According to this article in The Observer, a mobile company is showing no heart to turn cancel the account of a murder victim.
The story in brief: Penny Holloway and Jim Devlin's son Thomas (15) was murdered on his way back home in Belfast. Still no...
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I came across this article in IBM written by Vishal Sinha that teaches you how you can take the Domain Name System (DNS), which is used primarily on the Internet, and implement it in mobile phones.
There he explains what DNS is all about what various...
I just came across this post in Gear Live about a PayPal like service called TextPayMe. It allows you to send and receive payments by just using SMS through your mobile device. The service is available to anyone who signs up a free 5-dollar deposit into...
With virtually every American having a cell-phone these days, the companies are now selling the idea of having two phone - one for business and one for personal use. Mind you, many are buying this theory and has effected into a jump into mobile...
This is news, really, without anything to hide literally. Amp'd Mobile is offering a offers channel with the Naked News on their phones. Err, Naked News? What's that? Well, the concept that had been taken to by various TV news channels a few years back...
When you use your built in cell phone camera to snap a shot of the barcode on any product, Toshiba's cell phone software then searches for product reviews on up to 100 web journals or blogs within 10 seconds and tells you if that product received rave...
Techcruch reports about TextPayMe which is coming out of beta. In U.S. only, Textpayme's system allows the user to sms the payment to another phone number.
At present, the service is free. Techcruch explains how it works,
... to send $15.27 to a...
I have seen people taking final pictures of the deceased even here in India. But using camera phones? I guess that's why the Japanese are leaders in mobile usage.
This certainly gives one a touch of poignancy and an indescribable sense of loss after...
The BBC reports from the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on the chances of mobile phones being the ideal tool for the job.
The reasons why mobile phones can do it:
1. Almost three-fourth of the world's population live in areas already covered by...
Wi-Fi if makes all data open to everyone, certainly will invite not one but hoards of critical problems. And if people "rummaging through the contents of each others" laptops and get away with critical data, it is surely could be a reason of concern...
According to a study report by market research firm Strategy Analytics, sales of TV phones will jump from USD 5 billion in 2005 to over USD 30 billion by 2010.
The report, - 'TV Phones: Integration and Power Improvements Needed to Reach 100 million...
3OOOH in Spain have just launched the first adult video chat service where customers can dial a premium number for a chat with 'Sexy Susie'. Well, if you thought this was going on for decades now, think twice. This time, both the participants can see...
Intel and GSM Association are partnering to enable laptops to connect seamlessly to high-speed 3G broadband data and Wi-Fi networks using the same SIM card technology currently used in cell-phones.
This was announced at the 3GSM World Congress on Feb...
According to Rajputro (meaning prince in Bangla), a blogger from Bangladesh, sales of a pair of 'ultra-low' cost mobile phones aimed at poor nations have exceeded expectations since their launch at the beginning of the year. This has apparently prompted...
Amphetameme says that going by the recent signs, it can be safely assumed that Apple has something huge in its mind now. It is cooking up something big and working hard towards keeping its mouth shut over it.
According to the post, it has recently done...
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