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Projectors in phones coming soon
Great, just as kids in the backs of buses playing their beats on crap phone speakers was starting to get a little passe, a mobile phone developer in Japan has announced that it is developing a phone that comes with a built-in projector - predicted to be released in about three years' time.
I don't really get the point of it.
Think I'll have to start bringing an eye mask as well as earplugs on my daily commute. Great, just as kids in the backs of buses playing their beats on crap phone speakers was starting to get a little passe, a mobile phon... more -
How to slow telemarketing calls
Canadians fed up with unsolicited telemarketers can register starting Tuesday on a national do not call list. To register call 1-866-580-3625 or visit www.dncl.gc.ca. Canadians fed up with unsolicited telemarketers can register starting Tuesday on a national do not call list. To register call 1-866-5... more
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Telephone bill fees illegal says judge
Bell ExpressVu's charge to customers who fail to pay their monthly bill on time is illegal, an Ontario judge has ruled in a class-action lawsuit that throws into disarray the common corporate practice of charging consumers late fees. Bell ExpressVu's charge to customers who fail to pay their monthly bill on time is illegal, an Ontario judge has ruled in a class... more
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LG Lotus By Christian Siriano
LG Electronics has unveiled LG Lotus ,and i am pretty sure the cell phone will catch your eye.LG Lotus is the result of a collaboration with fashion designer Christian Siriano.The LG Lotus is comes with a full QWERTY keyboard and a one-click, customizable user interface. This feature allows users seamless access to Sprint Navigation, Sprint TV, email, texting as well as Web access. Weighing just 3.7 ounces and measuring 3.3 by 2.4 by 0.7 inch, the LG Lotus also provides access to the Sprint Music Store. LG Electronics has unveiled LG Lotus ,and i am pretty sure the cell phone will catch your eye.LG Lotus is the result of a collaboratio... more
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United Kingdom Talk Saturday 13th September 2008
Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show. Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
News on Joy.
Testing.
Why do we go abroad ?
Pet food advice.
Turning the machine on.
Forums.
Things discovered in inhumane ways.
My eye is observing.
Not answering the phone.
Are you of advanced years ? What did you give your pets before pet food became available ?
Mad scientists.
Broken down ? Ross will help you.
Thanks to Shaun.
A harness.
Jimmy's doing well at his new school.
We are not made to eat chemicals.
James Dean is at the top of the list if you Google matinee show.
Paying the vet.
I am a hobosexual.
No elevator for Suko.
A new gadget.
Hospital phones.
Taking on too many jobs again.
A very big experiment.
Ear wax.
Take the work while it's there.
Where's the home made marmalade gone ?
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
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United Kingdom Talk Thursday 11th September 2008
Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
Joy's daughter, Lin, emails the show.
Use them once.
To tie or not to tie.
Learn to cook.
Dr Karl on Triple J.
Unwanted joke texts.
Ross's podcast - http://rosspatzeltradioshow.mypodcast.com/
A positive outcome.
Feet.
Getting a mortgage.
Do your fluids.
What is earwax for ?
Jobs in Australia.
Witheld numbers.
Where does all the money suddenly come from ?
Animal news.
Neighbours.
Extra bone.
Set your own limit.
Headaches.
The wrong arm.
Waiting lists.
Ready made meals.
A new bit of wire.
A permanent marker.
The NHS.
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
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Microsoft to develop Zune phone?
Hot on the heels of the iPhone, ElectricPig suggests that Microsoft might be coming up with a Zune phone. Now I haven't seen pictures of the latest Zune MP3 players for a while, but isn't it looking increasingly like the iPod..? Well, I guess the iPhone needs some more solid competition in the market, but would Microsoft really be able to deliver that? Hot on the heels of the iPhone, ElectricPig suggests that Microsoft might be coming up with a Zune phone. Now I haven't seen pic... more
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World's Smallest Camera Phone
Well well, it may look like a novelty phone-shaped sweets container but this little pink thing is in fact (it claims) the world's smallest camera phone.
