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[25 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Pope Benedict Caught In Act: Thanks To Cell Phone Cameras

Thanks to cell phone cameras the event which raised eyebrows all around the world has been fully captured and documented. The woman who dragged the Pope to ground also shouted some words. The words shouted are not clear and may never be known as the secret service of Italy is already hiding the real reason of attack on Mr. Berlusconi few days back.
The young woman vaulted the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and threw herself at the pope as …

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[23 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kindle Hacked: Now Read Kindle Books On Any Ebook Reader

The hacker, Labba with the help of his programmers friends have successfully  broken the copyright protection or DRM of Amazon’s ebook reader Kindle. This will allow the readers to extract the text of Amazon’s AZW files into a PDF for viewing on any other ebook reader.
The hack is the latest to show the worthlessness of digital rights management schemes. It took the hackers only nine days to strip the DRM although there is no formal piece of software for …

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[22 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Cell Phones To Carry Warnings: Cell Phones May Cause Cancer

Cell phones statutorily to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer. Although there is no consensus among scientists that cell phones are causing cancer and the industry disputes the claim.
Andrea Boland, Democrat House Representative for Maine believes that nearly one million cell phone users in the state should know what the hazards are real as several studies now show that the radiation emitted by cell phones does pose a cancer risk.
The radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic radiation emitted by …

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[21 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Reverse Phone Number Lookup Services: Accurate But Not Free

Reverse cellphone lookup is an astounding and fairly new concept that helps you to gather out host of information on a particular cell phone number.
Reverse cellphone lookup gives you the name, current address, household members, and background of the owner of the phone number after entering any 10 digit phone number with a computer and internet connection. Also, if you are in possession of a cell phone number from old days, but have no trace of detail on it, …

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[15 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Google Phone Nexus One Unlocked Will Not Work On Verizon or Sprint

Google Nexus One is an attempt to copy the Apple’s strategy of controlling everything from hardware, software and even supply management. The various news sites have confirmed that Google had handed out prototypes to employees on Friday.
Google Phone Nexus One is a device that combines innovative hardware from HTC with software that runs on Android 2.0. As reported the Google Nexus One is a GSM phone, which means it’ll work on AT&T and T-Mobile but not Verizon or Sprint. …

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[11 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Google Passing Your Private Data To U.S Government: Confirmed By The Chief

Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a CNBC interview has confirmed that he and his company comes under United States Patriot Act and is providing your private surfing data to the U.S authorities.
Eric Schmidt told CNBC Anchor Maria Bartiromo, on the cable network’s recent special “Inside the Mind of Google,” that people who have something to hide shouldn’t be doing things online that might potentially expose them if law enforcement seeks access to their search histories.
By turning the argument …

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[17 Nov 2009 | One Comment | ]
Texting While Driving: 5870 Died And 515000 Injured Attributed To Distracted Driving

According to a study by the Pew Research Center after surveying 800 teens in 4 US cities over the summer of 2009, 34 percent of teens aged 16 to 17 have texted while driving.
Amanda Lenhart, co-author of the PEW study, said, “Many teens understand the risks of texting behind the wheel, but the desire to stay connected is so strong for teens and their parents that safety sometimes takes a back seat to staying in touch with friends …

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[28 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
AT&T On Defensive And Scared Of Savage’s Twitter Army

Mythbusters Adam Savage got an $11000 bill from AT&T for web surfing while he was on a trip to canada and now he has decided to fight this bill out using social media site Twitter. Savage and his wife were in Montreal for a five-day vacation earlier this month. Not liking that disconnected feeling, he used a mobile modem — a thumb-sized device that plugs into a USB port on a laptop — from his U.S.-based AT&T carrier to …

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[24 Jun 2009 | One Comment | ]
Top Five Cell Phone Applications Ideas June 2009

1) ScanLife: A New York firm Scanbuy is working on bar codes type square black-and-white patches called EZcodes and the idea works like this: Point your camera phone at, say, an ad for running shoes, and your phone’s screen will quickly show you a Web site with specs and user reviews. Point the phone at the code on a kid’s shirt, and you’re directed straight to his or her Facebook page. “We’ve been at it for a while,” said …

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[6 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

An open Linux-based mobile phone company OpenMoko is struggling and will not be able to deliver its next generation handset this year.
In an official statement by Steve Mosher, VP Marketing at Openmoko, that was released after an announcement by Openmoko CEO Sean Moss-Pulz at the OpenExpo in Bern, Switzerland, Openmoko was forced to make some tough choices. It came to the conclusion that it could only achieve two of the following three goals: continuing to support its Neo FreeRunner …