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Is NAVTEQ developing Sat Nag technology?
By: Davey Winder
Nobody likes a back seat driver telling you to slow down or change gear. Nobody really likes that annoying satnav woman telling you where to go. Now the two could be combined to produce a sat nag system.
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By: Davey Winder
Nobody likes a back seat driver telling you to slow down or change gear. Nobody really likes that annoying satnav woman telling you where to go. Now the two could be combined to produce a sat nag system.
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Nuance VP Peter Mahoney, on speech recognition benefits and futures (iTWire podcast)
By: Tony Austin
In this podcast with Peter Mahoney, VP of worldwide sales for Nuance Communications, get an update on Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, and find out more about speech recognition, its benefits and potential, products such as Google Android and Palm Treo with embedded Nuance technology, and where speech recognition is headed.
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By: Tony Austin
In this podcast with Peter Mahoney, VP of worldwide sales for Nuance Communications, get an update on Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, and find out more about speech recognition, its benefits and potential, products such as Google Android and Palm Treo with embedded Nuance technology, and where speech recognition is headed.
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Blackberry’s Storm set to rain on iPhone’s parade
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
“Exclusively” coming to Verizon in the US, and Vodafone in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, BlackBerry’s very iPhone-esque Storm promises the Blackberry’s unparalleled email experience, “world first” “click” feedback on a touch screen, cut and paste, multi-touch amongst other iPhone-beating and matching features designed to make the iPhone’s outlook cloudy. Should Apple get out its umbrella?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
“Exclusively” coming to Verizon in the US, and Vodafone in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, BlackBerry’s very iPhone-esque Storm promises the Blackberry’s unparalleled email experience, “world first” “click” feedback on a touch screen, cut and paste, multi-touch amongst other iPhone-beating and matching features designed to make the iPhone’s outlook cloudy. Should Apple get out its umbrella?
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Nokia N96 delivers the goods, Tube 5800 iPhone-clone awaits
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s N96 smartphone is well positioned to be its flagship N-Series phone of 2008, ready to capture as much of the frenetic Christmas/end-of-year/holiday shopping season as possible in the face of the iPhone assault, while also having brought its own iPhone-clone to some markets pre-2009 – but not Australia, the US or Europe.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s N96 smartphone is well positioned to be its flagship N-Series phone of 2008, ready to capture as much of the frenetic Christmas/end-of-year/holiday shopping season as possible in the face of the iPhone assault, while also having brought its own iPhone-clone to some markets pre-2009 – but not Australia, the US or Europe.
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SanDisk launches “world’s largest” microSDHC and M2 cards at 16GB!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The 16GB barrier has been broken for the microSDHC and M2 (Memory Stick Micro) formats with SanDisk set to launch 16GB models in October. It gives added weight to its “Wake up your phone” campaign, forces phone manufacturers to work on firmware updates that are 16GB compatible and further shames Apple into rethinking its policy of omitting memory card expansion for its mobile devices.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The 16GB barrier has been broken for the microSDHC and M2 (Memory Stick Micro) formats with SanDisk set to launch 16GB models in October. It gives added weight to its “Wake up your phone” campaign, forces phone manufacturers to work on firmware updates that are 16GB compatible and further shames Apple into rethinking its policy of omitting memory card expansion for its mobile devices.
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Nokia new N96 launches – is it the iPhone’s biggest threat?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s long-awaited successor to the N95 series has arrived: the N96. Coming after the iPhone 3G, Google Android phone and the HTC Touch, the N96 aims to deliver the most complete mobile experience and compete fiercely for market and mind-share. Not just built to consume digital content and enable communication, the N96 is also being positioned as the ultimate handheld content creator for digital media and the web. On first inspection, does it deliver?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Nokia’s long-awaited successor to the N95 series has arrived: the N96. Coming after the iPhone 3G, Google Android phone and the HTC Touch, the N96 aims to deliver the most complete mobile experience and compete fiercely for market and mind-share. Not just built to consume digital content and enable communication, the N96 is also being positioned as the ultimate handheld content creator for digital media and the web. On first inspection, does it deliver?
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T-Mobile/HTC G1: First Android phone arrives
By: Stephen Withers
After months of anticipation, the first Android-based phone has been unveiled. Does the T-Mobile G1 have what it takes?
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By: Stephen Withers
After months of anticipation, the first Android-based phone has been unveiled. Does the T-Mobile G1 have what it takes?
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Navteq offers US $5.25m in prizes for 2009 Global LBS challenge!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Seeking to encourage application developers to build ever better and more innovative location-based services (LBS) on mobile phones and handheld devices, global mapping company Navteq has announced that Sony Ericsson and deCarta are the two newest sponsors of its upcoming challenge.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Seeking to encourage application developers to build ever better and more innovative location-based services (LBS) on mobile phones and handheld devices, global mapping company Navteq has announced that Sony Ericsson and deCarta are the two newest sponsors of its upcoming challenge.