The Xun Chi 138 is about the size of an AA battery but packs quite a bit of kit, with a 1.3 megapixel camera with video function (though at 176x144 pixels the image is probably more like an icon), a touch screen with hand-writing recognition, an MP3 player and GPRS features.
Though I'm not sure if 'small is beautiful' holds up in this case, it's still a pretty neat gizmo - that's if you wouldn't lose immediately. Well well, it may look like a novelty phone-shaped sweets container but this little pink thing is in fact (it claims) the world's... more -
United Kingdom Talk Saturday 6th September 2008
Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show. Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
Car trouble.
Are you missing out on something ?
More cat news.
Cooking for your pets.
Sat Navs.
Mull of Kintyre cheese.
Alternative routes.
An economical driver.
What's your number ?
How is your brain wired ?
Ear spray.
A bargain at $250
Like a duck to water.
Feeling lumpy.
Southfork or not ?
"A bit of a paunch" ?
That gorgeous bloke.
A jacket that lights up.
You try and be friendly.
Atlases.
My new mobile phone.
My nieces dog is being operated on.
Collecting a number.
"Ping".
A bowl of Tomato soup.
No more leaking.
Vet people are nice.
Rope.
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
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you, your phone and your health
Uganda's rising HIV prevalence is forcing policy makers to look for inventive ways of educating people about the virus. Their latest tool is mobile phone technology, whose rapid growth has provided an avenue that could potentially reach millions with messages. Text to Change (TTC) , an NGO that uses a bulk short message service (SMS) platform for HIV/AIDS education, recently partnered with the AIDS Information Centre in Uganda (AIC) and Celtel, a local mobile phone network, to pilot a project in western Uganda aimed at communicating knowledge about the disease and encouraging subscribers to volunteer for HIV testing. Uganda's rising HIV prevalence is forcing policy makers to look for inventive ways of educating people about the virus. Their lat... more
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Misleading iPhone TV ads banned
I used to love Apple and everything it stood for, but the release of the iPhone has me thinking it might be getting a bit too big for its boots.
Apple built its reputation on doing its best for the consumer - unlike Microsoft - yet the iPhone 3G has completely polarised opinion, with the majority of people I know here in Australia extremely disatisfied with the gadget.
You can't stream video on it, unlocking it is a pain in the arse, you can do this, you can't do that - the list of gripes is ever growing. And now, it appears the advertising behind it is taking us for a ride, too.
Please, Apple, don't slip further. Make sure the iPhone 4G is as brilliant as many of the other things you've done in the past so well. I used to love Apple and everything it stood for, but the release of the iPhone has me thinking it might be getting a bit too big for ... more -
Samsung Omnia (i900) unboxing
iPhones have nothing on this unboxing.
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Safe Sex Ringtone In India
"There are many ways to let people know you’re into having safe sex. The easiest being to verbalize your needs: “I will not sleep with you unless you use a condom.” If you lived in India, you could always let your phone tell people for you. A cell phone ring tone was launched August 8 and features a singer chanting the word “condom” 50 times. So far it has been downloaded 60,000 times. “A ring tone is a very public thing,” said Yvonne MacPherson, the country director of BBC World Service Trust India. “It’s a way to show you are a condom user and you don’t have any issues with it.”
LOL! There are some funny things at the link. "There are many ways to let people know you’re into having safe sex. The easiest being to verbalize your needs: “I will not sleep... more -
Curse Words ( David Spates & Xelander )
This is a collaboration video by David Spates and Xelander Thomas in London. David Saw Xelander's video "Letter's=Words" and thought it was funny so he got in contact with Xelander to collab and here it is. Check out some of David's other videos on his page like "Just Say No (Part 2)" "Talking With Dave#12 - 420 pound 8 year old"," "The First Black Homosexual", and many others with more to come! Don't forget to add me as a friend and subscribe. :-)
Also if you have a youtube, Myspace, Facebook, or tagged account, please add me there too. Just search for my name. David Spates :-) This is a collaboration video by David Spates and Xelander Thomas in London. David Saw Xelander's video "Letter's=Words... more -
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Have your voice blasted into the luscious lands of Norway.
