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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's true -- mobile phones with high resolution screens and faberoonie software will be falling from the skies by 2004, neatly reinvigorating the somewhat jaded cellphone industry. If your mobile phone becomes your PDA, then bang goes the cellphone...
[March 5, 2001, 9:33]
the development of science
Blog Several technologies that we usually use are the internet, computer, and cellphone. The last technology is cellphone. Nowadays, many people have a cellphone. 21st century is the century of technology.
[August 4, 2009, 10:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's best to assume -- as you can be sure the bad guys do, no matter what -- that every telephone is tapped, and every cellphone is shown as a little light on a giant map of Great Britain deep in some underground government bunker.
[November 2, 2001, 15:45]
Tuesday
Blog The aircraft systems are designed to resist such signals, and your cellphone is designed to not send them out in the first place. Not to mention the plane's transmitters themselves, which put out more power than every cellphone on board put together.
[August 30, 2002, 17:27]
MobileMoney:Africa's 11
Blog In addition to being able to conduct cellphone-to-cellphone transactions, WIZZIT account holders are issued Maestro debit cards that can be used at any ATM or retailer. MTN Banking offers the subscribers, the Mobile Money account which gives...
[May 19, 2009, 16:21]
Friday
Blog We have learned that planners at the Department of Defense and USAID are currently envisioning using federal appropriations to deploy a European-based wireless technology known as GSM ('Groupe Speciale Mobile' -- this standard was developed by the...
[March 28, 2003, 9:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog See a sneak preview of an absolutely fab cellphone. I can't reveal the name of the manufacturer - because they don't know I know - but it's the bee's knees. It has infra-red connectivity, so you dump it next to your laptop and voila, it's all...
[February 21, 1998, 6:00]
Friday
Blog the new T68i cellphone/camera. Friday 2/07/2002 So, Sony Ericsson is hiring 'attractive young actors and actresses' to pose as tourists, asking passers-by to take their picture with -- aha! When the innocent bystanders express surprise and delight...
[August 5, 2002, 11:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Regular readers will recall me getting excited by new fuel cell technologies, where you pour a miniature of vodka into the back of the cellphone and it runs for longer than you would on the same supply.
[October 15, 2001, 19:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cellphone and portable computer manufacturers have been pushing the boundaries further than before and a new batch of battery beaters is being unveiled in Hannover at an industrial fair today. The size and shape of a cellphone battery, it's...
[May 17, 2001, 19:04]
Wednesday
Blog Every so often, some well-meaning but fuzzy thinking pressure group gets going to ban evil radio transmitters from near kiddywinks, because "we don't know whether cellphone base stations are safe, so we'd better be careful.
[July 26, 2002, 14:40]
T-Mobile exec praises Android, attacks Windows
Blog Reinhard Clemens, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, is quoted in Fierce Wireless as saying Android is "the first OS that enables the development of cellphone software without the need to change the code to support specific...
[March 9, 2009, 16:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Personally, I think that anyone who's invented a battery that can run a cellphone for a year has better things to be doing than poking around in cemeteries. Thursday 03/02/2005 Grave news from Germany, where the Reg reports on the Telefon-Engle...
[February 4, 2005, 16:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This still isn't quite small or parsimonious enough to build, say, a cellphone that runs XP -- always supposing such a thing is in any way sane. Tuesday 14/10/2003 Tiny is always fun. Via thinks so -- it's announced its Eden-N 1 GHz x86 processor...
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And we'll see reruns of all the cellphone nonsense -- health scares, portable jamming devices, 'are these toys poisoning the minds of our children' and so on. Friday According to Bugtraq, wireless keyboards are not the most secure devices on the...
[June 15, 2001, 17:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This much overlooked insect has lessons for the cellphone industry: the cells on its back work out whether to be bristles or exoskeleton for themselves, based on what chemical signals they get from their neighbours while the fruit fly is growing up.
[April 22, 2002, 11:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog It's also an exercise in telecommunications these days; the site was saturated not just with soupy cow glop but optical fibres, twisted pairs and extra cellphone coverage. At home today and tomorrow, on me hols.
[July 5, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It might be built into your cellphone or wristwatch or PDA or handbag or whatever: and, of course, you can always borrow someone else's. Monday 15/11/1999 Biometrics! Better get interested in them, 'cos they're very interested in you.
[November 20, 1999, 16:25]
Android becomes an accessibility testbed
Blog Raman, who is already using the G1 as his primary cellphone, hopes to make them freely available soon. There is much kerfuffling going on right now about the news that, shock horror, paid-for apps will soon appear in the Android Marketplace.
[January 6, 2009, 11:46]
Thursday: Technology failure day
Blog Simultaneously, my cellphone goes off. Thursday 17/07/2003 There are days when technology is not my friend. This morning, as I prepare to write about web services -- conclusion: industry politics and market manipulation lead technical excellence...
[July 18, 2003, 16:28]
