ASUS look set to unveil a phone that can dock with a tablet at the Computex event at the end of this month, according to reports. The device, which is rumoured to be called the Padfone, looks to be the second iteration we’ve seen of the PC in your pocket concept that Motorola recently pioneered [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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European Mobile Charger Agreement Comes into Force Today
A voluntary agreement by all the major mobile phone manufacturers comes into force today in the EU, and because of the way phones are manufactured these days it’s bound to very quickly have positive repercussions around the world. Under the agreement, all new phones announced from today for sale in the EU will have a [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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BBC News releases Smartphone Malware… deliberately
No, the BBC isn’t trying to subsidise its coffers by branching out into cyber-crime. As an experiment the British public-service broadcaster wants to know just how secure smartphones really are. The malware takes the form of a game that spies on the smartphone’s owner and was built using the standard software toolkits that are available [...]
- Author: David Pierce
- Comments: 26
How To Make Free Calls From Your Computer With Google Voice
About three weeks ago, I finally got an invite for Google Voice, the new phone-managing service from Google that I’d been itching to try out since before it was even called Google Voice (back then, it was called GrandCentral, and I still wanted it really, really badly). Google Voice has a ton of great features, [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Use your computer as a phone for free
I recently discovered a really cool feature in Vista (I think it isn’t available quite so readily in XP), which allows you to transform your computer into a phone really easily. Of course you’ll need a bluetooth capable mobile, and a bluetooth capable computer (or an adapter), but once you hook the two together you [...]
The iPhone
With the kind of reality distorting statement we’re usually only accustomed to hear from Apple keynotes I’d like to present the exclusive on the iPhone: It has 3G and you heard it from us first. Apologies for the cynicism, I don’t hate the iPhone, or any Apple product. I think they’re great, but just not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Send Free SMS to 56 Countries
Why would someone pay for sending an SMS if he could send it for free on the Internet ? He should be sitting next to a computer of course but if the service is reliable there should not be a reason to pay for the SMS. Gizmo SMS can send SMS to 56 countries. Not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Record Skype Calls
I mainly use Skype to chat with some friends of mine and can’t honestly say how I ended up using this voice over IP software and not some Instant Messenger. Skype does have some advantages over common Instant Messengers, you can call the “outside” world and have multi-user conferences. Me and two friends used to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Skype 3.0 final has been released
A new version of the communications suite Skype has been released today. Just head over to the Skype homepage and download the version for your operating system. Skype 3.0 introduces some new features and bugfixes, please take a look at the release notes if you are curious about them. The interface has seen some slight changes and some new features like public chat have been introduced.