A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge, led by Professor Arokia Nathan are working to develop technologies that would make daily phone charging a thing of the past. To keep a phone's battery topped up, the team has built a prototype device that recaptures wasted light from and OLED phone screen. According to researcher Arman Ahnood, only around 36 percent of the light produced by a phone screen is projected forwards – the rest escapes around the edges. [......]
The Asus Zenbook: a steely marvel with an appalling trackpad : The ASUS Zenbook is a beautiful ultrabook, except for one crippling weakness. Viacom so devastated by piracy that CEO gets $50 million raise : Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman got an impressive $50.5 million raise in 2010. This makes us skeptical of Hollywood's demand that US taxpayers should spend even more money fighting piracy of Viacom content[......]
Google and at least one of its Android partners—Barnes and Noble—have been agitating for a government antitrust investigation of Microsoft's patent licensing practices. Last month, Barnes and Noble submitted a formal request for the Department of Justice to launch a probe. [......]
Ooma’s disruptive VoIP service is hitting Canada per an announcement Wednesday morning. Starting today, Canadian consumers can order the VoIP-in-a-box and place and receive phone calls to anyone within the wide expanse that is the great white north. That is, of course, if that person has plenty of room under their Internet cap[......]
We don't want to turn into TCMZ or anything here, but since this was such an inflammatory story to begin with and we followed up on the criminal charges a couple months ago , it seemed worthwhile to put a cap on the whole "stolen iPhone 4" saga. If you'll remember, Jason Chen (editor at Gizmodo at the time) was sheltered from prosecution by journalism protection laws. [......]
Here's a noodle-scratcher to ponder over the weekend: the HTC Vigor was supposedly going to hit Verizon as the Droid Incredible HD, but files leaked from the forthcoming device hint that the phone may not carry the Droid distinction after all.[......]
If you recognize the phone up top, ye ol' hypothalamus is probably already hard at work churnin' out the "Do Want" signals. [......]
In recent years, the courts have struggled to decide whether the government needs a warrant to access historical records about a cell phone user's location. Some courts have found that when users turn on their cell phones, they "voluntarily" transmit their location to their cell phone providers and thereby waive any expectation of privacy. On Monday, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York soundly rejected this line of reasoning. [......]
Security software is not something that is generally associated with mobile devices such as phones, but the open nature of the Android platform means that viruses are a real threat, just as for desktop computers. [......]
IDC jumps into the debate about Android and mobile developer priorities. Apple's iOS leads the pack, but Android is primed for gains -- even more, if only Google could sort out the messy tablet problem. Assuming apps really matter -- and IDC's findings suggest perhaps not as much as technorati believe -- then which platforms developers prioritize are important, too. [......]
Skype has revolutionized the way we communicate, and armed with a headset you can slash your phone costs either by calling fellow Skype users for free or taking advantage of its cheaper call rates to communicate with both landline and mobile phones. If you've ever needed to record a voice call, you'll have no doubt browsed the Skype Extras shop and discovered a number of paid-for solutions are available. If you can't justify the cost, and your needs are relatively basic, then you can record any Skype voice conversation for free with the aptly titled MP3 Skype Recorder . [......]
Kyocera did what a clever cell phone manufacturer whose home market has the oldest society in the world (over 20% of the Japanese people are 65 or older) has to do: it manufactured a cell phone specifically designed for the elderly. While the basic concept isn't new, the way the so-called Mi-Look [JP] works certainly is. [......]
During a yearlong investigation of "cramming"—the practice of sticking unauthorized third-party charges onto telephone bills for dubious "services"—a Senate Commerce Committee investigator was told repeatedly that customers wanted services like online games and $14.95/month voicemail. [......]
Clearly the Android Market is growing rapidly, and there’s no reason to even mention the Apple App Store , which just breezed by the 100,000 iPad app marker. [......]
When you're a small independent company in a market dominated by gargantuan global über-brands, how do you compete? For Urban Coffee Company, a tiny concern that until recently had only one coffee emporium, located in the middle of Birmingham's business district, the answer is technology and innovation. Oh, and great coffee, of course. [......]
