The First Fully Functional Phone Car
	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 man ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2008, 06:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Messenger to Be Revamped with JAJAH VoIP
	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" features. Through these two functions, Yahoo Messenger users will be able to start phone calls s ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 09:59GMT | (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

LG Ice Cream Phone Released
	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 upgr ... [read more >>]
	31 March 2008, 07:11GMT | (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

Phone Call Without Speaking
	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 emitting a sound. But the nerve signals can be detected by the neckband which sends them via radio waves to a computer th ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paris Hilton’s Friendly Hacker Called…
	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 bunch of money inherited helped out with that as well, but she keeps drawing attention like something stinky draws flies, if y ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 15:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Offers Free Phone Services to the Homeless
	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, 4,000 such numbers and accounts have already been distributed in San Francisco, as a part of the Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Project Homeless Connect. ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Phone Service Tells You Whether He/She Loves You or It's Just a Lie
	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 the interlocutor's speech, how much passion is in the voice of a lover. The "Love Detector" ser ... [read more >>]
	23 February 2008, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

100 Billion Minutes for Skype
	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 bought it at the reduced price of $3.1 billion. Now do the math: 100 billion divided by 3.1 billion and you get some 3 cents ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cell Phones Can Cause Mouth Cancer!
	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 Institute and Wayne State University, in Michigan, found that mobile phone radiation of 884 MHz provokes insomn ... [read more >>]
	20 February 2008, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Giving People Rating Stars in Real Life?
	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’t know for granted. At least that’s how I see it. Philipp Lenssen of Blogoscoped quoted Reza Behforooz, working at Goo ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 13:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Teleport 2.0, the Nifty Telephone Snitch from Optimus Maximus' Father
	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 excited and forget the hour? Well, fear not, as this little snitch will always keep track of your calls. Art Lebedev ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Charging Your Mobile Phone Just by Walking!
	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 for charging 10 cell phones at the same time. "Since muscles are the powerhouses of the body, my c ... [read more >>]
	08 February 2008, 04:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cell Phones Cause Insomnia!
	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 engineering department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Studies (should) pay special attenti ... [read more >>]
	22 January 2008, 04:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Download Terrorist Videos to Your Phone
	"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 a recent video tribute to Abu Musad al-Zarqawi, a former al-Qaeda leader from Iraq, who was killed by the U.S. ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 08:28GMT | (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

Windows XP Trojan Locks Your Vulnerable Computer
	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 affects all Windows versions, starting with '98 and ending with Server 2003. The high damage potential can only ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 02:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Porn Not Safe, Hackers Believe
	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 antispyware infections informed the users that their computers got infected with some sort of virus and a certain applicati ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Stealth Luxury Phone from Mobiado
	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 DN ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 10:44GMT | (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

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

Air France Will Allow Mobile Phone Use During Flights
	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 passenge ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 09:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hop-On Smartphone for Gamblers
	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 ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Winter Phone for Cold Days
	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 ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia + The Cloud = Music
	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 sophist ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola Krzr Brings $85,000 Internet Bill
	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. Obviously, Piotr Staniaszek didn't actually know that he's going to pay that much for browsing the web, ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Warning: Phone Scam in Progress!
	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 scammer who claimed to be a Medicare agent called several residents of Laguna Woods Village, asking for their Medic ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oh, God, Phone Scam Threatening Your Family...
	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 to the subject. Keloland.com informs that a phone scam has been discovered in Rapid City and the local police has ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Beauty and Brains, with Samsung SPH-M8200 PDA Phone
	Samsung just made a huge unveiling, bringing out to the light several WiMAX 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, ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google OS to Be Implemented in Sprint Devices?
	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 the super search giant might cook some new mobile technologies very soon. Actually, Google released the mobile Picas ... [read more >>]
	02 November 2007, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

gPhones to Be Shipped Soon!
	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 grain of truth somewhere. According to CNN Money, a UBS analyst confirmed the fact that HTC is currently working on ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 05:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mobile Phones Cause Brain Cancer
	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 where they held the mobile, and an hour per day on a mobile phone increased the risk as well. The Swedish res ... [read more >>]
	08 October 2007, 06:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mobile Phones Harm Hearing
	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 especially difficult to distinguish words starting with the letters s, f, h, t and z. The result of this study is extre ... [read more >>]
	22 September 2007, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

