Last week, I discovered-quite by accident-that the version of iSkoot for the Nokia N95 was sending the entire session in the clear. In short, your Skype credentials, and everything you were using...
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Rather than wait for iPhones to start shipping with application support, the folks at Fring have decided to release an iPhone version of their IM and VoIP client. This means, for the moment, you must...
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I got an email from the folks at Skyfire letting me know that they were about to start making their web browser available for beta testing. If you signed up before 1 March, you will be among the first...
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Trapster lets people with GPS-enabled phones document the exact location of a speed trap or red light camera. You can either run an application on your phone, access the mobile version of the site...
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Mark Rollins over on The Gadgets Weblog wrote about a service I wrote about a while ago: SpinVox. SpinVox has a number of ways you can utilize their speech-to-text technology. One way is to use it to...
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Rico Mossesgeld over at The Smart PDA lets us know that Picasa Web Albums, which is Google's (pathetic) answer to Flickr, is now iPhone optimized. Here's the posting on Google's Mobile...
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Mobile wallet, anyone? Fourteen operators within the GSM Association, representing 40 percent of the world's mobile customers, have agreed to a standard approach to implementing near-field...
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Filed in archive New Applications
by Scott on September 20, 2006
Motorola announced Tuesday morning it is purchasing Symbol Technologies, an enterprise mobility apps and hardware company, for about $400 million. Symbol is the largest maker of both retail scanners...
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Filed in archive New Applications
by Scott on September 15, 2006
Via Picturephoning comes word that some airlines are considering using mobiles as boarding passes in the nearish future, with the possibility of having the technology in play by 2010. Both British...
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By way of Lockergnome comes news that hotel chain Marriott is testing a new mobile check-in app in Redmond, Washington for Windows Mobile devices (get the connection? Redmond? Windows?). Using an app...
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Jyri Engstrom and friends have released an early version of what they are calling a "mobile social phonebook". The application, called Jaiku, is currently designed for Symbian Series 60...
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I originally talked about this on Smartspace, but since Kaywa thanked me publicly, I thought I'd blow it on out to a wider audience. You may have heard of QR codes, (the one seen here is the code...
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Filed in archive New Applications
by on July 01, 2006
Who needs the World Cup (clearly, not England or Brazil--so much for the marketing dollars)? So why not take those spare brain cycles over to Wireless World Forum and enjoy Carnival of the Mobilists...
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Word has been buzzing around the blogosphere (damn, I promised myself I'd never use that word) about the latest upgrade to TivoToGo. (For those not in the US, Tivo is a Digital Video Recorder you...
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Germany's T-Mobile is pleased that response to its churn-managing effort T-Mobile@Home, a convergent mobile/fixed-line substitution service, has been sehr gut. According to Dow Jones, the...
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MyNuMo, a mobile content community site that allows members to post and sell their own mobile content online, has launched a promotional tool called NuMoMatic. The tool automatically creates an...
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SonyEricsson rolled out five new handsets today across a broad range of market segments. They are: The Z710 - A dual-use clamshell handset with features for both work and play. It's push-mail...
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The world just got a lot scarier. YouTube, the ridiculously popular video upload service/ soon to be the next big global video network, now allows uploads to its site from mobiles, so we can all see...
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Microsoft has found itself a buddy in the rapidly evolving Japanese mobile media world. The Redmond company struck a deal yesterday with NTT DoCoMo to create a media service for the coming wave of...
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(Via Mobhappy) Opera Software has released version 2.0 of their mobile browsing software Opera Mini."Opera Mini has kick-started real mobile Web browsing by enabling non-smartphone owners to...
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It slipped by quietly on May 1, but LEGO announced that its upcoming release of software for its Mindstorms DIY robot gear will be open to anyone with the skillz to hack - i.e. it will be open source...
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