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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Hey, Silicon Valley people! Blue Lava Wireless, which makes Tetris for cell
phone
s, was acquired for $137 million...
I just want to make a
phone
call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, head
phone
jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and records video...
April 18 to 24, 2005
If you have a used mobile
phone
, you could try shipping it to this non-profit...
Use two micro
phone
s with your Mac with this cheap $16 gadget...
The scratcho
phone
, the portable scratching bongo drum...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The "stratellite" can replace satellites at 1/10 the cost. Hopefully, it will make cell
phone
towers obsolete...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Use your cell
phone
to pay for parking. These systems greatly reduce cost, maintenance, and long lines...
March 21 to 27, 2005
A blogged picture of a procession in Spain demonstrates the rising use of cell
phone
cameras to capture major events...
March 14 to 20, 2005
More and more young kids want cell
phone
s these days...
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract information from PDAs and cell
phone
s from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
March 7 to 13, 2005
New Order's new music posters beam music, art, and ringtones to nearby cell
phone
s...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
What a cell
phone
bomb trigger looks like...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Samsung introduces cell
phone
videoconferencing...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
Here's where your cell
phone
s go...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
The U.S. now has over 830,000 net
phone
subscribers...
Cell
phone
s are making area codes obsolete...
January 24 to 30, 2005
The wind-up cell
phone
charger...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Interactive charts of the International
phone
tic Alphabet. You can listen to every sound that humans use to communicate...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Restaurants are installing fake
phone
booths for use by cell
phone
users to minimize noise pollution...
A slew of cell
phone
tour guide companies are taking off...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
"Researchers compost old mobile
phone
s & transform them into flowers"...
Scientists figure out how to make hydrogen from sunflower oil. Does this mean that one day I'll be able to power my car from my cell
phone
compost pile...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Build your own gramo
phone
with these Japanese kits - etch grooves on CDs and plastic cups and play them back...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile
phone
generation". They're worried that cell
phone
s are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
The FCC further deregulates Internet
phone
services...
November 1 to 7, 2004
"Cell
phone
s Increasingly Used to Snap the News...
October 25 to 31, 2004
An article on cell-
phone
video dating...
A new singing contest in Korea has entrants auditioning using their cell
phone
s. I hope entries are well-received...
October 4 to 10, 2004
With this application and a GPS-enabled
phone
, you can walk around town and see which places are contributing money to which political parties. Get a rough idea of the political leanings and wealth o...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Telcos' latest shot in the broadband war - TV over
phone
lines...
Cancel your
phone
and cable TV - start a wireless neighborhood network...
California mandates free cell
phone
recycling. Every state should pass such a bill...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Why are political polls "a sham"? First, they don't call people with cell
phone
s...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Regarding last week's item about fake tree-like cell
phone
masts...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time everywhere (1 second is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
32,000 cell
phone
towers in the U.S. are disguised as fake trees. Here's an amazing gallery of them...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Finally, Coke vending machine offers cashless purchases via cell
phone
s...
A new Windows worm has the ability to spy on users with webcams and micro
phone
s...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Me and my friends recently switched from T-Mobile due to lousy service. Here's another sad customer: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/tmobile-sidekick-ii-review-best-
phone
-ill-never-buy-019948.ph...
Cell
phone
users are using their cameras in store to copy textbooks...
Got a Mac, guitar, and a micro
phone
? Here's the cables...
August 8 to 14, 2004
The first mobile
phone
virus...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Tired of Hotmail and other free mail services that bombard you with junk mail and don't let you send large attachments? Try Spymac's new "Spymac mail", with a 3GB inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
Samsung's new 3 million pixel camera
phone
...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
The first(?) application for turning your cell
phone
into a universal remote control...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
More about Bob Vincent, the guy who recently designed a revolutionary new type of antenna. Implications for networks, cell
phone
s, radios, more...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Following in the footsteps of AT&T, tele
phone
giant BT is transforming its entire
phone
network to using IP (Internet) protocol...
May 24 to 30, 2004
"How to make friends by Tele
phone
...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Will the RIAA create artificial scarcity in the $3 billion cell
phone
ringtone market...
May 10 to 16, 2004
More on acoustic cryptanalysis - studying keystroke sounds. From a cellular
phone
, it's possible to tell what you're typing...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Noisy cell
phone
s are becoming a problem in national parks...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Office workers are exposed to more germs from
phone
s and keyboards than toilet seats...
One quarter of cell
phone
s in 2004 will include a camera...
Samsung introduces the first 2-megapixel camera
phone
...
Somebody market this, quick! A professor creates a small cheap noise cancellation unit that decreases computer fan noise. Although this technology is available in many head
phone
s, nobody to date ha...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first music video ever to be entirely shot using a cell
phone
. Reminds me of the first movies made for the Web ten years ago - in another ten directors may be viewing dailies on their
phone
s...
February 23 to 29, 2004
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the computer's hard drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
January 12 to 18, 2004
An uplifting story of how a frantic woman at an airport is saved minutes before takeoff by a laptop connected with Bluetooth to a cell
phone
connected to the Internet connected to her email...
January 5 to 11, 2004
A great two-piece story on a man trapped in a dead-end job at a customer service call center. "The
phone
s Don't Stop...
December 8 to 14, 2003
It's legal (and has been for years) in over half the states to sell your voter registration information - including name, race, email, street address,
phone
number, birth date, political affiliation...
This enables desktop-sized supercomputers and cell
phone
s lasting 60 hours...
A man gets out of a ticket using a cell
phone
and a friend with a computer...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The world's first disposable cellular
phone
just hit the market. It comes with 60 minutes of prepaid time, its own
phone
number, and you can add more minutes as needed...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"New switching rules may trash millions of cell
phone
s...
September 30, 2003
Sales of
phone
cams have surpassed that of digital cameras...
August 12, 2003
If you combine the ability to track others with their cell
phone
.....
August 4, 2003
We'll be seeing more good and bad uses of cell
phone
cams in the future...
July 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a
phone
? Apple's latest tech wizardry makes voice calling over the Net a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and
phone
networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...
Consumer citizens who are not feeling apathetic will be pleased to learn that the site provides names and contact information for the corporate executives who oversee the Center's efforts. Since th...