Tag: MOBILE PHONE

Zurfer is straight out of the Yahoo! Research Berkeley facility. This handheld application is a location based photo browser. What it is in basic terms is Flickr for your mobile device. The Zurfer application is currently being developed in the Yahoo research labs, and will -- when loaded on mobile phones -- showcase photos taken around you based on current gps co-ordinates. You can also pull ...

APC Magazine has an intriguing interview with Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker on the state of mobile web browsers and Mozilla's plans to develop a mobile version of Firefox. Baker says developers are working on a mobile browser, but says it's a long term goal and nothing users should expect to see anytime soon. While the Minimo project is based on Mozilla, it isn't an official product and ...

Ubuntu is quickly become the Linux distribution of choice for users looking for a desktop Windows replacement. But why stop there? Ubuntu developers are planning to create a mobile version of the popular distribution. The mobile version of Ubuntu will be designed to run on systems running Intel's new low-power processor and chipset designed for mobile devices. Ubuntu is planning a mobile version ...

Web browsers on mobile phones and PDAs are notoriously bad at rendering web pages meant to be viewed on monitors with resolutions of 1024x768 or higher resolutions. Pages can take an incredibly long time to load, and once they do, you're often presented with the least important information first as the browser puts all the navigation links from the left side of the page first, followed by the ...

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Be_your_own_mobile_carrier_with_Sonopia'; Starting today you, yes you, can be your very own mobile carrier through the company Sonopia. Sonopia allows individuals to create their own calling plans and then sell them to others. Your wireless carrier is just like any other with unique calling plans and allows you to send out messages to your subscribers. ...

We know what a "smart" phone is. I've recently learned what constitutes a dumb phone and how it foils productivity. However, it makes a gaping hole in a wall when you throw it with the force of frustration. Smart phones are PDAs and phones and include email, calendar, contact list, tasks, Web browser, and, oh yes, telephone capability. Most of us are used to cell phones, which are mostly just ...

So you've got that fancy new smartphone, and you've got an unlimited data plan from your wireless provider. What's the first thing you want to do? Install Skype for Windows Mobile and start making cheap international phone calls over your data connection without paying exorbitant service fees for international calls. Okay, maybe that's not the first thing, but it's up there. Unfortunately, most ...

After spending a few months in beta, Windows Live Search for Mobile has gone... live. The update includes a couple of bug fixes, and a bunch of new features including the ability to save search results on a Windows Mobile phone and send them via SMS to your friends. The contact list has also been integrated into Live search, meaning you can quickly get directions to the locations of people in your ...

There's plenty of ways to transfer YouTube or Google videos to a mobile device. But what if you don't feel like downloading and transcoding videos to save on your phone? Movidity hopes you'll just say YouWho? and use their site instead. Movidity plans to launch movy.tv in January. The site will let users upload audio or video content which will automatically be converted into a format that is ...

Podlinez wants to take the "pod" out of podcasting. The service went live just a few days ago, allowing you to listen to podcasts without downloading them, and without an internet connection. All you have to do is dial a phone number to listen to the podcast of your choice. Here's how it works: You take the feed for any podcast and type it in to the box at Podlinez. If the feed is in their ...

Some of the best time wasters are not games at all - instead they're environments that allow us to experiment. The most recent one I've seen was Line Rider, which absorbed way too much of my supposedly "free" time. (Thanks Jordan). Today's golden oldie day for me, since I'm posting about yet another long lost friend. This one is called Ball Droppings. Although the name isn't all that pleasant, the ...

Google has reportedly opened up access to Gmail for users in Japan, after a successful launch of open access for Australia and New Zealand users. Google is trying to raise its presence in the mobile phone capital of the world, where more people access the internet from mobile phones than from personal computers. [via Reuters] ...

Jangl lets you communicate with anyone, without revealing your mobile phone number, or exchanging it with anyone else. How it works is that your 10 digit phone number is masked by a Jangl ID number. It's as simple as letting someone know your easy to remember Jangl ID. No more remembering crazy 10 digit phone numbers when you don't have a pen lying around. The Jangl service provides two way ...