| | This is scary! Your cell phone can be bugged with spyware that allows a spy to listen in your cell phone calls, see your text messages and read your e-mails. See video above from KKTV.com. According to the video there is a website selling the spyware to catch cheating spouses. To prevent your cell phone from being bugged, keep an eye on it, because the spyware has to be uploaded to your cell phone which can take 15 minutes. |
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| | Dan Gallagher of MarketWatch.com had a very interesting video interview with Citigroup's Analyst Jim Suva about whether or not the smartphone market is too crowded. According to Mr. Suva, competition is getting fierce; however, there is still plenty of room for good competitors. See video to the right. |
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Motorola, Inc. today announced the acquisition of RadioFrame Networks’ iDEN business. RadioFrame is a provider of lower cost, power efficient iDEN technology. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. RadioFrame Networks’ iDEN business will be integrated into Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business.
Motorola's proprietary iDEN solution has proven to be an enduring cellular technology due to its innovative and differentiated end-user fast dispatch service and enterprise optimized talk-groups. RadioFrame’s iDEN products will further enhance Motorola's portfolio for multi-channel base stations optimized to support non-contiguous spectrum allocations in the special mobile radio (SMR) business that are especially common outside North America.
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Google has announced a brand new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. Google currently offers a mobile-optimized version of Google News for other phones, such as Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and S60, and more improvements will be coming to those in the near future.
This new version provides the same personalization and richness on your phone as Google News provides on desktop. Google's new homepage displays more stories, sources, and images while keeping a familiar look and feel. Also, you can now reach your favorite sections, discover new ones, find articles and play videos in fewer clicks. If you are an existing Google News reader on desktop, you will find that all of your personalizations are honored in this mobile version too.
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As they’re making their list and checking it twice, customers can download holiday-friendly apps for their Sprint device to help organize, navigate and shop during the busy holiday season. A variety of useful applications are available to Sprint customers through the Android Market, Palm App Catalog, BlackBerry App World and the Sprint Digital Lounge.
“As more consumers are purchasing smartphones, they are looking for mobile apps that can make them more productive,” said Len Barlik, vice president of wireless and wireline services for Sprint. “Mobile applications are one the fastest growing segments in the wireless industry. Sprint customers can choose from thousands of apps and find the ones they want for fun, work or even to help with their holiday preparations.” | |
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Motorola has announced the Motorola Crush, which comes with a high-end design, excellent call quality and multimedia features, all at an affordable price. Boasting a sleek touch screen and large display with one-touch access to your favorite features, the Motorola Crush has everything you need to stay in contact with the people you want to. The Motorola Crush is expected to be available in Q4 2009 with US Cellular.
Up-to-date touch keys give you one-touch access to the phone functions you use most and bring you to the right screen, every time. A high-accuracy touch dialler means you’ll never fumble to make on-the-go calls, and a precise digital QWERTY keyboard lets you get the word out quickly and accurately.
Crush is a sleek touch screen device, yet maintains what matters most— reliable calling. Crush’s tap-to-silence feature lets you silence the ringer with a simple tap to its exterior, eliminating the risk of having your phone ring at the worst moment. So easy, you can do it with your eyes closed.
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TomTom announces that the latest version of the TomTom app for iPhone and iPod touch (version 1.2) can be purchased on the App Store starting today. The new version of the software will be made available for free to existing TomTom app for iPhone customers.
This new version, now also compatible with the iPod touch, includes additional advanced features that TomTom fans around the world have come to appreciate. TomTom car kit for iPod touch which will be available shortly in the United States.
Apple has made continental and regional versions of the TomTom app for iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, original iPhone and iPod touch users, available on http://www.tomtom.com/tomtom-app. The TomTom app for iPhone and iPod touch including maps of the US and Canada is available for $99.99.
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Beginning Sunday, Pantech Wireless, Inc. will bring “Impact” to AT&T customers. The second Pantech handset to hit shelves this holiday season debuts in two cool colors – bright blue and soft pink – and delivers a brand new form factor to AT&T’s line of quick messaging phones. Impact features a high-gloss faceplate with a haptic response touchpad, two screens and a full hidden keyboard, along with a host of the latest social and multimedia options, to make managing your mobile life startlingly fun.
In a world where most phones look identical and feel the same, Impact puts an end to predictability by providing users an altogether new experience. From the outside, Impact’s shiny blackout exterior is surrounded by textured blue or pink detailing. Each time the touchpad below the screen is pressed it springs to action, reacting to finger taps with a soft, tactile buzz. Impact lets users play and control music, make a call, or send texts without ever having to open the phone. |  |
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Verizon Wireless and CASIO today introduced the new CASIO G’zOne (pronounced Jeez_wun) Rock to Verizon Wireless’ growing line-up of rugged phones. Perfect for customers with active lifestyles, the Rock’s advanced G’zGear software operates in six modes, including Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset and Tides, with the help of its Triple Sensor technology. Whether your lifestyle has the demands of an avid fisher, hunter, hiker or climber, the Rock is prepared to handle life’s most challenging obstacles while providing directional information, Push to Talk capabilities and connectivity over the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G network. The CASIO G’zOne is available in Matte black. The CASIO G’zOne Rock is $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted. Verizon Wireless customers can add Unlimited Push to Talk for $5 per month per line to any qualifying Nationwide voice plan. Customers can purchase the CASIO G’zOne Rock beginning Nov. 20 online |  |
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DevelopmentNow, a Portland, Oregon based mobile and social media consulting company, is launching the perfect holiday shopping assistant with its new mobile web site, Dealdar.com.
Dealdar.com takes aim at shopping pet peeves that can test your sanity around this time of year. This mobile web site can be used on any web-capable phone, including iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and other devices, and targets the hard to find gift or bargain in your area by harnessing the power of numbers. Smart and swift designing combines sales information from most major retailers, with reviews, search tagging, twitter feeds and more, giving the user instant access to shopping musts, like the latest pricing, sales, reviews and sold out items - to name a few. Dealdar.com incorporates deals, tips, and ratings submitted in real time by other shoppers in your area. This type of "crowd sourcing" allows you to virtually shop multiple stores at once. | |
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DriveSafe.ly, the free mobile app aiming to stop distracted driving, launched seven weeks ago and has been used by over one million people. The app is reading millions of text messages (SMS) aloud per week to drivers around the world -- keeping their eyes on the road. See the DriveSafe.ly video (Walkthrough, FAQ, Help, Demo) above. | |
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Today, Ambient Industrie, a mobile application software company, debuts flook, in the Apple Store. Offered for free, flook is a location browser that lets users discover and share the world around them. (See demo video below).
Flook’s design is being lead by a team of four co-creators with deep programming, entrepreneurial and creative backgrounds – Roger Nolan and Jane Sales founders of Symbian, led the teams creating that company’s comms and kernel respectively. Tristan Brotherton has deep web and media expertise and Dave Jennings’ background in machine intelligence and location services informed flook’s servers. Together, they have built an imagination-centric company, shrugging off the typical corporate structure, enabling the creativity and wonder that has gone into flook’s world of robots, color and whimsical interface. | |
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The latest wave of Mobile Market View, a consumer study of adult U.S. mobile phone users conducted by BIA/Kelsey with research partner ConStat, reveals a rapid rise in mobile device usage for non-voice communications—text messages, e-mail and Internet access—driven primarily by the proliferation of smartphones.
Among mobile consumers surveyed in October for Mobile Market View, 18.5 percent searched the Internet for products or services in their local area, up from 15.6 percent in 2008, and 16.7 percent connected with a social network such as MySpace or Facebook, up from 9.6 percent in 2008. | |
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