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textually.org - 6 hours ago
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Dynamics Controls has integrated an iPhone with its
power wheelchair electronics - enabling power wheelchair users to
enjoy all the benefits of an iPhone or iPod touch. The solution connects a user's iPhone or iPod touch to the wheelchair system ...
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Power wheelchair electronics displayed on iPhones
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Earlier this month, Twitter rolled out a Spanish language version of its service. This was the first language to gain native support beyond English and Japanese. Today, it's announcing French support as well.
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Musical twitterers have found a way to condense entire compositions to fit in single, 140-character tweets. New Scientist reports.
The trend started earlier this year when Dan Stowell , a composer and computer scientist at Queen Mary, University of London, encoded the sound of waves ...
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Most of us just can't live without a cell phone and we wonder how we managed all those years without one.
But according to The Houston Chronicle , a small group of die hard folks are surviving just fine without what some describe as a high-tech digital leash.
Although the number of ...
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Money transfers and payments over mobile phones will be among the top 10 most important mobile applications by 2012, market research company Gartner said on Wednesday, reports PC World .
Mobile money transfers top the list, beating out location-based services, search and browsing.
"It's a ...
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Conde Nast released a brand-new iPhone app Wednesday in conjunction with GQ's Men of the Year issue that provides readers with a replica of the magazine on their iPhone or iPod touch. New York Daily News reports.
But its more than just a replica: You can click on a product and be taken ...
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In an ambitious new project, the BBC World Service Trust is harnessing the latest communications technology to provide English language learning for over 50 million mobile users in Bangladesh.
The first of its kind in the world, this project will provide high quality English learning tools ...
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Spotted on Apple iPhone School , AT&T;'s new commercial targeting targets Verizon.
It's a reply to the Verizon's ads that compared coverage between the two networks.
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textually.org - 25 hours ago
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Spotted on Gizmodo , a new iPhone app
called Blower that uses its speaker to blow air.
No peripherals. No attachments. Check the video for yourself. The developers say that you can use it to "blow out candles, herbs, and refresh your skin ...
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App lets your iPhone blow out candles
PCMag launched a mobile version of our online Tech Encyclopedia , which give users quick access to more than 25,000 tech terms.
In their own words: PCMag has, in collaboration with Computer Language Company, launched its inaugural iPhone app, a mobile version of its popular online Tech ...
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Thieves have made off with millions of dollars worth of iPhones in a daring heist from a Belgian warehouse. The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The thieves climbed a fire ladder to the roof of the warehouse, Belgium's De Standaard said.
They then entered the building through a hole cut ...
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The GSM Association announced recently at the Mobile Asia Congress the launch of Mobile's Green Manifesto , which has been developed in collaboration with The Climate Group .
This manifesto sets out how the mobile industry plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions per connection, and ...
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Adweek on why mobile advertising still has some way to go. The year of mobile has been predicted virtually annually for the past decade. There is compelling evidence that this time it's different. Overall, there are now more mobile phones...
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Art of the iPhone has published a (very useful) Guide to iPhone GPS Navigation Apps, including their expert opinion on which two are the best: Navigon MobileNavigator and MotionX GPS Drive .
In their own words:
The App Store is cluttered with iPhone GPS apps, and sorting through them is ...
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According to New Scientist , cellphones could soon be used to fight noise pollution.
In a bid to make cities quieter, the European Union requires member states to create noise maps of their urban areas once every five years. Rather than deploying costly sensors all over a city, the ...
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A new tool to assist Mexican migrant workers safely cross over the border into the United States has been developed by Ricardo Dominguez of the University of California in San Diego, reports Viceland via PSFK .
Dominguez, an activist/hacker and performance artist cobbled together a cheap ...
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T-Mobile UK has admitted that some of its staff may have sold customer details to a rival network. Cellular News reports.
UK's Information Commissioner's Office ( ICO ) has investigated and it appears that the information has been sold on to several brokers and that substantial amounts of ...
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AdMob announced Tuesday that it will deliver interactive video ads to the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The ads, set to run this week, will let iPhone users surf the Web and check out other videos while the video ad is playing.
... The video ads will automatically pop up as iPhone users ...
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Patrick Traynor of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his colleagues worry that hackers may have cellphone networks in their sights. New Scientist reports.
DENIAL-of-services (DoS) attacks are a common tactic used by "black hats" intent on bringing down a high-profile ...
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According to AppleInsider , Apple plans to release a new "Concierge" application for the iPhone and iPod touch that will allow customers to schedule appointments at retail stores. Makes perfect sense.
