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Is Voice-Based Bubbly the New Twitter?

11 March 2010, 2:09 pm by: emily
A hot new social-networking service by Bubblemotion dubbed Bubbly, which is essentially a voice-based Twitter, is quickly gaining popularity among Indians. And thanks to Bollywood celebs being early adopters, Bubbly is growing virally and with virtua...

New technology heats up cell phones when callers get agitated

11 March 2010, 1:58 pm by: emily
A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo has developed a technology that makes it possible to “physically” convey emotions from cell phone to cell phone. CrunchGear reports. When you start sweating and become emotionally agitated durin...

Bill to limit cell phone harassment progresses

11 March 2010, 1:46 pm by: emily
A bill that makes it illegal to send obscene, harassing or threatening communication with a cell phone or other mobile device won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. The Herald Dispatch reports. Several senators on the commit...

Tiger Text, SMS erasing application goes international

11 March 2010, 1:36 pm by: emily
Following the huge success in the US of the launch of TigerText, an iPhone app that enables people erase text messages after they have been sent, the app is now available Internationally: in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Isr...

Last Call - The first interactive Movie

11 March 2010, 4:58 am by: emily
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Mexican Telecoms Tycoon replaces Bill Gates as 'world's richest' person

11 March 2010, 4:54 am by: emily
Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett with a fortune estimated at $53.5 billion. [via Cellular News]

Mobile boom fuels health work in developing countries

11 March 2010, 4:45 am by: emily
The explosion of mobile use in developing countries is helping transform health care. The BBC reports. Groups such as DataDyne use mobiles to collect and share vital data on health and disease is collected. The organisation produces EpiSurveyor,...

M-Via Lets You Transfer Money Overseas From Any Phone — at a Low Cost

11 March 2010, 4:38 am by: emily
Venture Beat on M-Via, a young mobile phone payment service that lets you send or receive money internationally on any type of phone — even if you and your recipients don’t have bank accounts. m-Via’s tagline is “Sending cash, now as easy a...

Michelle Obama launches Apps for Healthy Kids

10 March 2010, 7:10 pm by: emily
The Apps for Healthy Kids competition is a part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to end childhood obesity within a generation. Apps for Healthy Kids challenges software developers, game designers, students, and other innovat...

Moviegoer stabbed for complaining about a woman on her cell phone

10 March 2010, 1:28 pm by: emily
A man was stabbed with a meat thermometer in a movie theater in LA - of all places - after complaining to a woman about talking on her cell phone during a Saturday night screening of Shutter Island. [via boingboing]

iPhone app icon fridge magnets

10 March 2010, 1:20 pm by: emily
Spotted on appmodo, iPhone app icon magnets for your fridge. From Jailbreak toys.

In developed countries cell phone growth to come from seniors

10 March 2010, 11:46 am by: emily
Among cell phone users in developed countries, IBM is betting the market with the biggest growth potential is...people over the age of 65? Fast Company reports. IBM's two-year research program, which also involves the National Institute of Design o...

KDDI's Cell Phone that allows bosses to snoop on staff

10 March 2010, 5:42 am by: emily
The BBC reports that Japanese Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff. Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks even the t...

Retweet.com Sells for $250,000

10 March 2010, 5:36 am by: emily
retweet.com, which put itself up for sale last month, has sold for $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The auction saw a fair amount of interest with 45 bids in total. [via Mashable]

All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple

10 March 2010, 5:28 am by: emily
The EFF obtained a copy of the highly secretive agreement between Apple and iPhone developers. [via Publish2 Newsgroup]

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