecom International, Inc. has launched MyGlobalTalk for iPhone. The application serves as the iPhone version of i2Telecom’s popular international calling solution. The app enables US-based users to make cheaper international phone calls by routing calls through the MyGlobalTalk network. i2Telecom Internati... |
2 July 2009
06:18 GMT |
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It's a known fact that cell phones get smaller, lighter, better and harder to detect, since they're largely made of non-metallic materials, and can easily fit into hardly accessible places. This has caused the number of smuggled phones in some state prisons to increase by as much as 100% this year, as comp... |
9 December 2008
11:06 GMT |
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On the heels of Apple's shipping the new In-Ear Headphone set with remote and mic, Software Cellular Network Ltd has released Truphone, a free app that enables iPod touch users to place and receive calls anywhere in the world. The app is also available for iPhone users. From the iTunes App Store, Truphone'... |
4 December 2008
04:59 GMT |
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The moment many have been waiting for is finally here. fring, a WiFi-based VoIP app enabling even owners of an iPod touch to place calls and talk using Apple's new headset with a built-in mic, has been approved by Apple, and can now be acquired from the iTunes App Store. The application is free to download and u... |
6 October 2008
02:43 GMT |
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Teddy bears can hardly be associated with high-end technology, but Japan – the country where almost anything has to do with the T-word – thinks otherwise. The proof is a teddy bear phone concept that was presented during the 2008 Good Design Expo. Dubbed Kuma Phone, the "teddy bear device" is made by... |
2 September 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Phones and cars are often used in the same context and, whether it's just drivers who can't help talking on the phone while on the road, or mobile phones designed in collaboration with famous car manufacturers, the phone - car connections are manifold. Howard Davis, an American businessman who owns a Te... |
21 June 2008
06:34 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger is going to add new VoIP capabilities very soon as the parent company has just signed a deal with JAJAH to improve its premium voice service. Until know, the Sunnyvale-based company has been using its own voice technology but, from now on, JAJAH will be the provider of the "Phone In" and "Phone Out" f... |
29 April 2008
09:59 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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After the popular Chocolate series which brought LG high profits, the South Korean company now comes with a new phone that bears a sweet name, and that is "LG Ice Cream". Not a new device in the true meaning of the word, the Ice Cream phone is an upgraded edition of the LH5000 (or LH-5000) model, first released in ... |
31 March 2008
07:11 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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Until a machine will read your thoughts, a first step has been made: New Scientists signals the development of a neckband that decodes your nerve signals into speech. For the first time, you could make a phone call without opening your mouth.A trained individual can transmit motor messages to its vocal cords without ... |
19 March 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Being famous is all Paris Hilton does, and, by God, she does it so well. If it's not the drama over being banned from the Oscars, it's a photo shoot with her almost naked, and lowering the bar even further, a shower scene and, my gosh, even some sex tapes that were released for the world to see. I guess a b... |
10 March 2008
15:56 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company is pulling a stunt I'm really not getting. Google's Grand Central's senior product manager of voice products, Craig Walker, has just announced that his company will offer free phone numbers and voicemail accounts to people that don't have a home. So far, he claims, ... |
29 February 2008
06:50 GMT |
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The human brain can be fooled, but not this phone. Our mind orientates too much based on the voice, but what a lier may not know is that there are non-perceivable patterns in the sound of a voice that can betray him/her. A new high-tech mobile phone device can secretly decode, based on the pitch and sound analysis of... |
23 February 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Skype launched as a small but promising company and, four and a half years later, it is happy to report that its users have talked 100 billion minutes (probably more by now). Not so long ago, the huge pull that the phone and VoIP company has, drew attention towards it and after an interesting chain of events, eBay bo... |
21 February 2008
03:14 GMT |
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The wireless technology has invaded our lives. But do you think this comes with no consequences on our health? Cell phones expose you for long periods to RF (radio frequencies). A recent research has shown that chatting on a mobile phone before bedtime would cause you insomnia. The team from Sweden's Karolinska ... |
20 February 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Rating is all the latest buzz when it comes to Internet reviewing. You choose a movie or a book, or even a service based on how many stars other people that have already viewed / read / used it have awarded. It's sort of like blending into the crowd and losing your personality when taking other people you don&#... |
19 February 2008
13:11 GMT |
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While recording others' telephone calls may put you out business for quite a few years, recording your own chat can prove a real blessing. Remember those times you would set a business appointment over the phone (or whatever you call talking that sexy office colleague of yours into dating you), then get too exci... |
