23 month ago
jkottke : Jargon watch (and T9onyms): "book" as a synonym for "cool" - Jargon watch: "book" as a synonym for "cool". Sample usage: "That YouTube video is so book." As books are decidedly uncool, you might wonder how this usage came about. Book is a T9onym of cool...both words require pressing 2665 on the keypad of a mobile p
Rod Begbie : bethemedia: Saussure, Predictive Text, Cycling Awake and the word 'Book' - On T9 misspellings of words becoming "slang". Zonino! [via] #
deusx : bethemedia: Saussure, Predictive Text, Cycling Awake and the word 'Book' - "With T9, things are now happening that are completely new to language - we are now beginning to associate some words with other words that have no logical ideological connection between them, and, one step further, we are now substituting words with
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27 month ago
wearehugh : Joel on Software
Rod Begbie : Joel on Software: Amazing X-Ray Glasses from Sprint! - Joel rips into the craptacular experience of the new Sprint phone. I bet the PR bod who figured sending free phones to bloggers was a great idea is regretting it. #
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29 month ago
wearehugh : Welcome to BitPim
deusx : Welcome to BitPim - "BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers."
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37 month ago
kayodeok : How the MPAA killed the movie theater experience: a first-hand report [Politech] - I wonder what kind of dystopian cyberpunk future we live in when you are physically searched before entering a movie theatre
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Authentic Boredom: Mobile Web Design Part Three - Tips & Techniques - This is the third article in the four-part series, "Mobile Web Design"
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38 month ago
kayodeok : "Working Late" Won't Work Anymore - New services can track you-or your loved ones-by cell phone
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kayodeok : Phishing Without Computers: Beijingers fall victim to SMS scam - A Beijing resident surnamed Wang never thought a text message on his mobile phone would cost him more than 150,000 yuan (US$18,500)
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39 month ago
kayodeok : A New Wireless Order - One minute, the phone might be connected to a conventional cellular operator. Moments later, as you pass within range of a Wi-Fi hotspot, it could switch automatically to a faster and cheaper connection to download a batch of e-mails
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Got Browser Woes? Think Again. - As we expand our horizons from desktop to wireless, browser support isn’t going to get easier
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Remote controls for your life - Wireless World - "The phone is rapidly becoming a window to the world," said Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group research firm. "In many ways it's becoming a replacement for the PC."
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras - Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with an inexpensive way to prevent digital cameras and digital video cameras from capturing that secret shot
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39 month ago
kayodeok : It's Bluetooth for the Ears: A Hearing Aid Takes Calls - New York Times - The ELI hearing aid from Starkey Laboratories uses the Bluetooth wireless technology now included with many cellphones to avoid interference by, in effect, moving the telephone into the hearing aid
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Camera phones will be high-precision scanners - The software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Imperial College London - New microchip design could be the key to expanding mobile phone memory - Mobile phones could one day have the memory capacity of a desktop computer thanks to a microchip that mimics the functioning of the brain, scientists report today (9 September) in the journal Science
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Google Sitemaps (BETA) Help - Google Mobile Sitemaps is an extension of Google Sitemaps that enables you to submit URLs that serve mobile content into our mobile index
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Google Mobile - Want to get Google Web Search and Image Search results on your phone or mobile device? Here's how
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40 month ago
kayodeok : An IPod Cellphone Said to Be Imminent - Apple Computer and Motorola plan to unveil a long-awaited mobile phone and music player next week that will incorporate Apple's iTunes software, a telecommunications industry analyst who has been briefed on the announcement said on Monday
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Bluetooth Spam - Advertisers are beaming unwanted content to Bluetooth phones at a distance of 100 meters
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Wired News: Star Trek Phone Set to Thrill - Sona Mobile and Viacom Consumer Products are set to offer a Star Trek communicator-themed mobile device that will let users make calls, play video clips, play online Star Trek games and surf the internet
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40 month ago
kayodeok : The mobile that slows down children’s chatter - By toggling a switch on the side of the phone, the mobile phone instantly converts all incoming voices to 70 per cent of their usual speed, making the words much easier for the listener to make out.
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kayodeok : Visionary Jeff Hawkins blends PDAs, cellular phones - PalmPilot creator imagines bringing brain capabilities to technological products
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Sona Mobile and Viacom Consumer Products to create Star Trek(R) themed mobile communicator device - Global Partnership lets Star Trek Communicator users interact with Star Trek content and each other
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Authentic Boredom: Mobile Web Design Part Two - Methods to the Madness - This is the second article in the four-part series,
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Opera Mini for Mobile - Opera Mini is a new kind of web browser for virtually all mobile phones. Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone
Cameron Moll : Opera Mini 2.0 - Opera Mini 2.0 released. New features include image/mp3 downloads, skins, multi-engine searching, and more.
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Invention: Phone-bomb hijacking - Cellphones provide a simple yet effective way for terrorists to remotely trigger a bomb. But now a portable device devised by US defence contractor Raytheon could quickly identify and disable such weapons
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