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Sensis and Telstra searching for GPS supremacy
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Want to make money from GPS? You can sell GPS mapping devices, sell the maps, or sell a monthly subscription to end users. Sensis is doing all three, and more, with the new version of Whereis Navigator further challenging GPS competitors in the search for more paying customers!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Want to make money from GPS? You can sell GPS mapping devices, sell the maps, or sell a monthly subscription to end users. Sensis is doing all three, and more, with the new version of Whereis Navigator further challenging GPS competitors in the search for more paying customers!
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Ay Carumba: microchipping middle-class Mexicans
By: Davey Winder
It would appear that wealthy Mexicans are so worried about being kidnapped that some are prepared to be microchipped in order for them to be traced in such an eventuality...
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By: Davey Winder
It would appear that wealthy Mexicans are so worried about being kidnapped that some are prepared to be microchipped in order for them to be traced in such an eventuality...
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Tech that kills!
By: Mike Bantick
As gadget capabilities expand, can the human mind keep up with new tech and the consequences of distraction? I conducted my own examination.
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By: Mike Bantick
As gadget capabilities expand, can the human mind keep up with new tech and the consequences of distraction? I conducted my own examination.
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GPS wars: Broadcom wins patent victory against SiRF
By: Davey Winder
A US International Trade Commission ruling against SiRF Technology Holdings concerning six patents held by Broadcom subsidiary Global Locate says that all are valid, enforceable and have been infringed. The initial determination covers products incorporating SiRFstarIII GPS architectures which include devices from Garmin, Mio, Motorola, Navman, Sony and TomTom amongst many others...
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By: Davey Winder
A US International Trade Commission ruling against SiRF Technology Holdings concerning six patents held by Broadcom subsidiary Global Locate says that all are valid, enforceable and have been infringed. The initial determination covers products incorporating SiRFstarIII GPS architectures which include devices from Garmin, Mio, Motorola, Navman, Sony and TomTom amongst many others...
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IBM software aims at total recall by tapping data from mobile phone
By: Stephen Withers
IBM researchers have developed software aimed at putting to use the wealth of information that can be captured by current mobile devices. The idea is to make data from photos and audio recordings made with mobile phones and similar devices easily retrievable in context on the desktop.
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By: Stephen Withers
IBM researchers have developed software aimed at putting to use the wealth of information that can be captured by current mobile devices. The idea is to make data from photos and audio recordings made with mobile phones and similar devices easily retrievable in context on the desktop.
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When satnav and stupidity mix, the results are not pretty
By: Davey Winder
Just how stupid can motorists be when it comes to satnav? The answer, according to a new survey, is very stupid indeed. How about so stupid that one motorist drove onto railway tracks and caused a train crash, or the lorry driver delivering goods from Turkey to Gibraltar who went on a 1,600 mile detour via the UK? We reveal the most stupid satnav drivers ever...
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By: Davey Winder
Just how stupid can motorists be when it comes to satnav? The answer, according to a new survey, is very stupid indeed. How about so stupid that one motorist drove onto railway tracks and caused a train crash, or the lorry driver delivering goods from Turkey to Gibraltar who went on a 1,600 mile detour via the UK? We reveal the most stupid satnav drivers ever...
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Cool iPhone timeline on the web
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Did you know that iPhone.org was first registered by Apple in the last century? Yep, it was way back in 1999, and iPhone Gold, one of the trillion iPhone sites out there, has published a cool little timeline of important iPhone developments starting from that first 1999 event!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Did you know that iPhone.org was first registered by Apple in the last century? Yep, it was way back in 1999, and iPhone Gold, one of the trillion iPhone sites out there, has published a cool little timeline of important iPhone developments starting from that first 1999 event!
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Canada gets unlimited mobile browsing – but not for iPhone
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Bell Canada, one of the competitors to dominant Canadian telco Rogers, isn’t also selling the iPhone – but has just introduced unlimited $10 mobile web browsing on the Samsung Instinct. Is it a clever ploy to attract serious interest in the wake of the iPhone or doomed to disinterest?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Bell Canada, one of the competitors to dominant Canadian telco Rogers, isn’t also selling the iPhone – but has just introduced unlimited $10 mobile web browsing on the Samsung Instinct. Is it a clever ploy to attract serious interest in the wake of the iPhone or doomed to disinterest?
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Whereis Everyone: Telstra’s DIY “big brother”
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Want to know where your Telstra phone-owning family and friends are? A new service called Whereis Everyone lets you track them if they’ve given permission for tracking to occur, but you can only use it if you’re on Telstra. How does it work, what does it cost, and what’s the alternative?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Want to know where your Telstra phone-owning family and friends are? A new service called Whereis Everyone lets you track them if they’ve given permission for tracking to occur, but you can only use it if you’re on Telstra. How does it work, what does it cost, and what’s the alternative?
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Samsung i780 Windows Mobile beats iPhone and HTC Diamond for business?
By: Stephen Withers
Never mind the iPhone or the HTC Touch Diamond, Samsung reckons it's new i780 mobile phone is what business users need. Insofar as any one phone can suit the needs of such a diverse group, it just might be right.
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By: Stephen Withers
Never mind the iPhone or the HTC Touch Diamond, Samsung reckons it's new i780 mobile phone is what business users need. Insofar as any one phone can suit the needs of such a diverse group, it just might be right.
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