14 February 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Low battery? This will never be a problem with a new machine that "sucks" power from the movement of the knees while walking. In the new research published in the journal "Science," 6 subjects wearing the devices on their legs while strolling on a treadmill delivered about 5 watts of electrical power each, enough fo... |
8 February 2008
04:03 GMT |
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We are in the middle of a vivid debate regarding how the wireless technology could affect our health."In the long term - 10, 20 and 30 years out - we have a lot less information about potential effects from these types of wireless devices", warns Frank Barnes, a distinguished professor in the electrical and computer ... |
22 January 2008
04:04 GMT |
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"The elite jihadi media group presents the first batch of al-Sahab videos to be downloaded to cell phones", said the announcement posted late Friday by al-Qaeda's media wing, al-Sahab, on the websites commonly used by Islamic militants. On Saturday, eight previously recorded clips were made available, including ... |
7 January 2008
08:28 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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Remember that pay-by-phone exploit that attempted to infect your computer and steal your money? Well, it seems like it is much more dangerous than we've expected. Security company Trend Micro today published an advisory concerning TROJ_RANSOM.B, the Trojan horse that supports the entire attack, saying that it af... |
4 January 2008
02:45 GMT |
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Another day, another scam spotted in the wild. This time, it's a pay-by-phone attack, as the Sunbelt officials named it, because it attempts to steal people's money by phone. Remember that rogue antispyware attacks? Today's scam is pretty similar and let me explain why. First of all, the rogue antispyw... |
3 January 2008
15:11 GMT |
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For those who didn't know, Mobiado is a luxury brand that "runs" in the mobile phone industry. Mobiado is a division of the Bonac Innovation Corp. founded in 2004. The company has launched its latest creation called Mobiado Stealth, which is a combination between Luminoso DNA and the features presented in the mi... |
3 January 2008
10:44 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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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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You know the drill: every time you get in an airplane, you must stop using your cell-phone. For a while, there have been rumors about the possibilities of allowing the passengers to use their handsets during flights. With the changes that AirFrance made, their passengers will be able to send text messages and e-mails... |
20 December 2007
09:22 GMT |
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Known once as a company making disposable cellphones, Hop-On has made available a smart phone called the HOP2001. Yes, we could think that this is not such a big deal, but the press release sure sounds a bit awkward to us. If you think twice, you'll realize that Hop-On is also specialized in mobile gambling tech... |
20 December 2007
06:04 GMT |
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If you find it difficult to play on your phone or to call somebody having your gloves on, the Japanese could have solved this problem.Cold climates won't be a problem anymore, with the new concept phone designed by Yuta Watanabe. I guess many had a phone like this in mind, but nobody has actually thought that i... |
20 December 2007
03:36 GMT |
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The name Nokia is very well known to everybody. The Cloud name might be not so familiar to the people. But, maybe the fact that Cloud remains at the forefront of the wireless broadband industry is an information that might help many of you out there.The service offers sophisticated national wireless LAN coverage acr... |
17 December 2007
10:29 GMT |
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Do you think paying $85,000 for an unlimited connection to the Internet is the craziest thing you've ever heard of? If not, you should know that a Canadian resident is now forced to pay approximately $85,000 for an Internet connection after browsing the web using his Motorola Krzr, purchased from Bell Mobility. ... |
13 December 2007
10:41 GMT |
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This is the second phone scam of the week and I've already started thinking that these people really think they are able to steal somebody's information by asking them to provide it. In fact, they can, if the victims are naive enough to disclose it. But, let's get back to today's piece of news: a ... |
13 December 2007
06:54 GMT |
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OK, I admit, this is not so related to computers, but I was shocked when I first read this piece of news. You must be sick to call somebody and tell him his sister was hurt in an accident although nothing happened. You know, some people might suffer heart attacks caused by these stupid pranks. But let's get back... |
6 December 2007
16:31 GMT |
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Samsung just made a huge unveiling, bringing out to the light several WiBro enabled devices. The powerful Samsung SPH-M8200 PDA phone was one of them and will manage to bring some pretty evolved solutions.Although PDA devices have seen a major sales drop over the past period, Samsung seems to be pretty confident in t... |
14 November 2007
04:47 GMT |
