Electronics giants to create wireless HD standard July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. | |
 Saving lives with 10-kilo phone network July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A ten-kilo GSM mobile phone network developed by European researchers will allow rescue workers to set up communications just hours, or even minutes, after a man-made or natural catastrophe. It will mean more ... | |
 China's mobile users top 600 million: govt 15 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The number of mobile users in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, now tops 600 million, the government said, as subscribers increasingly abandon fixed lines. | |
Building a better telecom system July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Hurricane Katrina helped University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. ... | |
Breaking up not so hard to do with Slydial July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The old song had it right: Breaking up is hard to do. But a free new phone service called Slydial might make it easier to get through that and other awkward moments - without actually having to talk to anyone. | |
UN agency pushes global ID for emergency contacts July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- In the English-speaking world, many cell phone users leave emergency contact information in the devices' address books under an entry labeled "ICE" - for "in case of emergency." | |
 Review: TextBuyIt fun, easy to use, but limited July 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- TextBuyIt, a recently launched shop-by-cell phone service from Amazon.com Inc., seemed like the ultimate comparison shopping tool - perfect for an unabashed bargain hunter like myself. | |
AT&T introduces global GPS service for phones July 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Is it a long, long way to Tipperary? Don't know if you're on the path to Bath? AT&T Inc. aims to help, with a new phone service that truly puts the "global" in the Global Positioning System, or GPS. | |
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