Do you have a big carbon footprint? Get out your mobile phone and check. Reuters India reports how.
“European scientists have devised an online application to measure how much greenhouse gas people emit from the way they travel, light their homes, choose dinner or watch television.
“The idea is to help people be aware of the [...]
Sony Ericsson K800i : A Cyber-shot digital camera and a small and sophisticated feature-packed 3G phone all in one. Bring the K800i with you and you have a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, image and video stabilizer and built-in Xenon flash ready for any moment, anytime. BestPic technology lets you capture several images in quick [...]
The new candybar 1600 has a sleek, smooth design with chrome details and a 65,536 colour screen. It sounds great, too, with 20 polyphonic ringtones of MP3-grade. Plus with its speaking alarm and clock, you’ll never miss a thing!
Band
Dual-band
Weight
85 g
Talk time (up to)
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An active lifestyle needs an active phone, and this one’s got it all: music, communications, imaging and all the essential active accessories.
Be Fully Equipped
Work out to the music you like best. The kit includes an active stereo headset and an armband – attach it to your phone, snap it round your arm and go.
Measure Your [...]
French Journal du Geek has posted some good pictures from lat night’s first iPhone sales on the Champs Elysée. [via I4U]
We feel so left out here in Switzerland where there has been no official news at all as to when the iPhone will be available and which operator will be offering it (probably Swiscom). [...]
A NSW (in the USA) childcare provider has been fined nearly 17 thousand dollars for underpaying an employee for 15 months and then sacking her via a phone-text message.
[via Live News]
Links to other fired by SMS stories.
Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told reporters at a recent meeting that a 3G version of the Apple iPhone will be available in 2008. He said he could [...]
Six months after rolling out its Mobile Banking service to consumers in the USA, Bank of America says that it has reached a record 500,000 active mobile customers. According to a recent Tower Group report, that’s more than all other U.S. banks combined.
[via Cellular News]
Google is updating its Google Maps for Mobile with a new location finder feature that enables users to find their location even though they don’t have a GPS chip in their device. The My Location feature, which is available as a beta, helps the more than 85 percent of handsets that don’t have GPS [...]
According to the The New Zealand Herald, Prime Minister Helen Clark has been accused of insulting the Queen by text messaging while the monarch was making a speech.
Daily Express newspaper in England reported that Helen Clark was seen texting during the Queen’s opening address to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda last [...]