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In what could be extremely useful but also quite annoying, the New York subways will soon be getting full cellular and WiFi service. That’s right folks, you soon won’t be able to find any respite from other people’s conversations. The transportation agency responsible for the subways has just signed a deal with Transit Wireless, and…
International Data Corporation (IDC) keeps meticulous records of who ships what in the mobile phone space and today they’re reporting that shipments for the first half of 2010 totaled 620.6 million units, up 18.5% from the 523.5 million units shipped during the first two quarters of 2009. If that isn’t a sign that the economy…
If Google can do it, so can Baidu. The Chinese company wants to team up with handset makers and carriers to have its search box integrated on handsets sold in China. Google already has similar arrangements with several companies, as I’m sure you have noticed. When you think about it, it only makes sense for…
UK’s Crime Prevention Minister James Brokenshire announced a new deal with recycling companies under which they [companies] will use stolen handset database when accepting phones for recycling. The idea is to close a loophole that enabled thieves to sell about 100,000 mobile phones a year. At the moment, about 90% of handsets stolen in the…
San Francisco is actually a hotbed of smartphone activity with multiple mobile startups and everyone and their mom rocking an Apple iPhone, but the city is in a war with the mobile industry over the issue of cell phone radiation. The industry’s trade association, the CTIA, recently filed a lawsuit against San Francisco’s ordinance which…
India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet computer aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. As you can expect, the device runs Linux, and it doesn’t have a hard drive – memory cards will be used for all the storage. The tablet is/will be made to…
It was Wall Street week as Apple, Microsoft and Nokia posted very different quarterly earnings and these provided great insight into who is winning in the mobile space. We also put the Samsung Galaxy S phones under the microscope and Apple finally started taking orders for those free bumper cases. Let’s stop wasting time and…
I’m getting old… Who would say that it was a year ago when I first wrote about the formation of Tata DOCOMO. Belive it or not, it WAS a year ago as these days they are celebrating the first anniversary. In the meantime, the carrier has unveiled some cool and innovative stuff, including charging people…
India’s Tata DOCOMO is introducing a cool voice plan called “Voice Free,” which includes 40 local minutes (2,400 seconds) per day. The new plan is initially offered to the carrier’s customers in Andhra Pradesh, where interested folks can grab the the “Voice Free Recharge” in three denominations of Rs. 200, Rs. 350 and Rs. 500,…
And you thought you could avoid answering a text message in a submarine? Soon enough that won’t be an excuse thanks to a 40-inch-long buoy that allows submarine captains to send SMSes from under the sea. As you can guess for yourself, the buoy stays tethered to the submarine by miles of cables which can…