Chaperone uses GPS to keep tabs on kids. Parents can log in and see current location and do more advanced functions like set home zones and automated monitoring.
Chaperone costs either $9.99 or $19.99 monthly depending on the tier of service. That price is per handset (tracking multiple children means paying separate charges).
]]>]]>While initial word that the iPhone's ship date may have been overly conservative came from a number of unproven sources, most citing information inside Cingular, more reliable sources with proven track records have come forward to confirm that there remains a very real possibility that the iPhone will ship earlier in the second quarter.
According to the article, everyone from college students to stay at home mothers have taken up the Pearl with a similar zeal that stock traders and lawyers were famous for (e.g. CrackBerry).
]]>"The Pearl has attracted a lot of people to BlackBerry who we would not have otherwise attracted in the retail setting in the past," says Mark Guibert, vice president of corporate marketing for Research in Motion, of Waterloo, Ontario. Unlike other BlackBerry devices, the Pearl has a built-in camera and multimedia player -- features that help increase its broad appeal. "We are seeing people who are buying the Pearl with personal use in mind as the primary use," he says.
M2 cards are exceedingly small, but not the smallest (that's microSD or what used to be called TransFlash).
M2 measures 0.59" (L) x 0.49" (W) x 0.05" (H), making it the second smallest flash memory media in the world, behind the microSD, which SanDisk pioneered.
Suggested U.S. retail pricing: 2GB - $119.99, 1GB - $54.99, 512MB - $44.99.
]]>Because the supported card is a PCMCIA type it will not work in the latest generation of Mac laptops. Those computers feature an ExpressCard slot which is an up and coming form factor that's incompatible with the wider PCMCIA connector.
]]>Palm paid Access $44 million for the license, which is a steal considering Access paid $324 million for PalmSource.
]]>Under terms of the agreement, ACCESS has granted Palm specific rights to modify the code base of Palm OS Garnet for use in its devices such as the Palm Treo smartphone family and the company's other handheld computers. The agreement also grants Palm the right to use Palm OS Garnet in whole or in part in any product from Palm and together with any other system technologies.
Marlow noted that ironically .mobi takes more key presses than .com, .net and .org. Of the most popular top level domains, .net is the shortest at 6 taps (.mobi is 11 taps!).
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]]>The company provides its information services for free in exchange for a small advertisement that each caller hears before completing the call. While it's not a mobile play per se, a high percentage of information calls are made on the go when it's harder to lookup things.
A young New Jersey based mother was the 100 millionth caller and won an all expense paid vacation to Puerto Rico.
]]>New in Opera Mini 3.0:
You can download Opera Mini for free
now. One of the major features of the software is that it uses a proxy server design so that much of the actual HTML and JavaScript processing is done on Opera's remote servers. That means it can work on much less powerful phones and also appears to load websites faster than other browsers because the information is sent in a compressed format from Opera to the mobile handset.
The feature list is shorter than the other handsets Nokia introduced today, but that's to be expected for an emerging markets phone. The notable feature that's not common in the segment is an integrated FM radio.
Nokia will begin shipping the 2626 in the first quarter of 2007 for an estimated 75 euros.
]]>]]>"We're not likely to see technologies like mobile WiMAX or indeed, anything else, really take off until the next decade," comments Sara Harris, Senior Industry Analyst at Strategy Analytics and author of this report. "However, HSPA and EV-DO will be more than acceptable for most users, giving them the speed and flexibility they want to use their fixed internet applications on the move"
The vast majority of Symbian devices are from Nokia, but many manufactures have shipped Symbian equipped phones. The list includes Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, BenQ and Siemens.
[via Engadget Mobile]
]]>"These kids are students, not prisoners," wrote another parent, whose daughter travels from their home in Brooklyn to school in Manhattan.
Many concerned parents want their children to carry cell phones for safety. In letters, some noted 9/11 and that cell phones provided key communication channels in a time of chaos.
]]>Features of the V325i include:
Verizon is selling the V325i now for $29.99 after contract and $50 in instant savings.
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