Mobile

Skype, the global Internet communications company, today announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for Skype. The agreements are with three major music publishing companies - EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and Warner/Chappell Music - and the UK’s collecting society for author/publisher rights, the [...]

I haven’t had a landline in years (and haven’t missed it, except for the time I needed to set up our TiVo - which isn’t even an issue any longer since TiVos can be set up on a network now as I’ve discovered thanks to a good number of you fine Gnomies out there), so [...]

An amusing article in the Chicago Sun Times Online Edition tells you how to become completely inseparable from your phone.
After a short boast about his cell phone’s prowess, which I found hilarious, Andy Ihnatko clues us in to which mobile sites are the most essential and how to access them.
Google is supposed to sense [...]

I have been calling Samsung the new Sony and here’s a good reason why. Innovation. Today, the company previewed a new clamshell-style BlackBerry for those who want more phone than PDA but didn’t care for the existing “candy bar” 7100 series.
Samsung announced a very phone-like BlackBerry (or maybe a BlackBerry-like phone) at the CTIA cell-phone [...]

There’s no argument from here that this world can be a dangerous place. When you’re a parent, you want to know where your children are at all times; sometimes technology can help fulfill that goal. Kelli Kennedy of the Associated Press (via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer) writes:
When 11-year-old Jessica Lunsford was kidnapped and murdered last year, [...]

The Samsung Z500 has had a coat of pink and silver paint. The result is a chic clamshell that you won’t want to let out of your sight. And thank goodness for that because its many features don’t allow for much down-time. You see, the pink Z500 features an MP3 player, 50MB internal memory, video [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Naturally, battery life is a big issue when looking at an MP3 player, whether it be the ubiquitous iPod or something else. Another big issue of late has been DRM, as noted during the Sony debacle. An article by MP3 Insider digs deep into battery life, and comes up [...]

Raphael Salgado of Pocket PC Thoughts writes:
Gigabyte, the Taiwanese maker of motherboards and PCMCIA cards, was gracious enough to send us a late pre-production sample of its first entry into the mobile device world: the hotly anticipated gSmart Pocket PC Phone. Since this device is not yet released, nor have the firmware and applications been [...]

Raphael Salgado of Pocket PC Thoughts has something to say to those among us who, like he, lamented the lack of an upgrade to Windows Mobile 5.0 for HTC Magician. Where to go next? An option might be the 02 XDA Atom. How did this little gadget hold up to an honest review? He writes:
Ever [...]

Martin Regtien of RealTechNews writes:
How many times have you made a trip in vain to your P.O. Box in town?
How would you like to be notified only when there actually is mail to pick up?
Well, Australian Post apparently is the first postal agency in the world to SMS or email you within 30 [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Actually, it’s not a cell tower but an amplifying antenna. In fact, it reminds me a lot of an antenna I have hooked to my wireless router to increase signal strength in my house. Developed by SignalWide, there will soon be a range of solutions to increase your cellular [...]

Early adopters are reporting that the MacBook Pro units that they ordered right after Steve Jobs announced their availability in his latest keynote are finally shipping. A few lucky buyers put up screenshots of their shipping confirmation for all to see, showing the ship date, along with the change in processor speed (Apple recently bumped [...]

Chief Gadgeteer of RealTechNews writes:
Not being on a GSM-type network, I’ve always been jealous of folks with SIM cards. It’s so easy for them to get a new phone and just plug their SIM card into the new one and off they go. Not me. I’ve got to make a trip over to the Sprint [...]

Jimmy Daniels of RealTechNews writes
It’s certainly not something I’m searching for in a phone, but the graphics chip should sure help out the displays.
Nvidia’s latest graphics processor for high-end mobile phones, unveiled on Monday, can take 10-megapixel pictures and decode high-resolution video, thus marking another step toward turning mobile phones into powerful handheld entertainment devices.
Read [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Who hasn/t had this happen: watching a movie in a theatre, and someone’s cellphone starts ringing? And then they don’t shut it off, they actually answer it! Or, same situation in a church, at a funeral, a play, you name it. It makes me wish they would [...]

Nicolas Fogelholm of RealTechNews writes:
There is probably other more interesting news from the World 3GSM congress, but I haven’t had time to check all announcements.

We’ve all had it happen at least once - that moment when your cell phone slips from a pocket or your hands and crashes to the ground. Most phones survive, but apparently many more make the fall into a liquid surface - like into the water of a toilet bowl.
Gross!

I try to keep my conspiracy side of clamped down (tin foil hats aside), but I found it interesting that just when they said it was safe to use a cell phone in a hospital, a new study has come out to let us know that the average cell phone carrried by a doctor is [...]

Jimmy Daniels at RealTechNews writes:
Early this morning RIM released details of a software work around if the US courts rule against them in the February 24 hearing. Some software updates would be required, if they had to use this “backup” plan.
Read about RIM’s Backup Plan Here

Kyle Reasons of RealTechNews writes
Today Apple released a new iPod nano which offers 1 GB of storage. The new nano holds up to 240 songs or 150,000 photos and has all of the same features as the other nanos. The new nano will sell for $149.
Read More about the nano here
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