Nokia wants to help you get your workout-groove on with a new software package, dubbed Sports Track. The idea is (the same as all those other workout “aids”) to get those saddle-bag laden owners of @LINK1@ 3.0 phones – with GPS of course – out and about by helping to track their workout distance, speed,…
Text Message Based Mobile Banking For North America! – Canada
Canada has really been getting all the goodies recently! This time, that other North American country will be getting software-free, text-based mobile banking – another first for the continent. Telus, a leading telecom in the land of the maple leaf, is hooking up with Novato, California-based ClairMail for some mobile-banking bliss.
Video Calling Finally Hits North America – Rogers Canada.
Video calling has hit the shores of North America! What a glorious day…wait, it’s in Canada? Ok, still, it is a big step for NAFTA members, celebration worthy. Canada’s 3G provider, Rogers, is reportedly kicking off this shindig with crazy deals in exchange for 3-years of lock-down. By adding a CDN $5 Vision plan, Rogers…
AT&T Will Upgrade Its High-Speed Network With Faster Upstream Speeds
AT&T’s Kris Rinne, executive vice-president of network planning and architecture, announces that AT&T plans to upgrade its UMTS/HSPA network to enable faster up-link speeds. With HSDPA pushing down-link data at broadband-speeds, AT&T wants to boost their Cingular wireless network’s current UMTS-based up-link speed using HSUPA. The HSUPA software upgrade would enable peak up-link speeds of…
IXI Mobile’s Ogo 2.0 – Here We ‘Ogo’ Again
The Ogo2.0 is the successor to the not-so-successful Ogo personal communicator from IXI Mobile. The idea behind the device was to keep users connected via Instant Messaging and Email. Conspicuously absent from the original Ogo’s feature set, the lack of voice capability, web-surfing, and camera essentially doomed the Ogo to falter in the shadow of…
Electrifying New Battery Charging Tech
In the quest to make our live truly “wireless,” tech startup Powercast has developed a method to wirelessly transmit power via radio waves. The company says that it harnesses the energy of radio waves to power and recharge devices equipped with a special receiver. This promising new technology has the potential to cut one of…
Motorola’s MC35 Has More Brain Than Beauty
Motorola has introduced a new EDA – that’s Enterprise Digital Assistant – that aims to take the PDA to a whole new level with an “all-in-one communication device that harnesses the voice and data applications people expect from an office setting and delivers them in the form of a durable and compact handheld mobile computer.”…
Sugar-Powered Cell Phone On The Horizon?
Cell phones of the future may be powered by sugar. Thanks to some sweet research from Saint Louis University, batteries powering small portable devices may use sugar as their power source – redefining the way we “juice up.” Apparently, “ these sweet batteries run almost three to four times longer on a single charge than…
Sidekick ID Will Come In Fun Colors – And Rebate!
The Sidekick ID, that we’ve been hearing so much about in the past few days, has been spotted wearing a variety of fun colors. The “lite” version of the Sidekick was leaked on T-mobile’s website, in a T-mobile rebate form (they just can’t seem to keep this thing under wraps). It seems T-mobile will be…
The Digital Life: Slate Or Convertible – Which Tablet PC Is For YOU?
Now that we’ve covered the basics of what you need to start your own “digital revolution,” let’s get into the specifics for different solutions. This time around, we’ll talk about (my all-time favorite) the Tablet PC. There are many fish out in that vast Tablet PSea and even more options for applications, so lets sort…