A new report has found that the average teen sends & receives a massive 80 text messages a day, with some kids even losing sleep and pushing their thumbs to the max to keep up with endless SMS threads. Could this be a worrisome health threat?
The New York Times refers to a Nielsen study that [...]
Only one day after unveiling three new cheap, entry-level phones, Nokia has now announced a more advanced handset – the Nokia 6600i slide.
If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Nokia has launched, about a year ago, the 6600 slide.
The difference between the 6600 slide and 6600i slide is that the new phone features a 5MP [...]
Android - compact, flexible, stable, open source and free. At the Embedded Systems Expo in Tokyo this week Fujitsu showcased a digital photo frame with Android embedded in its PCB. The prototype supports the Digital Living Network Alliance standard which means it can hook into any DLNA-compliant network using Wi-Fi while the local processing power [...]
Google’s downtime on Thursday morning caused a 5% drop in Internet traffic, showing clearly how much people and websites depend on the service.
Arbor Networks chief scientist Craig Labovitz observed in a blog post that failures happen. Says Craig, “[B]ut if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet [...]
Director of Community Development at Mozilla, Asa Dotzler, predicted this in one of his blog posts after analyzing browser usage data since when Firefox was first released in 2004.
The data collected shows a slow but steady decline in IE’s market share from just over 90% back in 2004 to just under 70% in 2009 while [...]
T-Mobile Germany seems unsure exactly what their VoIP strategy is and how to deal with it. The network is to launch the flagship Nokia N97 in summer, but the version it provides to T-Mobile won’t have Skype included in the list of apps, even though Nokia and Skype have an agreement stating that every Nokia [...]
According to various reliable sources, Verizon Wireless will start offering a Hewlett-Packard netbook for $200 to customers who sign up for a 2-year data plan.
Verizon on stated the HP Mini 1151NR would be available through its stores, and that the $200 price tag includes a $50 mail-in rebate, while the PC will be available from [...]
For the duration of the summer holidays, Vodafone customers will be able to send text messages and picture messages as well as make phone calls from overseas destinations for the same price as they would pay in the UK.
The offer lastst from June 1 until the end of August, and pay as you go & [...]
British Telecom (BT) will slash 15,000 more jobs, an indication of bad times ahead for BT staff according to the Communications Workers Union of the UK. BT this week stated that eyes laying off 15,000 staff after a reported annual loss of £134m. Around 15,000 jobs have already been slashed this year, which was 5000 [...]
The Palm Pre could be a game-changer as it goes face-to-face with phones like the iPhone and the HTC’s and the BlackBerries.
The Palm Pre’s official launch date is as yet unconfirmed, and from what we can see has some features that will strike fear into the hearts of the average smartphone. Here are a fewfeatures [...]