NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
If I’ve learned one thing from the internet, it's that unsolicited offers of free stuff are, more often than not, bad news. Believe it or not, Nigerian princes do not actually want to give you 12 million dollars. Nor do any of those obnoxious advertisers actually want to give you a bunch of [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the above screenshot of this help page, T-mobile is kindly helping visitors figure out how to navigate through their Sidekick LX’s menus to determine how much memory is available for pictures and videos. Thing is, the Sidekick LX doesn't support videos at this point. Nor does the Sidekick Slide, which now has a similar [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Wednesday of this week, AT&T issued a sales restriction of one iPhone per customer. By Thursday the restriction was lifted. The carrier has gone back to its old policy of selling up to three iPhones per customers. Yesterday, AT&T made a statement explaining the reversal: “Our No. 1 concern is to make sure that [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
With TwitterFone rolling out local numbers for a bunch of countries yesterday, the service seems to be quickly moving toward the end of its private beta phase. I figured it was about time to put TwitterFone’s voice-to-text tweet abilities to the test. To test it out, I put TwitterFone through a handful of situations it might [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The French wireless company Orange announced today that it has struck a deal with Apple to sell the popular iPhone in the Middle East, Africa, Central America and several European countries. In a short statement the company said it will sell the iPhone in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Launched in 2000, deviantART is an online artist community with over 7 million members. Anyone can sign up and upload (and potentially sell) whatever they deem as “Art”. Some of it is awesome. Some of it, er, isn't. If you don't mind filtering out a bit of poorly drawn anime and a few suggestively posed [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Back in April at CTIA, Microsoft was showing off a few new features on the way for their search application, Live Search for Windows Mobile. They announced this morning that these features would be available to users starting today. The new features: Map your friends: Grabs addresses from your contact list, puts them on the map, and [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
As you know, after Feb. 17, 2009, all analog television broadcasts will end and the U.S. will go digital. Companies are competing with one another to set the standard for mobile TV, which will allow mobile phones to receive and display digital signals from local broadcast stations. Samsung Electronics and LG are joining the arena [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Since its German launch last November, the iPhone has sold more than 100,000 units. T-Mobile, which is owned by Deutsche Telekom, has the exclusive contract to sell the popular device in Germany. Chief executive Rene Obermann, while speaking at an annual general meeting, said the iPhone is the most popular multimedia device sold by Deutsche [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
FlyTunes, a free radio streaming application for the iPhone/iPod touch, just got some upgrade love. They've added over 200 new channels to the list, bringing the number of available streams up to around 350. Not bad for free, when you consider that subscription satellite services like XM and Sirius only manage to offer about 70 [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Apparently, Aliph isn't a big fan of model numbers or extraneous branding. They've already managed to re-associate the word “Jawbone” with “really friggin’ good headsets”, so there isn't really any reason for them to call a new one “Ultra Jawbone Facerocket Plus” or something. As such, Aliph’s newest Jawbone is simply going by “the new [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
With LiMo’s recent announcement that Verizon had hopped onto their Board of Directors, things are starting to heat up between the LiMo platform and Google’s competing product, Android. Both are open-source Linux-based platforms, and both are aiming to rock the handset market sometime in the next year or so. LiMo is Linux-based. Android is Linux [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
TechCrunch recently took a look at Twitterfone, Pat Phelan's new voice to text transcription service for Twitter, mentioning that it should be available in more countries soon. We just got word that local support has been added for 13 more countries, bringing the list up to 17. Any Twitterfone user can dial into any of [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Filling the last available seat on the Board of Directors, Verizon has become the first American carrier to join with the LiMo foundation. LiMo is the main competitor of Google’s Android in the area of Linux-based software development platforms. However, Verizon will not be dropping their intentions to support Android; by supporting both, Verizon [...]
NovaCiencia.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The Philips X800 that Peter told us about last week has been confirmed according to GSM Arena. It's a tri-band GSM/GPRS device running Windows Mobile with a 2.9-inch display that covers most of the face. It'll also have a 2-megapixel autofocus camera, Bluetooth, and memory will be expandable via microSD. Battery life looks okay, [...]
