You are currently browsing the archives for the Mobile lifestyle category.
SimulScribe (www.simulscribe.com) makes dialing in and listening to voicemail from mobile devices obsolete.
The service uses an advanced voice recognition technology to convert voicemail into text, which then gets delivered in near real time to Blackberries and Treos as email or as text messages to non-email equipped cell phones. A .wav file […]
Yahoo has greatly enhanced its messaging system with a telephone interface. Yahoo Messenger with Voice lets users dial out traditional or mobile phones. For $2.99 per month or $29.90 per year, users can also get a phone number from Yahoo that lets them receive phone calls through the IM interface. Calls made to phone numbers […]
You gotta hand it to the free Skype Inernet telephone calling service.
They sure know how to market.
Skype and SanDisk have annunced a deal in which Skype will now come pre-loaded on the SanDisk Cruzer Micro and Cruzer Titanium lines of those little flash memory thumb drives. That means Skype users can take their personal […]
The Nokia N90 Smartphone is the most technologically advanced wireless device I have yet to get my hands on. I write about it in today’s Detroit Free Press. Below is a video I shot to demonstrate some of it’s capabilities. The video is VHS-quality. Stills are captured at 2 megapixels, the highest resolution to date […]
I may look part robot with a hands-free Bluetooth headset blinking behind a my left ear but I’m slowly getting hooked on these miniature devices. Here’s my Free Press column from today: MIKE WENDLAND: U.S. is all ears for headsets.
Lemme get this straight: Some lamebrained kid is driving and decides to send a text message on his mobile. He looks away from the road and veers into a bicyclist and kills him. And authorities see this only as a misdemeanor? Teen in Crash May Have Been Text Messaging.
I’ve been testing out a new BlackBerry 8700 from Cingular and have toted it around with other phones running on the Verizon and Sprint networks in some pretty out of the way places over the past few weeks. I have been much impressed by the reliability of connections to the high speed Cingular EDGE network. […]
The same kind of ultra-sharp, bold paint jobs that customize fine rides are being applied to the drab gray and silver laptop computers toted around by road warriors whose companies are affixing their corporate logos to the machines. Check out my column in today’s Freep. MIKE WENDLAND: Make your laptop special.
Granted, since I’ve been testing out a new BlackBerry 8700 this week, I’m paying a lot more attention to all these stories about the patent infringement suit against RIM, the maker of this awesome little e-mail machine (look for my Detroit Free Press review Monday). Link: Nasty Thorns In The BlackBerry Patch .But over the […]
"And she said… what?… hang on a sec… Put the cash in the bag NOW! … Sorry, had some work to do… and you were saying?" Robber hits banks while talking on cell phone.
Ever wondered who is doing all those ringtone downloads? Nearly 70 Percent of All Ringtones Downloaded Are Purchased by Women.
According to the Gartner Inc. tech research firm, 55 million notebook computers were sold in the third quarter of 2005, a 17.2% increase from last year. One reason for the surge in sales: Prices have dropped. In my Free Press column today, I look at one of the new notebooks that illustrate how useful and […]
It’s taken some time but VoIP telephone service is getting some legs. Vonage announced today at CES in Las Vegas that it has 400,000 total lines now on its network - the largest in the still fledgling industry. For $25 a month, a homeowner can get unlimited nationwide service with no long distance. Vonage is […]
Thanks to MacMove associate editor Seth Dimbert we now have a photo MOBlog up and running here on TK (see right column).
You can even comment on the pics. Click to see them larger. I’ll be updating the pics hourly from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Most of the pictures will be taken with my […]
I’m packing my computer bag for the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It starts Thursday but all the preliminary stuff for the media gets underway Tuesday.
But as I get organized, I’m realizing I’ll be taking two computers this year. And yes, they both fit in my Timbuk2 Commute messenger bag. I’m taking my […]