Category: Mobile Phones and Smartphones
Cingular Email Brings Email to Subscribers’ Cell Phones
Cingular Wireless is providing customers with Cingular email access to their AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts through their existing cell phones.
Presidents of the USA’s Free Music Video “Some Postman” Made Entirely with Cell Phones
A free music video made entirely with cell phones is thought to be a first, and was filmed by the Presidents of the United States for their hit single “Some Postman”.
Ringtones: Passing Craze, or Major Media Market?
Free ringtones or pay-for-play ringtones, either way, ringtone downloads have surpassed music downloads for many bands, and now account for more than 10% of the global music market!
Your Cell Phone Can Make International VoIP Calls, Pay for Purchases, Nothing to Add!
Tufone and MobileLime allow you to make international VoIP calls from your cell phone, and to use your cellular phone in place of your credit card or debit card.
Sex, Lies and Video Phones (Or Why Not to Make Sex Videos of Yourself with Your Cell Phone)
A cell phone repairman has been busted for selling home sex videos which he found on his customers’ cell phones.
Pet Phone Lets You Feed Pets, Talk to Pets, Remotely
Pet Phone, like PetsCell, is a new device intended to allow you to communicate with and, to some extent, tend your pet remotely. However unlike PetCell, which is a cell phone for pets, Pet Phone allows you to remotely feed your pet, using just your cell phone.
iPhone Rokr and iPod Nano Announced – A Rocker Phone and An Executive iPod
The Apple rocker phone, as some are calling the new iPhone, and the iPod Nano, were announced this week by Apple. Where the ROKR based iPhone (some are calling it ROCKR or even ROCKER, but it’s actually “ROKR”) is indeed a rocker phone, the new iPod Nano is more like an executive iPod.
CarChip and TeenArriveAlive – Monitor Your Child’s Driving Remotely
TeenArriveAlive and CarChip are technologies designed to keep your teen safe behind the wheel by allowing you to remotely monitor their every driving move. Using GPS location in one case, and inviting strangers to report on the child’s driving in another, TeenArriveAlive and CarChip are sure to be controversial.
Wherify Wherifone – Cell Phone with GPS Locator Lets You GPS Track Your Kids
The Wherify Wherifone offers a simple pre-programmed cell phone with a built-in GPS locator, so that you can keep track of your child, grandmother, or employee.
Motorola ROKR Confirmed as the New iPod iTunes Phone
Motorola ROKR phones are being confirmed as the new iTunes phones, sources say. Pictures, if accurate, show that the iTunes phone even sports the iPods scroll wheel.
Cell Phones to Get Ring-back Advertising Courtesy of Perceptive Impression’s Promotel
Ring-back advertising is sure to annoy your friends and colleagues when they call you and instead of hearing your cell phone ring, they get Perceptive Impression’s ring-back spam, brought to you by Promotel, Inc..
Camera Phone Thief Danny Aquino Busts Self – Sends Camera Phone Pics to Owner
Danny Aquino acquired John Clennan’s camera phone illegally – then used the phone to take pictures of himself, which were stored, along with Aquino’s email address, in Clennan’s account. Oops. Where Clennan found them. Double oops.
Cellular Phone Charger Powered by Hamster and Wheel
Cellular phones get a power boost from a hamster and his wheel, as a British teenager invents the first recorded hamster-powered cellular phone charger.
Bluecasting’s Bluespamming Blasted by Internet Security Industry
Bluecasting says that what they do is not spamming, because you asked for it. The Internet security industry is taking notice, and they say that it’s dangerous.
Cellular Phones to Track Children, Babysitting Phone to be Introduced by Motorola
Cellular phones which track children and censor the content they receive are being introduced by Motorola. Welcome to 1984, kids. Motorola and Big Momma are watching you.
