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Maybe because, as nutshells go, the convenience of seeing lotsa things in a single glance is just, well, convenient! So if you want to apply that convenience to something long and hard and full of fun, like the Internet, feel free to hit this.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Internet and also me in a parallel universe, was interviewed on stage at the Embassy of Finland in Washington recently. And among some pretty interesting things he discussed (aside from describing a photo of a squirrel with huge testicles, and cats!) was the fact of the unnecessaryness of the [...]

Forget fumbling with tiny cell phone keys.  A prototype of a new application allows cell phone users to write short notes in the air and send them automatically to an e-mail address.
This represents just one possible step toward allowing people to naturally merge the real world with the information power of the Internet. Travelers and [...]

Ogilvy Advertising has a new mobile application for Fanta that can be heard only by teenagers — made possible by using high-pitched frequencies that can be detected only by humans under 20s. The app, called Fanta Stealth Sound System, includes such exciting, totaly useful shit as wolf-whistles, warnings, pssts and sound tags for phrases like [...]

LG has partnered with Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures to create this solid 18-karat-gold “Iron Man” model of LG’s Shine series of phones.

LG Shine’s Iron Man cell phone

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most [...]

In today’s exceedingly helpful, We’re Sure You’ll Actually Do This kind of video, you’ll learn how to turn any garden variety cordless phone into something more awesome.

As Google posted the official SDK and documentation for its new Android mobile OS, it also cleverly dangles over $10 million in no-strings-attached money before the eyes of anyone who will develop Android apps. So if you’re interested in participating in the “Google Gold Rush,” here’s where you wanna be.
And because we know you live [...]

Before you forget, * and # buttons used to be the selling point.

{Western Electric ad, 1969}
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You got all wet and excited over the Google Phone, yet it turns out it’s not actually a phone but a mobile phone OS called Android. Basically, the wisdom behind it is to allow Google to distribute its mobile apps to as many devices as possible, so in the future it can control you right [...]

Here’s a great costume idea for the Halloween: cellphone! Hey, it has become so frightening, people run for their lives when they see one.

Astronauts bouncing around in space in their bulky gas-pressurized spacesuits are far from what sci-fi authors imagined. But Dava Newman is changing that by putting the sex back in “spacesexsuit.”
Newman, her colleague Jeff Hoffman, her students and a local design firm, Trotti and Associates, have been working on the project for about seven years. Their [...]

NTT DoCoMo’s D9041 cellphone detects shaking and tilting, redefining playing games on a mobile phone by allowing the user to play games like the Wii.
Instead of punching a keypad, users can move the handset like a tennis racket or fishing pole in easy-to-play games, similar to those on Nintendo Co.’s popular Wii.
In the “Tokyo Highway [...]

A peak at a slide show presentation during a recent Motorola conference.

via REDDIT

Practically everybody in this country has a cellular phone. A huge percentage just use them for text messaging. A huge percentage of that huge percentage use it to find casual sex on TV text chats. I’m not guilty of that but I’m guilty of this.
A new study commissioned by the indoor cellphone booster firm Wi-Ex, [...]

Well, that’s what the third GSM Congress in Barcelona have in mind. Even though the plan is to enable health workers in Africa use their mobile phones to ”upload critical information on the disease into a centralized database“, the idea of combating the dreaded disease is somewhat inutile, if not weak. Or vague, even. 
This $10-million-project may be able to keep track of the [...]

The stuff of some of Nokia’s nightmares has just come out: some smartass actually producing a mobile phone that not only almost mirrors the advanced features of Nokia’s sleek phones, but also comes with a name that seems to send the heartwarming message, “Up yours!”
It’s Nokir (model E828G pictured here), and given its features, it’s [...]