Tag: CELL PHONES

As part of a cracked-out crackdown on mobile privacy, China now requires all of its citizens to register their personal information before buying cell phones. As Reuters reports, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will now require anyone buying a cell phone to show ID cards, with foreign purchasers having to show their passports. According to the China Daily newspaper, ...

Lookout, a mobile security company, embarked on an absolutely massive study that examined the code of some 300,000 Android and iPhone apps. Dubbed the App Genome Project, it looked at a large cross-section of mobile apps and found that an unsettling number of them were accessing your personal information, and sometimes without alerting you. According to Lookout, 33-percent of iPhone and ...

Share A good workman never blames his tools. And a good adulteress should never blame hers, either. Just don't tell that to Gabriella Nagy, who, after having her extramarital affair unearthed by her husband, has decided to sue her cell phone company for allowing it to happen. It began in 2007, when Nagy opened an account with the Canadian service provider Rogers. According to the contract, ...

Share Microsoft has been forced by the moral authority of Consumer Reports to censor an ad for its new line of Kin social-networking phones. The ad for Microsoft's Kin features a house party concert invaded by attractive hipsters who play with bubble bath foam, wear animal masks and spend more time photographing and talking about their experiences than actually experiencing anything. The ad ...

No surprises here, but according to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is hard at work on the fourth generation iPhone. The paper also claimed that Cupertino was prepping a CDMA-based iPhone that could be used on either Verizon or Sprint, another oft-rumored move that would compensate for issues with the AT&T network. Inside sources told our friends at Engadget that the fourth-gen iPhone, ...

Allergy sufferers in Japan are turning to a rather unique cure: ringtones. The Japan Ringing Tone Laboratory is currently selling ringtones it bills as therapeutic, claiming that they can sooth a diverse set of maladies or provide a general boost, depending on a person's star sign. Matsumi Suzuki, a voice-print identification expert and creator of BowLingual (a dog bark translator), is the man ...

Those of us in the U.S. have been waiting rather impatiently for the arrival of music streaming service Spotify. We were originally told that the top notch music service, which allows you to select what you stream, would hit the states in late 2009. Of course, 2009 has come and gone, and we're already entering spring of 2010 with very little word from the folks at Spotify. Bloomberg News reports ...

Almost a year ago to the day, CBS introduced its Sulu app for the iPhone, and one major competitor is finally following that pioneering move toward mobile programming. Fox Mobile Group, which is a division of Fox Entertainment (itself a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.), has created Bitbop, a smartphone subscription service. The Bitbop app, which will officially launch within the next few ...

It looks like the race is on to see who can offer the fastest text-entry for touchscreen phones. By now, everybody knows about Swype, which recently helped a man set a Guinness World Record for texting. But a new player is about to join this race. According to Engadget, Nuance, the company behind the hugely popular T9 predictive text functions in most phones, recently announced its T9 Trace ...

Share While AT&T and Verizon have been duking it out over who has the most 3G coverage and firing iPhone, Droid, and Nexus One salvos at each other, Sprint has been quietly sitting back waiting to deliver its unexpected coup de grâce. Yesterday, at the CTIA mobile event in Vegas, the second tier provider announced the first 4G phone available in the U.S. -- and it's a monster. The ...

In February, PopCap Games introduced a version of its popular castle defense game, 'Plants vs. Zombies,' to the iPhone. The lure of pea pods battling the undead proved impossible for people to resist, and, within nine days, the game had set a sales record on the device -- selling over 300,000 copies and pulling in over $1 million. PopCap is a game maker with its fingers in several pies -- ...

We can't ask George Washington Carver if he prefers crunchy or smooth peanut butter. We can't seek the consultation of the Wright Brothers on how to go about saving the airline industry. We can, though, pick the brain of the very much alive Marty Cooper, the man who invented the cell phone -- which is exactly what C-Span recently did. Over the course of a half hour interview, Cooper revealed that ...

There are several ways to make a phone call using a BlackBerry. 1. Traditional Dialing From the main screen enter numbers as you would a traditional phone and then hit the green 'Call' button. To end a call hit the red button. And if you hadn't noticed them, the numbers are grouped like a traditional keypad above the letter keys. 2. Dial by Name If a phone number is already programmed ...

It looks like Oprah isn't the only one loving on Skype. The service, which allows users to make free calls to other users over the Internet, and to make ridiculously cheap calls to actual phones, just received a major boost thanks to Verizon. The carrier, which you would think might see Skype as something of a competitor, will now be allowing its subscribers to make Skype calls from their ...

Cell phones cause cancer, don't cause cancer, might cause cancer, who knows? Well, Maine State Legislator Andrea Boland at least claims to know. She plans to introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session that would require phones to carry warnings saying that they can cause brain cancer. Apparently unconcerned with things like scientific consensus, Boland wants Maine to become the first in ...