Engadget's top posts, 2008 (Thursday 01st of January 2009 04:59:00 AM)
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Well, the year has come and gone, and with it, our 365 -- or in this case,
366 -- days of posting. We've seen some pretty amazing stuff, gotten to play ...
(more)Ericsson and Intel Offer Remote Notebook Lockdown (Friday 12th of December 2008 10:15:01 AM)
MojoKid writes "Ericsson and Intel have announced that they are collaborating on a way to keep
your laptop's topics safe when your laptop goes MIA. Using Intel's Anti-Theft internet banking
components — PC ward (Intel AT-p) and Ericsson's Mobile ...
(more)How To Find a Mobile Games Publisher? (Friday 21st of November 2008 10:00:01 AM)
N01 writes "In the last few months of my spare time, I've been implementing an abstract setup
board game (that I invented) along with a decent AI. The game resembles TwixT in that it is
also a connection game, and could be played without the ...
(more)VMWare Promises Multiple OSs On One Cellphone (Monday 10th of November 2008 09:30:01 PM)
Superglaze writes to tell us that VMWare has announced a large effort behind their Mobile
Virtualization Platform, promising the achievability of combine general expenses systems on
mobile devices. "The company described MVP as a "thin layer of software" ...
(more)Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? (Friday 24th of October 2008 05:45:05 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Laura Holson writes in the NY Times that she 'wandered down to the
T-Mobile store at Ninth Ave. and 43rd St. in New York City to see what kind of crowds —
if any — were lining up to buy the new ...
(more)Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK (Monday 20th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)
David Gerard points out a Times Online story that says: "Everyone [in the UK] who buys a mobile
call up will be forced to file their identity on a subject database under powers-that-be* plans
to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. Phone ...
(more)Full Review of the T-Mobile G1 Android Device (Thursday 16th of October 2008 09:45:02 PM)
Palmsolo writes "Want to see the biggest and most in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1 Google
Android device from a person who has been using it for a week? Check out over 260 photos and 5
videos of the device and just about every screen ...
(more)Free Wireless Band Gets FCC OK (Tuesday 14th of October 2008 07:30:01 PM)
Narramissic writes "Last month the FCC conducted tests to bound whether mobile devices using a
new US radio band (2,155 to 2,175 MHz) with free car call up service would cause
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(more)UN communications chief predicts four billion mobile phone subs by year's end (Saturday 27th of September 2008 10:02:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones
No need to adjust your set -- the United Nations communications chief
has boldly predicted that half of planet Earth's dwellers will be hooked on some sort of mobile
phone before 2009 dawns. Granted, the numbers he's talking about ...
(more)FCC Aims To End Debate With Wireless Tests (Saturday 06th of September 2008 02:00:01 AM)
Narramissic writes "Engineers from T-Mobile, AT&T, M2Z Networks, Nokia, Metro PCS, CTIA and XM
Sirius have convened at a Boeing facility in Seattle this to watch as the FCC performs tests it
hopes will quiet debate over a measure electromagnetic spectrum ...
(more)China Practically Unreachable By Western SMS? (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)
Ainsy writes "A friend of mine of late began a placement as an English pronunciation teacher in
China. She has picked up a pay-as-you go sim for use over there, only to unmask
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(more)Web Browser Wars Go Mobile (Monday 21st of July 2008 08:45:02 PM)
Alphadogg writes "A new generation of mobile Web browsers is finally making the Web a reality
on pda devices. The latest example is last week's beta launch of Opera Mobile 9.5, a native Web
browser for high-end smartphones. It's an evolutionary release ...
(more)It's Not Just O2 Leaking MMS Messages (Monday 21st of July 2008 08:45:02 PM)
Wiedzmin writes "A newly publicized issue with UK's O2 leaking private MMS to the tip
superhighway by making them utilizable and searchable in Google has gained a lot of impulse and
forced the company to hastily fix the problem. However a quick word* ...
(more)How many have purchase foreflight mobile for $69 ? (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:05:25 AM)
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(more)Doubts Over Intel's WiMAX Service Pricing Claim (Saturday 21st of June 2008 09:00:06 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "An Intel manager has suggested in a blog post that WiMAX could lead to
massive savings on broadband Internet, mobile voice, and mobile data service prices. His post
lists a WiMAX-based package of casework including home broadband, mobile ...
