Swing Your Energy, a finger spin powered mobile battery charger
[via:William Gibson]
9 January 2010
8 December 2009
27 August 2009
26 August 2009
Nokia plans to launch mobile “banking”, “paypal”
“The “Nokia Money” service will make it possible “to send money to another person just by using the person’s mobile phone number, as well as to pay merchants for goods and services, pay their utility bills, or recharge their pre-paid SIM cards,” [...] Nokia said it was building up a large network of Nokia Money agents where consumers can deposit money or withdraw cash from their mobile accounts. [...] “In many countries, mobile phone ownership significantly exceeds bank account usage”"
[via:FNB]
16 July 2009
UAE mobile network pushes spyware on Blackberry users
“…text messages and phone calls are usually more easily intercepted [...] the BlackBerry architecture doesn’t lend itself to that kind of legally-authorised interception, which has caused problems in several other countries.”
[via:Slashdot]