Articles tagged with: Wind and Personal

Nokia Adds Hotmail Support to Mobile Email Platform

Nokia has added windows Live (Hotmail) email support to its own Nokia Messaging platform. Nokia Messaging is currently free to download and set-up, and supports the world's most popular email accounts - windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail - and accounts from thousands of other email providers. The application enables access of up to 10 personal email accounts on a Nokia device, and through one single icon. more

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Charging Cellphones With Just a Wave of your Hand

.., like simple body movements, the beating of the heart or movement of the wind, into electricity, using zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires that conduct the electricity. The ZnO nanowires are piezoelectric - they generate an electric current when subjec more

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Turning Soldiers' Helmets into a Wireless Mesh Network

..identify the window that a rifle is firing through even when the rifle is completely inside the building, the technique preferred by trained snipers. These tests were performed with sensors in fixed locations. One of the problems with using a more

Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown

Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more

Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession

Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more

Acer Announces Plans for Four Smartphones.

Acer, the third largest vendor in the global PC market is, as widely touted last week, introducing a new line of smartphones. No prices or launch dates were provided.
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Gemalto Offering SIM-Based Windows Live Mobile IM to Argentineans

Gemalto has announced the successful implementation of Microsoft's Instant Messenger service built into its SIM cards, and will be available for the Argentinean marketplace through Personal's new SIM cards in the coming weeks. more

New CEO for Handango

Mobile software retailer, Handango hss announced the promotion of Alex Bloom from vice president of content and international to CEO and president, succeeding current CEO and president Bill Stone, effective from next month. more

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Motorola Unveils Mobile Phone Made Using Recycled Water Bottle Plastics

Motorola has shown off two new mobile phones - the MOTO W233 Renew, which is the world's first mobile phone made using plastics comprised of recycled water bottles, and MOTOSURF A3100 - a high-speed touch tablet with a fully customizable home screen. more

Location Ecosystem Still Looking for Sustainable Growth and Viable Business Model

.. services remain low, the more established product categories suffer from price erosion and dwindling margin levels as evidenced by the recent financial results of PND vendor TomTom. "The location industry remains largely undecided on preferre more

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