VoxLib announced the launch of VOX for Skype, a plugin application to Skype that enables Skype to be used on any mobile device. This plugin enables users to benefit from Skype while away from their desktop. VOX for Skype requires...
MINO Wireless, announced its new mobile application for making inexpensive international calls designed for Symbian OS phones. Symbian OS supported mobilephone, such as Nokia, Sony Ericcson, and Motorola can call any phone worldwide at rates starting from 2.2 cents...
Can't wait to see this one in production units! Fascinating article in online verson of PC Magazine yesterday about the phone that has no keys. Yes, that's right -- a touchscreen instead of a keypad (dial pad -- hey, how...
Ten years ago, camera companies had nothing to worry about except each other. But poof! along came digital cameras and the Kodak, Fuji and Nikon's of the camera world had to worry about consumer technology companies like Sony or IT...
Mobilephone purchasers face a myriad of decisions about their choice of phone and service provider. We are all unfortunately spent too much time weighing all of the many factors before we decided. (It wasn't easy, but do you start...
VoiceOne Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of VoIP, Inc. announced today that it has added Text Messaging (Mobile SMS) functionality to its just-released beta version of Click4Me.Net. This enables a Web-click calling service that utilizes VoIP technology for free phone-to-phone...
Here's the study I've been waiting for. According to a recent PC World/IDB News Service report, feature-rich phones do not drive sales. (Really?) The study, by J.D. Power and Associates (they of the manmy car satisfaction surveys) showed that U.S. consumers are...
What's your favorite flavor mobilephone? (The heat must be getting to me ...)Well, if you said "Make mine chocolate," then LG has the phone for you. Yes, that's right, it's "Chocolate," which is now available through Verizon Wireless. The Chocolate mobile...
Google announced an update to Google Maps for mobile that will enable consumers in the U.S. to view detailed information on traffic conditions in more than 30 major metropolitan areas, as well as partial information in other area from a...
Much excitement today about Microsoft's announcement that it is planning on developing an iPod competitor to take on Apple directly. What's funny is that Microsoft goes one way, Apple goes another (so what else is new?). Seems Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer...
Paragon Wireless released the world first commercial GSM/VoWLAN dual-mode smart phone, hipi, in March 2006 and was my pick to be a winner in this years' TMC Labs Innovation Awards. With a tri-band GSM/GPRS (Class 10) radio and an IEEE...
T-Mobile is blocking MinuteWatcher, a service that lets customers actively monitor their wireless minutes usage. T-Mobile has changed conditions in their policy and taken technical measures to prevent MinuteWatcher from tracking T-Mobile members voluntary tracking of cellphone usage. Specifically, T-Mobile...
According to the CTIA, the Wireless Association President and CEO Steve Largent congratulated the U.S. Treasury Department today for its decision to abandon its legal dispute over the federal excise tax (FET) on long-distance telephone service. The 108 year old...
Now here’s an idea whose times has truly come. The music group Planet Funk will become the first music group in the U.K. to release a single that will be available only on mobilephones this month. Let’s see how...
BridgePort Networks is making some interesting announcments at the CTIA Wireless show. Most importantly they are demonstrating how they leverages SIP and IMS to demonstrate seamless handover based on 'VCC' technical requirements. If you're not familiar with IMS or...
Well, I'm late to the Area775 party, Alec Saunders covered Michael Robertson's new venture quite nicely. Michael Robertson was kind enough to give me a heads-up on the Area775 news on Wednesday before the news hit the wires, but I...
News that Nokia and Sanyo are merging their CDMA mobilephone businesses in the U.S. into a new, separate business, just makes one wonder -- what does Nokia see that others don't? ...
Interesting bit of news I thought I'd share from iSkoot that lets you call your buddy list from your mobilephone without needing your PC. They claims it is the "first Mobile-Voice To Skype Network" but I think eqo...
Global IP Sound (GIPS), a popular VoIP codec/voice engine used by Skype, Google Talk, and others, is now available on the Sony Ericcson P990 phone using the OptiMobile softclient called WBX UniPhone. I wonder if this is the first non-Windows...
The Deal's Tech Confidential today nicely sums up Google and Yahoo's plays into the mobilephone space. Search on a cell phone would be a good thing -- as long as you can do it easily and the service is fast. ...
Hop-on, Inc. today launched a GPS tracking phone for children that kids wear like a wristwatch. Called the Chitter Chatter phone, they claim it is the world’s smallest GSM / Enhanced Location-Based-Services(LBS) Locator Phone. The Chitter Chatter phone will cost...
Slingbox plans on adding a software client to complement their popular Slingbox streaming video content hardware device. According to IP Democracy:Place-shifting pioneer SlingBox is slated to announce at CES this week a new software client that allows any Windows Media-capable...
BREAKING! Symbol has two new ruggedized mobile devices coming out called the MC9094 and the MC9097, running Windows Mobile 5.0 with cellular/mobilephone access, a touch-screen, and a full-sized keyboard + dialpad that aims to dethrone the Blackberry. (Update: See...
Navizon Transforms Cell Phones, Wi-Fi Devices into a GPS device and leverages P2P for locating your buddies. What I'd really like for this technology to do is use my idea of P2P GPScasting to transmit your GPS coordinates to others...
The LG VX9800 is now available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers. The VX9800 uses EVDO wireless technology and is packed with features for viewing Verizon's V CAST videos, listening to music, Instant Messaging, e-mail, text messaging and text-to-speech capabilities. The...