mobile
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HTC to ship Google handsets by year-end
High Tech Computer (HTC) is now manufacturing Google handsets with shipments officially commencing at the end of 2007, according to handset component makers. The makers also said the shipment volume will reach as high as one million units.Google handsets will hit the global market in 2008, noted the component makers.
HTC to ship Google handsets by year-end
Citi unveils cell-phone banking
Citibank on Monday launched Citi Mobile, which allows consumers to access their accounts and make transactions from their cell phones. Two other major banks, Wachovia and Bank of America, have unveiled similar versions of the technology in the past few months.
I wonder if this service will work better than their hopelessly hard to use website.
Citi unveils cell-phone banking - Apr. 2, 2007
New 'bedouins' transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office
A new breed of worker, fueled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehouses of San Francisco. Roaming from cafe to cafe and borrowing a name from the nomadic Arabs who wandered freely in the desert, they've come to be known as "bedouins." San Francisco's modern-day bedouins are typically armed with laptops and cell phones, paying for their office space and Internet access by buying coffee and muffins. "In 'Lawrence of Arabia,' the bedouins always felt like they were on the warpath. They had greater cause," said Niall Kennedy, a 27-year-old San Franciscan who quit his day job at Microsoft Corp. to run his own Web company, Patrick Media, out of cafes and a rented desk. "At a startup, you're always on the go, plowing ahead, with some higher cause driving you."
New 'bedouins' transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office
Pantech C3 review
While thicker than Motorola Inc.'s hugely successful Razr and its mimics, the C3 is smaller in every other way, starting with weight and ending with price, which at this point is zero if you're willing to sign a two-year service contract.No, it's not quite as pretty as the dashing devices making their way down the cellular runway these days, and no doubt Apple Inc.'s iPhone will turn more heads. Even so, the compact, minimalist style of the C3 seems to catch some eyes when people see me take it out.
Review: Size a big feature on tiny phone - Yahoo! News
China to have 600 million mobile phone users by 2010
China is expected to have more than 600 million mobile phone users by 2010, state media said Wednesday.Xinhua News Agency, citing the Ministry of Information Industry, said the number of mobile users this year should reach 520 million, up from 460 million in 2006.
It also said the number of Chinese using the Internet will top 200 million, accounting for 15 percent of the country's population of 1.3 billion.
Report: China to have 600 million mobile phone users by 2010 - International Herald Tribune
My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots
When you dial a number, you have a choice of seeing said number in a gigantic, ghastly typeface, or watching it moronically scribbled on parchment by an animated quill. I can't find an option to see it in small, uniform numbers. The whole thing is the visual equivalent of a moronic clip-art jumble sale poster designed in the dark by a myopic divorcee experiencing a freak biorhythmic high. Worst of all, it seems to have an unmarked omnipresent shortcut to Orange's internet service, which means that whether you are confused by the menu, or the typeface, or the user- confounding buttons, you are never more than one click away from accidentally plunging into an overpriced galaxy of idiocy, which, rather than politely restricting itself to news headlines and train timetables, thunders "BUFF OR ROUGH? GET VOTING!" and starts hurling cameraphone snaps of "babes and hunks" in their underwear at you, presumably because some pin-brained coven of marketing gonks discovered the average Orange internet user was teenage and incredibly stupid, so they set about mercilessly tailoring all their "content" toward priapic halfwits, thereby assuring no one outside this slim demographic will ever use their gaudy, insulting service ever again. And then they probably reached across the table and high-fived each other for skilfully delivering "targeted content" or something, even though what they should really have done, if there was any justice in the world, is smash the desk to pieces, select the longest wooden splinters they could find, then drive them firmly into their imbecilic, atrophied, world-wrecking rodent brains.
My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots
10 New Ways to Make Money Online
So you want to ditch your corporate cubicle and join the ranks of web workers? But you have a mortgage, maybe a dependent or two, and a taste for Venti Mochas from Starbucks? You can make money in the new economy, though it might not be as easy or cushy as keeping your old economy job.I’m not talking about advertising or affiliate marketing or selling your junk on eBay. Those are so last millennium! I’m talking about the new new economy.
Web Worker Daily � Blog Archive 10 New Ways to Make Money Online �
DALEK Edition Supersampler
Back in the winter of 2003, we met a Brooklyn gentleman who goes by the name of “Dalek.” As part of a gallery project entitled “Dream So Much,” we lent him a white Colorsplash camera to customize as he pleased. Two weeks later, we were awestruck to see the results! Our plain camera had been transformed into a jazzy black and white number that used dozens of black typeset stickers to create a half-camo, half jumbled letters pattern – with one crazy, staring eye smack in the middle of it.With this in mind, we contacted Dalek last year with a pitch to create the first artist-customized Lomography camera. Given his precision linework, amazing use of color, and world-famous “Space Monkey” motifs, we were positive that the results would be stunning. Man, were we ever right about that! Without a doubt, Dalek is one of the coolest people that we have ever had the pleasure of working with. Talented, easygoing, and rocking a set of really fierce tattoos – we formed an instant friendship with him. After receiving a camera and 10-pack of film from us, Dalek set about creating an entirely new graphic look for the Supersampler. He was easily inspired by it’s future-world design and crispy four-frame sequential images. Alongside his personal photo shoots, we asked our global community at large to submit their finest Supersampler shots for inclusion in a collaborative book.
Airlines Sharpen Sites for Web-Savvy Traveler
On the other hand, as noted here last week, there is the rapidly growing business-travel market of small companies, independent contactors and others who can’t negotiate volume discounts. According to Orbitz, which recently introduced a companion Web site called Road Warrior to serve this market, online “unmanaged” business travel spending is about $28 billion a year.That is a pretty big pool of potential revenue. So with the rapid growth of small-business and independent employee travel, booking sites, including those run by airlines and hotels, are scrambling to redesign their Web sites to appeal to that Internet-savvy market.
Airlines Sharpen Sites for Web-Savvy Traveler - New York Times
The ringtones that ruin romance
Not just for Valentines day.
There you are, out on your romantic Valentine's Day meal. The room is candlelit, the wine is flowing...then his mobile rings, and it's that bloody ringtone that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up in annoyance. Especially if it's Right Said Fred. Bit of a passion killer, no?Well, thanks to the good people at Felix Group, who sell thousands of ringtones through their MAX BOX kiosks across the UK, you can now make sure that your choice of ringtone says only the right things about you. They've conducted a highly scientific - ahem- survey to find out which ringtones are the most off-putting to members of the opposite sex.
The ringtones that ruin romance
RIM unveils BlackBerry 8800 smartphone
Research In Motion (RIM) on Monday introduced the BlackBerry 8800, a new smartphone that builds on the media playing capabilities of RIM’s the BlackBerry Pearl phone. The 8800 will debut later this month in North America through AT&T, the same carrier that will carry Apple’s iPhone in June, starting at $299 with a two-year service commitment.It gives you phone, email, organizer, web browsing and instant messaging. And then it goes a step further, providing GPS for enhanced access to location based applications and services, including the pre-loaded BlackBerry® Maps application. A media player for your video clips and music. Expandable memory to ensure you’ve got the room you need for your media files. And a high-capacity battery to allow you to make the most of it all.
Macworld: News: RIM unveils BlackBerry 8800 smartphone
