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Subway riders in Boston can use cell phones, text-messaging and e-mail on hand-held devices, thanks to a wireless system installed in the tunnels at four of the busiest stations, reports The Boston Globe.
The service is currently being offered in Downtown Crossing, Government Center, State, and Park Street stations, and all the tunnels in between. Expansion [...]
There have often been times, while traveling for long, boring hours, that we’ve wished we had the means of downloading and watching popular videos on YouTube right in our mobile screen. For the most people, own largely 3gp-enabled phones, and the only way to watch videos on the fly is if the videos are pre-converted [...]
Alltel Corp. is unveiling a new feature that uses voice-recognition software to allow wireless phone customers to read their voicemail messages as text messages. Monthly fees for the Voice2TXT service start at $4.99, and users will still have the option to listen to the messages. “It’ll appeal to a broad customer base … people who [...]
Passengers could soon be using their mobile phones on planes flying through European airspace. The BBC reports. Mobile use is currently prohibited on planes, because there is evidence that they interfere with on-board communication and navigation systems.
The proposed system utilizes an on-board base station in the plane which communicates with passengers’ own handsets. The base [...]
Google’s mobile team seems to be keeping pretty busy these days. The company has released an updated version of Gmail Mobile, and Google Maps now works on phones running the Symbian operating system.
Not much more to say about the Symbian support, but Gmail Mobile 1.5 does seem to have a few features absent from version [...]
New reports suggest search giant Google is believed to be working on a mobile operating system and not a handset device as previously speculated. Engineers at the company have been working on a secret mobile project for two years and observers had until now believed the project involved a mobile handset, which some had dubbed [...]
You’ve known Mozilla had big plans for the mobile space for a while now, but - like us - you were a bit disappointed when Mozilla announced their first major Mobile offering back in August. When it comes down to it, Joey is basically just a web clipping service that lets you save web content [...]
It’s been a cruel, cruel summer without our beloved NFL football, and pre-season games don’t really cut it. Fortunately, kickoff is tomorrow, and we’ll all be able to get our fill of long punt returns, bone-crunching tackles, and (hopefully) more hilarious MasterCard commercials.
If, despite your best intentions to stay on the couch and catch all [...]
Showing off pictures on your mobile device just got a whole lot easier with Picasa Web Albums, and care of the innovative team at Google.
Google has just announced that they have launched the first version of Picasa Web Albums for mobile devices. When in the mobile Picasa, photo albums are tiled across your screen, clicking [...]
Microsoft is internally testing a new version of Windows Live Search that enables voice as well as written queries. But the installer file seems to have found its way out of Redmond.
You can either speak into your Windows Mobile microphone, or if you’ve got a model with a Bluetooth audio stack, you should be able [...]
Apple today announced that the iPhone will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.* In [...]
If you’re among the many people in the United States who either can’t use AT&T/Cingular or choose not to use the carrier’s services based on negative experiences, take heart - there still might be a way to use an iPhone without the company’s blessing. The iPhone ships in four weeks. And though Apple is officially [...]
The iPhone has been anticipated for a long time. A very long time. It’s finally coming out, and could have the potential to be better than we could have ever imagined with a surprise turn of events.
Apple’s Wordwide Developers Conference is today in San Francisco, and some exciting news has been rumored to be dropped [...]
Microsoft announced two Windows Mobile updates today. First, a Japanese version of Windows Mobile 6 will be available starting in June on devics from HTC, Sharp, and Toshiba.
The bigger news is that Office Mobile 2007 will be available as a free download in the third quarter of this year.
It doesn’t sound like there will be [...]
The wires are alight with news that Palm will be announcing a deal to sell a 25% stake to Elevation Partners. The private equity firm where Bono is a founding partner will shell out $325 million for the privilege of helping Palm reorganize. Jon Rubinstein, Apple’s retired head of hardware - yes, that hardware - [...]
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