Wireless Carriers to Boost Outcourcing Industry by $1.4 Trillion in 5 Years

June 12th, 2007

Wireless carries are predicted to outsource as much $1.4 trillion in operational expenses in the next five years. Outsourcing cuts cost for Western companies by relocating operations to countries were labor is many times cheaper. With the wireless industry becoming more competitive and products decreasing in profit margins, carriers are forced to ship operations to […]

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Charge Cellphone Wirelessly Through Magnetic Induction

June 12th, 2007

Forget plugging your charger to a socket. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed remote charging using magnetic induction between two devices that resonate with one another. Objects that resonate on the same frequency send energy from each other, a phenomenon called “strong coupling.”
Marin Soljacic, a theoretical physicist and his MIT colleagues, […]

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iPhone’s Keyboard Will Kill It

June 12th, 2007

Touted as a revolutionary in the mobile phone industry, the iPhone boasts of two features that will be unequaled during its release: it’s multi-touch user interface If there will ever be an iPhone Killer this year, it’s going to be iPhone itself, according to John C. Dvorak, popular technology columnist. A source, who apparently was […]

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Long-Range Bluetooth in ASUS V90 goes 100m

June 12th, 2007

I don’t know where my mind is, calling Asus everything but revolutionary. The ASUS Z8801 Karaoke phone should have alerted me about what’s to come from this Taiwanese manufacturer.
The ASUS V90 3MP cam phone is a 13.5mm-thick candybar with a 2-inch QVGA screen, an FM tuner and Bluetooth connectivity for 100-meter radius.
I’m not […]

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Phonebooks Get Slimmer in the Wireless Age

June 12th, 2007

Phonebooks are not just an alphabetized and categorized collection of land line numbers, they are an everyday article with numerous uses. Right now, I am using a one-inch thick Metro Manila Residential Listings (white pages) as a mouse pad. It doesn’t only offer a smooth, relatively dust-free surface for my mouse, it also acts as […]

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More Leaked iPhone Features: Is This the Revolution?

June 12th, 2007

Engadget got hold of “scans” from a “confidential” internal document from Apple titled “iPhone Sales Training Workbook.” Features like being able to make calls while browsing is definitely revolutionary. I like doing that often on my laptop using Skype, and I’m just about aching to do it while crossing the street (kids, don’t you do […]

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Nokia N77 Officially Available

June 12th, 2007

Nokia’s new Nseries phone, the N77, tunes in to mobile TV using DVB-H technology, currently the dominant mobile TV standard in the U.S. and Europe. The N77 runs on Symbina’s S60 3rd Edition and viewing is crisp on its 2.4-inch 240 x 320 screen. The N77 does not just offer passive mobile TV viewing, […]

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SMS Revenues Still Growing, Now $60 Billion

June 12th, 2007

Wireless providers may be thinking 3G and Mobile TV, but the people on the street and still racking up charges for SMS, more popularly known as “texting.” The good news came from Informa Telecoms and Media via the Global Messaging 2007 conference held in Monte Carlo. According to Informa, mobile messaging is almost $80 billion […]

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Gates Says PC Will Be the New Office Phone

June 12th, 2007

Speaking at Microsoft’s annual CEO Summit at the Redmond, Washington, Bill Gates said that the office landline will soon be a thing for the museums.
“You’ll have the PC with a phone peripheral and then you’ll have your mobile phone. And the mobile phone and that PC will be working together in a rich way,” Gates […]

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Does your cell phone make you coffee?

June 12th, 2007

Much water has flowed under the bridge since the first call was made with the cell phone. Modern mobile devices are designed not just for calling but making our life easier with seamless mobility. While manufacturers are trying to impress us with revolutionary features, users become more demanding and versed.
For those […]

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