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Although it was reported that Google was in talks with Verizon Wireless to bring its technologies on their handheld devices, it seems like the Mountain View company is also negotiating with Sprint Nextel Corp. with the same goal. PC World today reports that Google and Sprint refused to comment the speculations but t... |
2 November 2007
06:37 GMT |
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God, I know Google is one of the top companies on the web, but there are way too many rumors concerning the gPhone. This piece of speculation sustains the long-discussed gPhones are already shipping by the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC. This is not the first time when HTC is brought into discussions, so there must be a ... |
17 October 2007
05:32 GMT |
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We are addicted to the bone to mobile phones, but a new research comes with a warning for our technological world: the regular use of a mobile phone over more than a decade can raise the risk of cancer. The long-term users were found to have a double chance of developing a malignant tumor on the side of the brain wh... |
8 October 2007
06:27 GMT |
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This is the second technological addiction of today's people, after the Internet. But experts warn that using a mobile phone for over an hour daily could induce hearing damage. Research reveals that persons who regularly employ their mobile for over an hour a day experience hearing impairment, and it is especial... |
22 September 2007
03:59 GMT |
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I've just heard of a new type of scam that involves spam e-mails as well as telephones. It's a bit bizarre and I have no idea how efficient it is, but it's bound to work better than PDF spam-scam. So here's how things go: the spammer sends a lot of messages including a telephone number. If the rec... |
14 September 2007
06:23 GMT |
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One of the most popular communication methods today is the World Wide Web and a number of related technologies that are using the Voice over IP (VoIP for short) protocol are becoming widely used. Among the many programs and applications that are using these technologies, Skype is probably the most popular as it allow... |
13 September 2007
04:24 GMT |
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Mobile phones are now good for anything, apart from their use as phones: to take and see pictures, videos, navigate the web and so on. Biologists have found a novel use: chats with the wild owls.You will understand perhaps only the "who?", but networks of cell phones in the wild could enable researchers to listen for... |
10 September 2007
04:15 GMT |
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The rumors concerning a potential Google Phone are continuously spreading on the Internet and today, they are somehow becoming reality. As I have said, somehow, because the Mountain View company granted a new patent that reveals a SMS technology but it's not quite clear if Google wants to implement it into a han... |
3 September 2007
06:34 GMT |
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These days are full of rumors and speculations but, what the heck, when someone talks about a potential product prepared by some, there must be a small piece of truth somewhere. Earlier this day, it was rumored that Google prepares a mobile operating system based on Linux that would bundle all the mobile software tec... |
29 August 2007
08:17 GMT |
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A while ago, the Internet world talked about a potential GooglePhone, especially created to fight with the Apple iPhone. At that time, the Mountain View company avoided commenting on the speculation; the only thing mentioned was that Google will remain a software firm and not a hardware one. So no GooglePhone; but in... |
29 August 2007
05:38 GMT |
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The Mountain View giant confirmed the acquisition of GrandCentral Communications, a company that introduced a revolutionary mobile system on the market. If you didn't know, GrandCentral allows users to track all their phone numbers and voice mailboxes from a single account without having to check them periodical... |
3 July 2007
03:20 GMT |
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The free phone service 1-800-GOOG-411 that allows users to interact with any business by voice is now compatible with Google Maps, enabling the consumers to receive a link to a map with their search query. Basically, the phone service was created to help users search for a certain business by voice and get the result... |
2 July 2007
02:41 GMT |
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Trolltech (formerly known as Quasar Technologies) is a computer software company from Oslo, Norway. They provide software development platforms and frameworks, as well as expert consulting services. Their flagship product is Qt, the easy-to-use, multi-platform, C++ Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) framework. In addit... |
28 June 2007
10:53 GMT |
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Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Maps and Google. The common feature? They are all accessible from any handheld device but the mobile family is increasing as the parent company recently released Picasa Web Albums for mobile phones. What does this mean? Using this new flavor of the service you can access it from any loc... |
28 June 2007
06:55 GMT |
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The Mountain View company is currently in talks for the acquisition of GrandCentral, a firm that introduced a revolutionary mobile system that caught everyone's attention. The deal was not confirmed, but the folks from TechCrunch sustain that the acquisition might be already closed as the two companies agreed on... |
26 June 2007
06:39 GMT |
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