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If you thought adding Google Voice to Gmail was a good move for Google, consider yourself on the money. The search engine giant has announced that in the 24 hours since they integrated Google Voice into Gmail to serve as a web-based phone call service, over 1 million calls have been made. That works out…
So, for years and years I’ve been talking about how Japan has been using NFC (near field communications) technology to turn all those Japanese featurephones into electronic wallets, but only now are we seeing the beginnings of this tech making its way Stateside. While it’s still not the ideal phone-as-wallet setup that we’d like to…
Google’s email service has today transcended beyond its initial role as a web-based email reader with the integration of Google Voice into Gmail. The Gmail inbox is already the communications hub for a large percentage of the breathing public, but today, Google is taking it to the next level. With Google Voice integration, what was…
If your monthly wireless bill tends to be higher than your friends, chances are good that you are Black or a female – and all bets are off if you’re Black and female. No, we’re not being racist or sexist – there’s a new study that shows that black people and women tend to talk…
When it comes to mobile technology, most automakers seem to have little more than a casual guess as to how to integrate mobile phones and their wireless connections into cars. That’s where Ford and the MyFord Touch-enabled 2011 Ford Edge comes in to show the relatively stagnant automotive industry that high-end mobile car tech should…
Apple isn’t just looking to keep their iPhone and iPod devices secure from the ever-present threat of users looking to jailbreak their smartphone/media player, the Cupertino, CA.-based tech company is apparently considering using biometric heartbeat sensors to verify authorized users. We recently mentioned that a newly uncovered patent application hinted at Apple’s plans to lock…
There’s a new augmented reality (AR) app for the iPhone, called Augmented Driving, that turns your dash-mounted iPhone into a heads-up display (HUD) for your car. It’s one of the coolest implementations of AR that we’ve yet seen for the iPhone, but it’s also quite possibly the most pointless augmented reality app as far as…
Apple is usually adept at keeping their unannounced products locked down until the company is good and ready for an official launch (iPhone 4 debacle notwithstanding, of course), but no amount of secrecy can keep hardcore fans from discovering hints of a new smartphone and iPad in some USB configuration files. Today, we’re hearing that…
We’ve got bad news for all you Android fans looking to pick up a Motorola Droid X from Verizon – it seems Big Red is having trouble keeping up with demand for the hot, new Android smartphone and has pushed back ship dates to early September. Going on all the reviews of the Droid X,…
While the likes of T-Mobile and AT&T have already launched their own variants of the Samsung Galaxy S – as the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant and the AT&T Samsung Captivate – Sprint has yet to get official with their own Galaxy S Pro variant, the Samsung Epic 4G. So, in the interest of giving all you…