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A Handy Escape From Voice Mail Jail
White Papers What should you call one of those devices that combines a cell phone and what we used to call a 'personal digital assistant' and now refer to as simply a PDA? The Europeans have a good name for it, one they already use for a cell phone: a handy.
[June 2, 2005, 3:00]
Motorola Launches Skype Alliance
News Because the phones would steer calls away from mobile phone networks, combination cell and voice-over-IP phones could have a profound impact on the telecoms industry. Interest in combination cell and VoIP phones is growing from handset makers and...
[February 15, 2005, 8:50]
New Focus, New Fears Aid Iridium Relaunch
News Cell-phone networks rely on antennas placed on buildings, light poles or other structures. Coverage can be spotty in areas where there are no antennas or the cell phone does not have a clear line of sight to an antenna.
[November 9, 2001, 8:53]
F-Secure Hits Out At Surveillance Program
News That version will also include a "monitoring" feature that lets the user call the target cell phone from a preset number and listen in on what's going on in the background, in much the same way a baby monitor works.
[March 30, 2006, 9:55]
Qualcomm Owns Up To Faulty Chips
News The chips are part of Qualcomm's "next generation" offerings for wireless devices that use the cell phone standard code division multiple access, or CDMA. One of the reasons was that wireless carriers weren't approving as quickly as expected the...
[April 5, 2002, 11:31]
Broadcom Cleans Up Noisy Mobiles
News M-Stream also improves voice quality on lower bit rates, which many operators are adopting to get higher numbers of users per cell. Broadcom claims that this will allow network operators to support twice as many users per cell as previously with no...
[February 14, 2006, 11:15]
CallOut From VoIP Programs To Fixed/Cell Phones
Blog Personally, I find one of the biggest advantages of these Dial-Out capabilities is when I am traveling, it certainly beats paying cell phone roaming fees or hotel telephone charges! For the test, I made calls to my brother's fixed and cell phones...
[February 14, 2008, 19:24]
Studies Blame WAP For Mobile Phone Woes
News Some cell phones are so hard to use that most people are abandoning the fancy features such as e-mail, according to two studies that put the blame on WAP. More than 90 percent of the handsets on the market contain WAP (wireless application protocol...
[May 25, 2001, 9:31]
Free Cellular Alarm Clock
Downloads The Free Cellular Alarm Clock is a completely 100%-free product that will use your cellular phone to give you a wake-up call, remind you of an important meeting, send a reminder to your child's cell phone, or let you know when to do something.
[September 22, 2003, 21:01]
BluePhoneElite
Downloads BluePhoneElite extends the calling features of your cell phone to OS X with a simple yet powerful interface. Both incoming and outgoing calls are saved to a call log that includes the time, date and duration of the call, the phone that was used...
[April 29, 2005, 7:19]
Central DuPage Hospital Improves Patient Care With IP Communications System
White Papers The hospital replaced the costly, less-effective cell phones with Cisco Wireless IP Phone 7920s. The hospital's IT group wanted to replace the cell phones because calls to them could not be integrated into a central call-management program - and...
[June 6, 2006, 0:00]
EQO For Windows Mobile
Downloads It works just like your cell's phonebook--simply scroll through contacts and click to call or send a message. EQO (pronounced 'echo') is an easy-to-use application for your existing mobile phone that lets you place cheap international calls, text...
[July 19, 2008, 6:46]
EQO For Java
Downloads It works just like your cell's phonebook--simply scroll through contacts and click to call or send a message. EQO (pronounced 'echo') is a free, easy to use application for your existing mobile phone that lets you place cheap international calls...
[June 21, 2008, 5:16]
EQO For Symbian
Downloads It works just like your cell's phonebook--simply scroll through contacts and click to call or send a message. EQO (pronounced 'echo') is a free, easy to use application for your existing mobile phone that lets you place cheap international calls...
[July 4, 2008, 7:16]
ThePhoneBot
Downloads With other advanced features like: voicemail retrieval over the Internet, E-mail, IM or Cell phone notification when new calls arrive, audible CallerID using Windows speech, complete phonebook with custom rings, greetings and caller images...
[February 10, 2005, 11:16]
Microsoft And Siemens Collaborate On Communication
News The technologies are designed to work with a typical desk phone, alerting users when a call comes in, then routing the call to a recipient's cell phone or voice mailbox. The integration will allow Microsoft Office users to click their mouse to make...
[January 12, 2005, 14:51]
Mobile Phones Fall Over In Emergency
News Cell phone service once again failed to step up in the face of calamity. This is the second time a significant number of American cell phone subscribers had difficulty making calls during a time of crisis.
[August 18, 2003, 9:15]
'Secure Cloud' On The Horizon For Microsoft
News For example, if Outlook's calendar shows that a person is in a meeting, it can route voice calls to that person's cell phone. Or if someone sends an IM to a user, the software can then prompt a Net phone call and record a voice message.
[October 26, 2004, 16:10]
Cell Phone Viruses: What? Those Really Exist?
Blog Consider how many other people’s cell number you have got in your contacts list and now considering the other 800 million cell phone users in the world think about how interconnected we all are. I think the last number I read was that the average...
[June 4, 2007, 19:36]
A Year Ago: Airlines Ban Mobile Phones, But Why?
News Here's the real reason airlines are dealing you the mute button on your cell phone. The two main providers of this air-phone service, GTE and AT&T charge about $6 (£3.65) for a one-minute call, more than 20 times typical cell-phone rates.
[October 6, 2000, 7:02]
