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31

The public health issue of mobile phones

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March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A award winning neurosurgeon who has published dozens of scientific papers, reviewed 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones and concluded “it is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking.” He advises “people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments [...]

Mar

28

Slap me some skin

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March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Good news, apparently Buffalo Bill has rebounded well from the setback of being shot 6 times by Clarice Starling. He is currently working as a mobile phone designer with LG and his therapy has been going well even though some of his old habits tend to die hard. This has never been as apparent than [...]

Mar

27

Motorola breaks up with self

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March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Motorola’s handset struggles have been public for quite awhile and today a press release confirmed that the Mobile Phone Division will be separated from the rest of its operations. This will create two separate public companies and is an attempt at turning around its 45% decrease in stock price over the past year.
The downward spiral [...]

Mar

25

Blackberry 8820 available thru T-Mobile

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March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Blackberry 8820 launched over the weekend on T-Mobiles GSM network. The compact Blackberry has an improved raised keyboard but still uses the touch sensitive navigation and it is far more cumbersome to use than the trackwheel that seemingly has been retired. This is a UMA device and setting up the router is a snap [...]

Mar

24

Wireless Auction and Google

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March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Even though Google got outbid in the 700 Mhz Wireless Auction and didn’t win any licenses they are now trying to convince the FCC to allow the use of ‘white spaces’, which is essentially the spaces between other bands that some people call a great untapped resource. Some feel that white spaces should be used [...]

Mar

21

The race for the 1st Android Mobile

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March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The HTC Dream has been confirmed as the likely flagship of Google’s Mobile OS Android. Details are much the same as before, a hidden qwerty keyboard along with a touch screen interface. The Dream will likely hit the market near the end of this year advised ‘the source’ which spoke to InfoWorld most likely after [...]

Mar

18

Nokia sued for 4 Billion…

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March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The German government is demanding that Nokia pay back $4 billion euros worth of subsidies after the company announced plans to close its factory in Bochum, Germany. This was the amount of money the German Research Ministry gave to Nokia to fund four separate research projects. Nokia has announced the closure of its Bochum plant [...]

Mar

17

Microsoft mobile licenses Adobe Flash and Reader

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March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite and Adobe Reader LE PDF software for their mobile software, this of course is in addition to their own Silverlight technology. No word on an actual time table for when these will become reality as “the engineers have to work together to integrate the technology, and then the [...]

Mar

14

DRM free music store for Blackberry’s

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March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Research in Motion has announced a partnership with Puretracks Inc to provide Blackberry users the ability to download MP3’s via wireless handsets using compressed DRM-free AAC/AAC+ file formats. Good news for all you people with opposable thumbs.
From the Press Release:
Toronto-based Puretracks, a leading North American digital music [...]

Mar

12

iPhone SDK disapointments pile up

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March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

While there are a lot great things about the Apple SDK many are starting to question its brutal terms of service, its blocking of VOIP and GSM connections as well as its blocking of Opera and Firefox. Some experts are wondering how this is legal considering how much trouble Microsoft got for having IE as [...]

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