Google entered the mobile phone market this week when T-Mobile rolled out the first handset running the search engine's Android mobile operating system. Oracle also ventured into new territory by announcing that it will sell a hardware product — a database server the company developed with Hewlett-Packard. IBM threatened to leave the standards bodies that determine software interoperability regulations over concerns that the standardization process is unfair. And Microsoft is still searching for a search strategy to compete with Google.
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Just ten months after Google first announced the creation of its Android open source mobile phone platform, T-Mobile will publicly unveil the world’s first Android-powered phone in New York City next week
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It’s a traveler’s worst nightmare: a BlackBerry, filled with personal e-mails, bank account information, and family pictures, is suddenly missing from a pocket or carry-on bag. Not only is a pricey gadget lost, but so is valuable information and contacts.
Now, a cell phone superhero claims it can …
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Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Monday 22 September 2008. 17:30:00
Is that a phone in your pocket?
SPERM HAS YET another enemy – this time it’s none other than your trusty device, the mobile phone. That’s right, the Cleveland Clinic is now saying that keeping your mobile phone in talk-mode and in your pocket can decrease sperm quality – if you’re a man of course. Ashok Agarwal, the Director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine says that, “We believe that these devices are used because we consider them very safe, but it could cause harmful effects due to the proximity of the phones and the exposure that they are causing to the gonads.” Agarwal’s team took semen samples from 32 men and brought them to the lab - we’re hoping this was willingly….
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A new Pew Study suggests 62% of the workforce is more likely than the average American adult to own a cell phone, laptop, and a BlackBerry, Palm, or other PDA.
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A new Pew Study suggests 62% of the workforce is more likely than the average American adult to own a cell phone, laptop, and a BlackBerry, Palm, or other PDA.
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A bloody odd cell phone accessory–a strap that displays your blood type for all to see–is apparently quite popular in Japan. But lest you think it was invented to aid victims in the event of a medical emergency, it more commonly serves as a sort of relationship …
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Let the Internet comment trolling commence!
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The Interwebs are atwitter with a single blurry cell phone shot of what may or may not be one of the newly redesigned MacBook laptops we’ve been reading about.
The pic briefly showed up on a French Web site, and …
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Mobile hardware is outpacing software capabilities and the mobile user experience, according to a group of mobile phone technologists speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Among those speaking was Rich Miner , group manager of mobile platforms at Google , who said open operating systems — like the one launched on Google's the long-awaited G1 Android phone — will drive future innovation, but much of it may be lost on the user in the short term.
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