Nokia Lightens Your Load October 31, 2008
In an effort to help travellers everywhere, Nokia and Lonely Planet have teamed up to distribute Lonely Planet content via Nokia Maps. Travellers can purchase and download the city guides so that they have information at their fingertips whilst they are on the road.
With over 100 destinations available now, and more to come, Nokia Maps and Lonely Planet have many of the most world’s most popular tourist locations covered. The Lonely Planet guides will help travellers to find great places to eat, shop and sleep, as well as describing the popular sights and nightlife for each destination.
“Lonely Planet is a …
Email This PostTexts tackle HIV in South Africa October 29, 2008
The popularity of mobile phones in South Africa is helping to tackle HIV and Aids in the nation.Project Masiluleke will send one million free text messages a day to push people to be tested and treated.Approximately 350,000 people die of Aids-related diseases in the country every year.Trials of the system showed that calls to counsellors at the National Aids helpline in Johannesburg increased by 200% when messages were broadcast. “I think this is the largest ever use of mobile phones for health information,” said Gustav Praekelt, one of the project’s originators.Test caseThe United Nations estimates that there are currently six …
Email This PostWells Fargo CEO MobileSM Service Adds New Features for Corporate Customers October 27, 2008
Wells Fargo & Company - the only major U.S. financial services company offering browser-based mobile banking for corporate banking customers — has again expanded wires and self administration features of its CEO MobileSM service. Authorized CEO Mobile users can now initiate and approve federal tax wires and see which self administration dual control items they can act on …
Email This PostAT&T goes wild with texting, announces four QWERTY phones October 24, 2008
If you’re into that whole SMS craze and you’re on AT&T, you’re in luck — four times over. The carrier’s gone ahead and announced not one, not two, but four QWERTY-equipped dumphones today, including a dual slider and a Pantech being billed as “the world’s thinnest device with a full QWERTY keypad.”First up, the Pantech Matrix is available now in your choice of blue or green, with red being added on Thursday, October 16. It slides two ways — a conventional vertical slide to reveal a numeric keypad, and a second side slider for the full QWERTY action. …
Email This PostNew Technology Allows Employees To Clock In Via Text Message. October 22, 2008
Revolutionary time and labor tracking company HourDoc.com announced today that it now offers clients the advanced technology of allowing employees to clock in and out using their cell phones. There will be no extra charge for this new time-saving feature, which will assist companies in tracking their mobile employees and those who work numerous locations.Using SMS technology, otherwise known as “short messaging system”, employees using HourDoc.com’
s powerful and easy to understand, on-demand system can now confidently clock in and out—for the day or for breaks—using simple text messaging.Here is how it works. Each cell phone has a unique 10-digit number: …
Major wireless carriers named in class action over text messaging fees October 20, 2008
The Madison Record reports that a class action suit filed against every major wireless telephone provider alleges conspiracy to fix, raise, maintain, or stabilize prices of text messaging services sold in the United States.Matthew R. Bakay filed suit in the Southern District of Illinois on Oct. 6 against AT&T Inc., AT&T Mobility L.L.C., Sprint Nextel Corporation, Verizon Wireless, Verizon Communications, Inc., Vodafone Group PLC, T-Mobile International AG, and T-Mobile USA, Inc., on behalf of all individuals and entities that purchased text messaging services directly from the defendants. Bakay claims he and class members paid artificially inflated prices for text …
Email This PostA Phone That’s Not Afraid to Mess with Water October 14, 2008
Among the grievous wrongs done by touchscreen technology, the worst is its disregard for tactile feedback. Without the pleasant sensation of a button being pressed, we are woefully incapable of using any gadget without complete visual attention. This Nokia concept tries to right this wrong by using a small pump to fill a substrate beneath the screen that gives our fingers something to feel and press.Read more and see pictures at Yanko Design
Email This PostHigh-tech bank robbers phone it in October 12, 2008
Your ordinary bank robber can now steal hundreds of account numbers from ATMs without so much as lifting a finger. Instead, he skims.Skimming is the physical use of secondary readers to capture the magnetic tracks on the backs of credit and debit cards. On ATMs, skimmers and secondary keypads are used to capture account numbers and PINs. Often, the ATM transaction goes through, and the customer doesn’t realize that the account has been compromised until later.Two risks these high-tech criminals face are being caught fitting a faux cover over an ordinary ATM card slot and keypad, then later retrieving …
Email This PostIs Text Messaging Making Subtitles Popular? October 6, 2008
According to Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, the ubiquity of text messaging means that subtitled movies could gain acceptance. Granted, this is an extrapolation of one throwaway comment in a New York Times interview, but it does make an interesting point.
People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They’re not afraid of them. It’s one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
People read a lot of on-screen text. You’re doing it now. I read thousands of words a day to bring these posts to you. We all read messages on …
