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