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Articles tagged with: Instant Messaging and Tim
'Sleep talking' PCs save energy and money
Personal computers may soon save large amounts of energy by "sleep talking." Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as "sleep talking." Normally PCs can be in either awake mode - where they consume power even if they are not being used, or in a low power sleep mode - where they save substantial power but are essentially inactive and unresponsive to network traffic. The new sleep talking state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode. more
Related Tags: microsoft, uc-san-diego, voip, flash-memory, , ovi, personal, virus, memory, operating-system, presence, flash
Communicating with more than words
ICT is all about communication but it has never provided the semantic richness offered by the non-verbal cues that typically pepper face-to-face conversation. Thanks to European researchers, that is about to change. more
Related Tags: , sms, eu, twitter, rsa, privacy, ict, edge, ovi, iden, vas, telecom-italia, helsinki, partner
Mobile Internet, multimedia and mapping capture 40% of smartphone face time
Hannu Verkasalo, who has the public examination of his doctoral dissertation at Helsinki University of Technology on April 17th, says that "the usage of new smartphone applications, including the mobile Internet, games, multimedia and map applications, has been increasing among smartphone users and reaches already 40% of total face time". However, most of the usage is still based on voice and text messaging. more
Related Tags: , mms, mobile-email, smartphone, text-messaging, ict, smartphones, mobile-internet, helsinki, Finland
Survey finds smartphones transforming mobile lifestyles of college students
Once reserved for busy business executives, smartphones are now being incorporated into the mobile lifestyle of college students, says new research from Ball State University. A recent survey of about 300 college students found that 27 percent own a smartphone as compared to the national average of 19 percent for working adults. more
Related Tags: sim, smartphone, eu, text-messaging, edge, smartphones, personal, ims, smart, USA
Samsung Shows Off Touch Screen WiMAX Phone for the US Market
Samsung Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of its WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the Samsung Mondi. The touch screen Mondi, which takes its name from the Latin word for "world," is designed for use with the Clearwire WiMAX network. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, windows-mobile, microsoft, seattle, atlanta, mms, mobile-email, samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, bluetooth, clearwire, gps, wind, ovi, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, palm, mobile-internet, opera, windows, 4g, USA
Starent Networks Introduces Service Convergence Platform
Starent Networks has announced its XT30 Service Convergence Platform allowing operators to tap into existing mobile core networks in order to deploy new multimedia services on next generation Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. This platform provides innovative voice and messaging solutions that bridge devices between legacy and next generation networks, and supports applications such as converged VoIP, Femtocells, messaging and presence solutions. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, voip, starent-networks, core-network, ovi, iden, fixed-mobile-convergence, 3gpp2, presence, 4g
Txt Crimes, Sex Crimes and Murder - The Science of Forensic Linguistics
Text and instant messaging may soon cease to be an anonymous method of communication as advances in forensic linguistic research make it possible to identify the sender and also predict the gender and age of the author with some degree of success. more
Related Tags: sms, text-messaging, rsa, o2, text-messages, police, text-message, UK