Rape charges dropped after deleted messages recovered from iPhone July 29, 2010
A MAN’S business and reputation are tainted, a young woman’s HSC and mental health are in tatters and prosecutors have been ordered to pay more than $30,000 in legal costs for a bungled rape investigation on Sydney’s northern beaches.
But it could have been worse still, if not for the trove of secrets stored in one of the world’s most popular mobile phones.
In what may be the first time an iPhone’s elephantine memory has saved someone accused of a serious crime, deleted data retrieved by a leading surveillance expert appears to have led to the dropping of five rape charges against …
Email This PostNow You Can Bump iPhones to Connect on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn July 27, 2010
Bump, the app that makes it super simple to exchange information with other users by bumping phones, has just released Bump 2.0 [iTunes link] for the iPhone.
The app features an updated and refined interface plus the ability to compare calendars, instantly connect on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, and the ability to send messages back and forth without another Bump. Like its predecessor, Bump 2.0 is free.
Bump is a great app for people that travel in groups with lots of smartphone users because it makes it simple to transfer information without the need to pass out business cards. It’s easy to …
Email This PostOrchestras Seek BFF by Cellphone Texts July 23, 2010
Before the New York Philharmonic presented a concert in Central Park last week, the executive director of the orchestra had an announcement: Audience members could vote for an encore from the evening’s soloist by text message. The choices were a Chopin étude or, in honor of the guest musicians from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, a traditional Chinese melody.
The Chinese melody won, and so did marketers for the soloist, the piano virtuoso Lang Lang. Voters swiftly received a reply offering a discount to “pre-order” his new CD set, “Live in Vienna,” and …
Email This Post$1m Giveway - Reply TXT ‘YES’ to Work July 20, 2010
Lingo Systems has today announced it is giving away $1 million of software licenses hospitals, clinics and nursing homes.
The giveaway is to celebrate the launch of its new product, Automated Casual Rostering System, which uses two-way SMS/TXT technology to roster or schedule staff to fill shift vacancies.
“Labour costs are typically the single largest category of costs to a hospital or nursing home,” says Kurt Lingohr, Managing Director of Lingo Systems, a boutique IT healthcare company based on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
Lingohr says, “The objective of this system is to roster staff more effectively and reduce agency usage.” “When a …
Email This PostGulf oil spill clean up relying on cell phones July 15, 2010
Cell phones, of all things, are playing a critical role in the clean up of the oil in the Gulf thanks to a St. Louis software company.Agilis Systems usually works with companies like Schnucks, to help track deliveries with GPS software.
In the gulf clean up, the company has installed special software on regular cell phones. The phones are assigned …
Email This PostAustralian mobile invention could be desert lifeline July 12, 2010
t is a new mobile phone system that promises to work anywhere and potentially help save lives in a disaster.Researchers have gone to extraordinary lengths to test it out in a remote desert wilderness in South Australia.In a landscape of deep valleys and rugged red ochre mountains, the tests have been a success.
They were carried out at Sillers Lookout, a lonely cliff that juts out like a long finger at Arkaroola in the Flinders Ranges.
Read more: abc.net
Email This PostInventor of cell phone: We knew someday everybody would have one July 9, 2010
In 1973, Martin Cooper changed the world, although he didn’t know it yet.Cooper and his team at Motorola, the communications company, created maybe the only thing that runs the lives of business professionals and teenagers alike — the cell phone.
It was the size of a brick and wasn’t commercially sold for another decade. But as Cooper demonstrated on a New York sidewalk, it worked.
The concept of cellular technology had already been created by Motorola’s rival, AT&T, whose Bell Labs introduced a system allowing calls to be moved from one cell to another while remaining on the same channel. But AT&T …
Email This PostU.S. government launches 17 mobile apps July 6, 2010
USA.gov has unveiled a slew of free mobile apps that provide information about product recalls, most-wanted criminals and other federal government information and services.Most of these tools aren’t standalone software; instead, they use information from interactive websites optimized to work well in “microbrowsers,” the small-size, limited-functionality web browsers that come with many mobile phones.
As far as access to government is concerned, mobile-friendly websites are a very good thing. That’s because, as I wrote earlier, the vast majority of U.S. mobile phones in use are not smartphones with full-featured browsers. Also, mounting wireless network congestion can make standard websites frustrating …
Email This PostPlanning ahead to avoid mobile traffic jams July 2, 2010
More Americans are using more and smarter mobile phones, and consuming more data via those devices. But can wireless broadband service keep pace with this growing need?
The Obama Administration would like to make sure it does.
Wireless network congestion threatens to bog down the much-hyped mobile broadband revolution, leaving smartphone and tethered laptop users waiting and waiting for web pages to load, videos to stream, and apps to update.
Read more: www.cnn.com