E-mail-borne-phone-based-scam… What The … ?
	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 receiver should call that number, surprise, surprise, it’s a premium call, so instead of paying standard per minute, he is charged with lo ... [read more >>]
	14 September 2007, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yet Another Mouse and Phone Combo
	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 allows a high-quality sound. In order to make it easy for computer and Skype users to call their friends over the Internet, a numb ... [read more >>]
	13 September 2007, 04:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Owl Talks Through Cell Phones
	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 birds and beasts, assessing diversity and if there is wildlife in a certain area. "We' ... [read more >>]
	10 September 2007, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GPay – The SMS Technology for the Upcoming Google Phone
	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 handheld device. The folks from Pocket-Lint said the new patent can be used for both Google Phone and Google Checkout ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 06:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Working With HTC For A Potential GooglePhone
	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 technologies designed by the Mountain View giant. Here's an update on that: the folks from CrunchGear report that ... [read more >>]
	29 August 2007, 08:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google to Launch Its Operating System Next Week
	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 the meantime, the search giant released several new mobile flavors of its products. Take the example of Gmail, Goo ... [read more >>]
	29 August 2007, 05:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One More Google Step into the Phone Market
	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 periodically. Moreover, the account is accessible from a web-based interface that makes it extremely easy to use. It' ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2007, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Free Phone Service for Google Maps
	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 results on a handheld device. Using the newly introduced feature, the product is enhanced with Map details, allowing you ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2007, 02:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Trolltech Is Looking for Developers
	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 addition to the GUI toolkit, Qt also comes equipped with a variety of packages such as data structures and a network ... [read more >>]
	28 June 2007, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What About Google Earth for Mobile Phones?
	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 location with a simple mobile phone connected to the Internet. In fact, you are able to do even more with your handhel ... [read more >>]
	28 June 2007, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Wants More Phone-Related Projects
	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 the price. GrandCentral launched the first beta of its services in September, becoming an important firm among the mobile[AD ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mobile Phone Technology for Airplanes, Introduced Till September 2007
	If you believe airplanes are the place where you escape the buzz of the phone cells, you're wrong. Aircrafts will be connected through a new system permitting travelers to make mobile phone calls from the height of the skies. Currently, you are requested to switch off cell phones as a part of the takeoff routine, but a European company has encountered a method of turning dialing safe and connect with people even when they're abov ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2007, 07:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google to Discuss a Mobile Phone for Korean Users
	Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, will have several meetings with the Korean authorities including Seok Jong-Hun, president of Daum Communications, and Kim Shin-Bae, president of mobile carrier SK Telecom. Although it is not quite clear if the search giant's representatives are going to talk about an upcoming Googlephone for the Korean users, it's obvious that Google has some important plans since it intends to talk with ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2007, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Would Annihilate The Rivals With Its Googlephone!
	Some time ago, it was rumored that Google was preparing the Googlephone, an exciting handheld device able to conquer the mobile market. The Mountain View company denied the rumors, adding that Google will remain a software firm without any hardware trends. However, these statements didn't stop the market research firm, The EQUS Group, to conduct a study concerning a potential Google or Yahoo phone. The main goal of the resea ... [read more >>]
	24 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Hotline: 1-800-GOOG-411
	Google Voice Local Search is a new service introduced by the Mountain View company that allows users to get their results straight by phone. Basically, the product is able to work with any Google product but at this time, you can use it only for Google Maps. Let me explain you the procedure: let's suppose you want to find information concerning a certain business included in the map service. All you need to do is call Google at 1-800- ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2007, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia