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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
