Luxury mobile phone maker Vertu, owned by Finnish cell phone giant Nokia, will begin this year offering mobile services in Japan. Vertu, which makes expensive, handcrafted handhelds that are often crafted with precious metals and gems, said it would offer its customers high-end amenities including a personal concierge service. The company will become a “mobile [...]
PC World – No, we’re not joking. The Camera Phone Predator Alert Act (H.R. 414) is the real deal.
AFP – Luxury mobile phone brand Vertu, owned by Finnish cellphone giant Nokia, will this year begin offering mobile services in Japan, it said in a joint statement with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).
Photo: Verizon Network Extender Boosts Cell Phone Signals at Home Photo 1 Verizon Wireless today began selling a device that boosts cell phone signals within a home, making it easier for people to drop a home phone line and rely solely on wireless. These devices are known as “femtocells.” Once Verizon‘s Network Extender is connected [...]
PC World – A little over a year ago I found myself sitting in the San Francisco offices of an international humanitarian NGO (nongovernmental organization). Their main focus at the time was a major human-rights treaty, and they wanted advice about mobilizing rural communities to lobby their governments to ratify it.
Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider, said it is eliminating up to 8,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, under a plan to cut annual costs by $1.2 billion. The Overland Park, Kan.-based company said it will complete the layoffs by March 31. About 850 of the reductions are voluntary. Sprint [...]
It is a good idea to back up information stored on a mobile phone. Backing up to a PC, however, tends to be a hassle because the PC has to be switched on, a data cable must be found, and the PC application must be started. We regularly backup phone data, and our experience strongly [...]
Archos is one of the pioneers in the business of pocket-size portable MP3 and multimedia players. In fact, the company is one of the few manufacturers that has also created handheld recorder/players that can record TV shows and videos onto the device‘s own hard drive. For instance, we are still using a relatively old but [...]
Increasingly, high-end smartphones come with built-in GPS receivers for navigation and for saving locations for photos taken with the phone‘s own camera. Typically, photos are then uploaded to Google Earth or Flickr for viewing them on a shared map. Smartphone manufacturer HTC has enhanced the so called geotagging concept to cover audio and written notes [...]
Verizon Wireless has introduced an Internet home phone that doubles as a family calendar, limited web browser, messaging center and digital picture frame. The company said the Linux-based Verizon Hub connects to any broadband connection for voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, calls. It lets users browse with visual voicemail and contact list management, set [...]
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