Harlequin Books now has a series just for busy women — Harlequin On The Go. They send their electronic books to cell phones in small, daily installments — 5-10 minutes each. Each installment takes up about 8 screens of text.
This service is currently available only to Verizon customers, but all national cellular carriers [...]
Ring tones have been around for a while. You can purchase your own, make your own, or use the ones that come with the phone. However, it hasn’t been easy, until now, to find good, classical ring tones. The couple that come with the phones are not the best quality. I currently have an aria [...]
Vollee is working to bring Second Life to your handheld. Amazing. Second Life will not work on most computers because of it higher requirements. To get it to work in a mobile environment seems questionable. However, this company has demonstrated their version and it seems to be true to the Second [...]
Autonet Mobile is currently working with Avis to start rolling out their wireless service. Basically, you plug their router into the AC power adapter and it uses existing 3-G and EVDO networks. Because it is not tied to a specific network, it can readily jump to the cell tower with the best signal. According to [...]
Google has created an open source environment for mobile phones — Android. Unlike the phone software currently in use, this software would be free for phone manufacturers and allow users more flexibility in loading the applications they want. Android includes:
Operating system based on Linux
Browser
Media support
GSM telephony
Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, WiFi
Camera, GPS, compass
Development environment
There are other features, [...]
Researchers at Duke University are trying to speed up data transmission within fiber optic cables, which can now move at about 10gb/s. In addition to the speed, when electricity is converted to light, heat is generated and that has to be dealt with by using something like a cooling fan. When they convert [...]
Want to know how many messages are waiting for you on your cell phone? How much battery life you have left? Watch for Shoogle:
Shoogle is a novel, intuitive interface for sensing data within a mobile device, such as presence and properties of text messages or remaining resources. It is based around active exploration: devices are [...]
Well, not quite, but Microsoft Research Cambridge has created a prototype clock that will tell you generally where each of your family is using cell phone signals, e.g., home, work, school, and elsewhere. Called the “Whereabouts Clock,” it requires software to be downloaded on each of the phones.
The first time a family member arrives [...]
In getting ready for the upcoming 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China Mobile has successfully tested a cell station on top of Mt. Everest — it is the highest mobile phone base station. The station has already been constructed and tested, and is now packed away until after the winter because of the cold temperatures [...]
Android — no, not like Star Trek’s Data — is an open platform for mobile devices. It’s kind of like an open operating system that developers and users can add to and manipulate:
It is supported by the Open Handset Alliance:
. . . a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have [...]