(more)T-Mobile Sues Starbucks Over Free Wi-Fi Deal (Sunday 08th of June 2008 09:40:33 PM)
Glenn Fleishman writes "T-Mobile sent me the text of a lawsuit they filed yesteryear against
Starbucks. The telecom firm alleges that Starbucks didn't involve it in any discussions to
launch their free loyalty program Wi-Fi service this week with AT&T. ...
(more)Microsoft Study Says Repetitive Strain Injury Costs $600m (Thursday 05th of June 2008 06:25:46 PM)
4roddas writes "Work-related RSI cases are at an all-time high and the cost to businesses is
spiraling, new Microsoft fishing expedition* reveals. Repetitive strain injury cases have
soared by over 30 percent in the last year, costing businesses over ...
(more)RISC Vs. CISC In Mobile Computing (Tuesday 20th of May 2008 01:53:43 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "For the processor geeks here, Jon Stokes has an cerebration article up at
Ars Technica analyzing RISC vs. CISC in mobile phones (Wikipedia on Reduced Instruction Set
televisions and Complex Instruction Set Computers). He wraps it up ...
(more)Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation (Saturday 17th of May 2008 12:30:03 AM)
An nameless reader brings news that Verizon adherent pick up* has announced plans to use a
Linux-based os/2 scaffolding for phones on its network. Verizon is the first US mobile carrier
to join the Linux Mobile Foundation, the goal of which is to "collaboratively ...
(more)Microsoft Accepts Flash For Windows Mobile (Tuesday 18th of March 2008 10:00:02 PM)
Ian Lamont writes "Despite Microsoft's aim to take on Adobe Flash with Silverlight, the company
has decided to support Flash on Windows Mobile devices. Microsoft has also licensed the Adobe
Reader LE software, so owners of Windows Mobile devices will ...
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(more)Intel Researchers Consider Ray-Tracing for Mobile Devices (Sunday 02nd of March 2008 07:30:03 PM)
An pseudonymous reader points out an Intel blog discussing the liability of Ray-Tracing on
mobile hardware. The required processing power is reduced enough by the lower resolution on
these devices that they could realistically run Ray-Traced games. We've ...
(more)Cellphones to Monitor Highway Traffic (Sunday 03rd of February 2008 11:45:03 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "On February 8, 2008, about 100 UC Berkeley students will participate
in the Mobile Century experiment, using GPS mobile phones as traffic sensors. During the whole
day, these students carrying the GPS-equipped Nokia N95 will ...
(more)Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later (Saturday 26th of January 2008 06:15:04 AM)
This week the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a surprisingly (although I guess it
shouldn't be) broad patent for a "mobile entertainment and communication device". Upon closer
inspection you may notice that it pretty much outlines the ubiquitous ...
(more)BrightShare Presents Lucrative Mobile Casino Affiliate Opportunities (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) (Monday 21st of January 2008 08:34:00 AM)
BrightShare, a leading associate network in the intermedia casino market, has happily
microelectronics the SpinShare mobile casino branch program into its offering. The move opens
up tremendous opportunities for BrightShare's partner partners, as trade ...
(more)Google Maps GPS Simulator (Thursday 29th of November 2007 04:15:06 PM)
Garbletext writes "A new version of Google Maps introduced this week includes a beta feature
dubbed My Location that was designed to simulate the GPS experience on mobile phones and
personal computer devices that do not include GPS hardware, like Apple's ...
(more)Ballmer Calls Android a "Press Release" (Thursday 08th of November 2007 08:00:05 PM)
Bergkamp10 writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to shoot down Google's new mobile platform
at a press think-in* in Tokyo. Ballmer called Android a mere 'press release' at present, and
said the mobile platform market is 'Microsoft's world.' Ballmer ...
(more)Symbian Blasts Google's Phone Initiative (Wednesday 07th of November 2007 07:00:03 PM)
Nowhere.elysium writes "Symbian has suggested that Google is not experienced enough or capable
of fully third world nation a workable mobile platform. Symbian's vice president, John Forsyth
inferred that Google's interest in the field will also wane due ...
(more)Google's Open Source Mobile Platform (Tuesday 06th of November 2007 04:45:05 PM)
As expected, today Google took the wraps off of the gPhone (as the media have for months been
referring to the rumored project). Google is "leading a broad monopoly alliance to transform
mobile phones into powerful mobile computers," and will be licensing ...
(more)The Man Behind the Google Phone (Sunday 04th of November 2007 02:15:03 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The New York Times is running a story about Andy Rubin, Google's habitant
gadget guru, and one of the primary architects of the gPhone. You won't find any new technical
details about the gPhone in the story, (Google is contraception ...
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