Uncategorized Phone Obsession | 31 May 2008
Speed Trap Alerts via SMS - Trapster.com
Looking for a new way to dodge speed traps set by police? Look no further than Trapster.com, a website that has created new technology to allow motorists to alert other motorists using their mobile phones to offer details on speed traps they encounter on the road.
"Trapster works like this: Go to…
Uncategorized Phone Obsession | 31 May 2008
Cell Phones With 5 Touchscreens - The Packet
The Packet, designed by Emir Rifat, gives us an idea of what the future holds for cell phone technology. The Packet is a foldable mobile phone that will measure 5x5 cm when folded, and when fully opened, it will reveal its five individual touchscreens with a keypad, display, mini-keyboard x2, and a …
Uncategorized Phone Obsession | 31 May 2008
Cooking Eggs With Cell Phones - Russian Experiment Shows Its Possible
Two Russian journalists from the Pravda Newspaper in Moscow conducted an experiment in which they cooked a raw egg using their cell phones. If this experiment is real, it could finally be the visual proof people need to understand that cell phones really are dangerous.
Andrei Moiseynko and Vladimi…
Uncategorized Cell Phone Digest | 30 May 2008
TransMedia Launches the Glide OS 3.0 Universal Computing Platform
| TransMedia launched today at the D Conference hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher the all-new Glide OS 3.0 universal computing platform. Glide is the complete mobile desktop solution featuring more than 20 advanced productivity and collaboration applications with both offline and online access. Glide runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile - and supports over 75 mobile devices. Glide is available in 18 languages including English, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish. Glide OS 3.0 has many new features and an all-new design. Key Glide Applications include: |  |
Uncategorized Cell Phone Digest | 30 May 2008
TransMedia Launches the Glide OS 3.0 Universal Computing Platform
| TransMedia launched today at the D Conference hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher the all-new Glide OS 3.0 universal computing platform. Glide is the complete mobile desktop solution featuring more than 20 advanced productivity and collaboration applications with both offline and online access. Glide runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile - and supports over 75 mobile devices. Glide is available in 18 languages including English, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish. Glide OS 3.0 has many new features and an all-new design. Key Glide Applications include: | |
Uncategorized Cell Phone Digest | 30 May 2008
Kyocera & Virgin Mobile USA Announces Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card
| What do Virgin Mobile USA customers and Sir Richard Branson have in common? Branson and the lucky 15,000 customers who buy a Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card phone by Kyocera Wireless will all have special access to the Virgin Mobile Guest Lounge at the upcoming Virgin Mobile Festival on August 9-10 in Baltimore. Customers simply have to show their new handset for admittance to the special guest area at the Festival, where Kyocera Wireless continues its 3-year run as the premier handset sponsor. Available nationwide from May 25 through July 31 exclusively at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores for $99.99, the Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card also comes with 50 music downloads from eMusic and a one-year subscription to SPIN Magazine. The Limited Edition handset will be easy to spot with slick white casing, blue keypad buttons, exclusive wallpapers, and graffiti-style Festival graphics around an internal screen that imitates a concert stage. One of the Limited Edition's many wild features is the easy texting that has made the original Wild Card such a success. |  |
Uncategorized Cell Phone Digest | 29 May 2008
Skweezer Upgrades Ads for Mobile, Desktop, & Web Consoles
| Skweezer, Inc. today announced a major upgrade to its Skweezer Ads service, which allows customers to serve ads to a wide variety of mobile, desktop, and other Web-enabled consoles through a single ad feed. This latest release of Skweezer Ads includes innovations that are firsts for the online advertising community. One such innovation is a patent-pending algorithm that dynamically converts conventional text-based cost-per-click (CPC) ads into mobile-friendly ads complaint with standards set by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). Another key innovation is Skweezer Ads' cut-and-paste code that detects a visitor's device type, retrieves appropriate mobile or desktop ads accordingly, and optionally reformats and compresses the Web content for mobile viewing. Skweezer Ads is now available to publishers through ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, or JavaScript code. This latest version of Skweezer Ads uses "short URL" for easier inclusion into Web sites, RSS feeds, mobile applications, and SMS messages. |  |
Uncategorized Cell Phone Digest | 29 May 2008
Qualcomm Announces Plaza to Develop Modile Widgets
 Plaza is focused on enabling operators to bring more simplicity and personalization to their subscribers' mobile Internet experiences. When combined with subscriber intelligence and available device real estate, Plaza's end-to-end widget framework and user experience provides operators with a solution to drive use of the mobile Internet. An integrated marketing platform also plays a role in driving additional revenue to Plaza operators by allowing for targeted campaigns within the widget ecosystem. |