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Deutsche BA, a smaller German airline, has started a new service that allows flyers to check in via MMS. The mechanism is simple; approximately three hours before a passenger is scheduled for a flight, the airline will send a barcode...
According to Moscow based Kaspersky Labs, a new Trojan horse that is able to infect almost any mobile phone or PDA is in the wild. The Trojan called "RedBrowser" targets traditional mobile phones running Java as well as the newer...
A research group, Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association (MARA), has found the first mobile phone to PC virus. Thankfully, it appears that the virus was sent directly to them instead of being found in the wild. The virus included the following...
Cell phones often get the rap as being facilitators of bad manners in public, but the San Jose Museum of Art has the novel idea of getting it's patrons to listen instead of talk. During a current exibit, "Visual Politics:...
Cornice’s is making two notable announcements at 3GSM: The Cornice Dragon Series Micro Hard Drive will be launching in 8- and 10-gigabyte capacities. Cornice Hard Drives will be inside the Samsung i300 Mobile Smartphone [via Cornice]...
Today at the DEMO 06 conference in Phoenix, AZ new startup called Sharpcast is promising to seamlessly connect your computer, cell phone, and web photo albums together. Sharpcast promises "instantaneous backup of mobile phone pictures, speedy catalog recovery and...
Dec 08 2003 - 03:17 PM ET | Miscellaneous
According to a recent piece on Slate, personal cell phone jammers in the US will become more common place as more Americans become fed up with the constant jabbering. Jammers are legal to purchase, but illegal to use. We mentioned...
Dec 04 2003 - 08:55 AM ET | Miscellaneous
Anxiety over mobile phones, especially over camera phones is growing. At least one city wants to go as far as banning phones in its parks. Washington D.C. is looking to ban phones while driving, a move similar to what other...
Dec 02 2003 - 04:24 PM ET | Miscellaneous
The News Factor Network has posted some tips to help keep your cell phone bill down. Nothing that striking, but it brings some good points: * Stick to a one year contract * Expect taxes to be 15-20% on top...
Nov 18 2003 - 03:39 PM ET | Miscellaneous
A massive study that will try to identify the potential risks of cell phone usage has been funded by the US government. For the past 10 years, there have been concerns that cell phones can foster the development of brain...
Sep 15 2003 - 03:15 PM ET | Miscellaneous
Wired News has posted an article on the future of mobile gaming. It used to just be Snake (followed shortly after by a little improved "Snake II"), but it has gotten a lot better--look for full-color, three-dimensional, multiplayer games in...
Jul 09 2003 - 03:26 PM ET | Miscellaneous
PC Pro thinks the next big thing in mobile phones is better text input. T9 is good, but it is going to get some competition. Look for a MobileTracker piece on this topic in the coming weeks....
InfoSync World has a neat article on a new product called Fortress SMS for Symbian or Series 60 powered phones that encrypted SMS messages. The software uses AES encryption, so unless you're up against someone with a super computer and...
Jun 04 2003 - 10:32 PM ET | Miscellaneous
David Pogue's latest article (free reg. req) for the New York Times is all about cell phones. He asked the different phone makers to send him their easiest to use phones... As you'd expect, none of the phones were very...
Apr 30 2003 - 05:54 PM ET | Miscellaneous
Following up our story on Tuesday, we have found an airline that is going to allow passengers to use non-voice functions of their mobile phones while flying. Don't celebrate too much though--it's Scandinavian Airlines. Now, we're sure than Scandinavian Airlines...
Apr 29 2003 - 09:26 AM ET | Miscellaneous
Gizmodo linked to an article by Guy Kewney that asks if cell phone are really as dangerous on airliners as the airlines say. An interesting read, let's hope an aerospace nerd reads and can fill him in. "Can a mobile...
Apr 23 2003 - 11:31 PM ET | Miscellaneous
Silicon.com has posted a roundup of true stories about how mobile phones saved the day. Some are quite humorous: "I was researching my family tree by browsing through the burial records which are held at the local crematorium. I was...
Apr 08 2003 - 06:04 PM ET | Miscellaneous
C|NET has posted an excellent Q&A with Martin Cooper--the inventor of the cell phone. You may remember Mr. Cooper from our story from last week when the cell phone turned 30. He's a pretty funny guy for being a scientist...
Apr 07 2003 - 06:05 PM ET | Miscellaneous
MobileBurn has posted some pictures and thoughts of Microsoft's Mobile Mobius event that just wrapped up. We weren't able to make it this year, but it looked like a great time....
Apr 07 2003 - 03:48 PM ET | Miscellaneous
3G.co.uk thinks that MMS will be a flop due to it not having content. Why won't it have any content? A lack of copyright protection or what's called Digital Rights Management in the biz. "Without some form of DRM, anybody...
Apr 05 2003 - 09:05 PM ET | Miscellaneous
If that headline didn't get your attention you must have misread it. Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone (it recently turned 30) is dreaming about the day when hand sets are gone. "Cooper's dream telephone is so small...
Apr 01 2003 - 08:40 PM ET | Miscellaneous
Yesterday we linked to an obvious prank review of a phone from a decade ago. Here are a few more good April Fool's jokes in the wireless arena. PhoneScoop - There is no permanent URL, so hurry to get there....
Clay Shirky is well known around the Internet for his tech essays. His latest is on why 3G (the mobile phone technology that's supposed to rule the world about a year) will fail. While we can't agree with everything said,...
