Japanese mobile phone developers, companies and the recording industry of Japan are in talks currently to agree on new anti-piracy measures to fight music piracy in Japan according to the Financial Times. The proposed solution offered by the recording industry suggest digital rights management to be build into every mobile phone sold in Japan. The [...]

Tags: cell phones, drm, japan, mobile phones, music, Music Industry
Categories: Mobiles, Security

With all the cell phones to come out in recent times packing video players, mp3 players and a whole host of other media functionalities, its not hard to see why MP3 players as well as PMP’s (Personal Media Players) are taking a real hit. Recently Apple announced (no surprise here), that its iPod line was [...]

Tags: cell phones, dedicated media player, iPhone, iPod, media players, palm pre, sony walkman
Categories: Gadgets

So far we’ve heard quite a bit of comparisons between the webOS platform and OSX (for the iPhone), as well as Android vs. OSX. But so far, comparisons between both Android and webOS have been nonexistent. What makes this lack of coverage quite interesting is the fact that both operating systems are built off similar [...]

Tags: android, cell phones, google android, mobile devices, mobile os, Operating Systems, palm pre, palm webos, webos
Categories: Mobiles, Operating Systems

iPhone sells 1,000,000 devices in its opening weekend, Palm sells 300,000 Pre’s in 3 weeks, T-Mobile has 1,000,000 G1’s in circulation. You’d think with these numbers Microsoft and RIM would be pacing their respective offices. But instead both companies are business as usual. I’m almost sure that if you take a visit to Redmond or [...]

Tags: blackberry, cell phones, iPhone, microsoft, palm pre, smartphones, windows mobile
Categories: Mobiles

Non-standard phone chargers are one of the most annoying things of cell phones. The lifecycle of a cell phone is usually two years. That’s when the contract ends and a new cell phone is offered as an incentive to stay with the cell phone provider for another two year period. Cell phone manufacturers use their [...]

Tags: apple, cell phones, europe, lg, motorola, Nokia, phone chargers, samsung, sony ericsson, standard phone chargers
Categories: Mobiles

With the iPhone, Pre, and a whole host of Android devices out the door, the race for the control of the cell phone market is heating up. As things usually go in the cell phone world, there are more battles of who had what first then who actually made it work right. That said, I [...]

Tags: android, apple, atom, cell phones, mobile phones, paml, smartphones, tegra
Categories: Mobiles

It has been known for some time that hardly any innovation goes into the technology world these days. While many will debate as to whether this is true or not, a quick look at some of the biggest tech crazes of our time will show that the idea has been around for longer then we [...]

Tags: appstore, cell phones, marketplace, microsoft, myphone, palm, windows marketplace, windows mobile, windows phone
Categories: Mobiles