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Deutsche BA, a smaller German airline, has started a new service that allows flyers to check in via MMS. The mechanism is simple; approximately three hours before a passenger is scheduled for a flight, the airline will send a barcode...
According to Moscow based Kaspersky Labs, a new Trojan horse that is able to infect almost any mobile phone or PDA is in the wild. The Trojan called "RedBrowser" targets traditional mobile phones running Java as well as the newer...
A research group, Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association (MARA), has found the first mobile phone to PC virus. Thankfully, it appears that the virus was sent directly to them instead of being found in the wild. The virus included the following...
Cell phones often get the rap as being facilitators of bad manners in public, but the San Jose Museum of Art has the novel idea of getting it's patrons to listen instead of talk. During a current exibit, "Visual Politics:...
Cornice’s is making two notable announcements at 3GSM: The Cornice Dragon Series Micro Hard Drive will be launching in 8- and 10-gigabyte capacities. Cornice Hard Drives will be inside the Samsung i300 Mobile Smartphone [via Cornice]...
Today at the DEMO 06 conference in Phoenix, AZ new startup called Sharpcast is promising to seamlessly connect your computer, cell phone, and web photo albums together. Sharpcast promises "instantaneous backup of mobile phone pictures, speedy catalog recovery and...
Dec 08 2003 - 03:17 PM ET | Miscellaneous
According to a recent piece on Slate, personal cell phone jammers in the US will become more common place as more Americans become fed up with the constant jabbering. Jammers are legal to purchase, but illegal to use. We mentioned...
Dec 04 2003 - 08:55 AM ET | Miscellaneous
Anxiety over mobile phones, especially over camera phones is growing. At least one city wants to go as far as banning phones in its parks. Washington D.C. is looking to ban phones while driving, a move similar to what other...
Dec 02 2003 - 04:24 PM ET | Miscellaneous
The News Factor Network has posted some tips to help keep your cell phone bill down. Nothing that striking, but it brings some good points: Stick to a one year contract Expect taxes to be 15-20% on top of your...
Nov 18 2003 - 03:39 PM ET | Miscellaneous
A massive study that will try to identify the potential risks of cell phone usage has been funded by the US government. For the past 10 years, there have been concerns that cell phones can foster the development of brain...