Telemegaphone Dale is a 23-foot-tall wind-powered loudspeaker sculpture that picks up incoming calls and projects them into the nearby surroundings. Have your voice blasted into the luscious lands of Norway. ... more -
Touch tone phone symphony
Who needs instruments, when you've got phones!
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Where do all the old phones go...
...anyone know where this is?
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Stylish Casio G’zOne W62CA Phone
The Casio G’zOne W62CA has been unveiled with KDDI Summer 2008 collection. It will never fail to stupefy anyone because of its ruggedly handsome design, 2.7 inches IPS LCD, Calorie Counter, microSD external memory, 197 million pixels camera with auto focus.The most compelling feature is that G’zOne was designed to be waterproof and impact resistant gizmo.The release of G’zOne W62CA could increase Casio share on highly competitive mobile phone market in Japan. The Casio G’zOne W62CA has been unveiled with KDDI Summer 2008 collection. It will never fail to stupefy anyone because of its ruggedl... more
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MobiFrance Concept Phone is an Eiffel Tower
"MobiFrance has recently partnered up with Sony Ericsson to develop a concept cell called the French Luxury (FL).To commemorate the French Independence Day, they came up with this design that pretty much speaks for itself. The "Sony Ericsson FL" has a camera and a 7.2Megapixels touchscreen OLED 4 inches. It may trôner standing on your desk as a multimedia station (with its powerful speaker on the side) and will be used for your video (with the function integrated webcam). In addition to ring and vibrate, mobile FL flickers each receiving a call through diodes integrated.Pricing and availability not disclosed. "MobiFrance has recently partnered up with Sony Ericsson to develop a concept cell called the French Luxury (FL).To commemorate t... more
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Senate passes no-warrant wiretapping bill. Kiss your rights good bye
The Senate Wednesday approved a bill to put new rules in place for intelligence agency eavesdropping on suspected terrorists.
Communication technologies like mobile phones have made the 1978 FISA bill out of date, supporters say.
The bill also effectively protects telephone companies from being sued for cooperating with a government surveillance program launched in the wake of the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. The White House pushed hard for the provision, with a threat to veto the bill if it did not contain protection for phone companies.
The vote was 69-28, with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois voting in favor. Republican candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona was not present for the vote.
President Bush said Wednesday afternoon he will sign the bill, calling it "vital" and "long overdue." Watch Bush praise the new FISA bill »
The bill, formally known as the FISA Amendments Act, updates the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It will:
Require the secret court set up to oversee FISA to review the surveillance of any targeted American whether the person is in the United States or abroad;
Provide for the FISA court to sign off on procedures for removing the name of any American inadvertently captured in a communication with a foreign target;
Prohibit reverse targeting, which is when intelligence officials eavesdrop on a foreigner's communications overseas as a means to spy on someone in the United States.
Close a loophole by explicitly establishing the 1978 law as the exclusive means for authorizing electronic surveillance;
Set up a procedure for federal judges to determine whether a telecommunications company can be sued for providing the intelligence community access to its networks without a court order.
The bill essentially grants immunity to the telecommunication companies, the opponents said, because all of the telephone carriers received government certifications saying their participation in the program was legal.
Obama was criticized for backing away from his early opposition to the bill by liberal bloggers and individuals commenting on his campaign Web site.
Before voting for the bill, Obama voted for an amendment offered by Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Connecticut, that would have stripped the language granting immunity to telecommunications companies.
Civil liberties groups have vowed to fight the legislation in court.
"This fight is not over. We intend to challenge this bill as soon as President Bush signs it into law," Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project, said in a statement issued minutes after the Senate approved the bill. "The bill allows the warrantless and dragnet surveillance of Americans' international telephone and e-mail communications. It plainly violates the Fourth Amendment."
President Bush acknowledged in 2005 that he ordered the secretive National Security Agency to intercept communications between U.S. residents and people overseas suspected of having ties to terrorism. The administration says the program was authorized when Congress approved military action against al Qaeda after the 2001 attacks. The Senate Wednesday approved a bill to put new rules in place for intelligence agency eavesdropping on suspected terrorists. ... more
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