Silence On The Train
June 8th, 2011It’s the bane of a commuter’s life: you settle down for your train journey home and someone sits beside you, pulls out a mobile phone and has a conversation. A very loud conversation.
Daily Burn App
June 6th, 2011Calorie conscious eaters can put away their calculators and pull up their smartphone cameras. Meal Snap, a new app iPhone app by DailyBurn, tells users how many calories are in the food items they photograph using the app.
Bye Bye Desktops
June 5th, 2011More internet searches will be done on mobile phones than on desktop computers by 2013 as Australians increasingly embrace smart phones, Google says.
Just 12 per cent of Google searches worldwide were made on a mobile device in December 2010 but that is set to change dramatically, especially in Australia, which has the world’s highest per capita use of mobiles.
Transplant Tourists
June 3rd, 2011A Chinese teenager has reportedly sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan ($3171) so he could buy an iPad 2.
The high school student from Anhui Province, Xiao Zhang, confessed to his mother that he was motivated to sell the kidney after seeing an internet ad offering cash to people who were prepared to become organ donors, according to the Global Times.
3G Phones Lower Dose Of Radio Waves
June 1st, 2011The latest 3G mobile devices such as iPhones and other smart phones may deliver a lower dose of radiowaves to the brain than earlier models but frequent use could still cause cancer, a health expert says.
Mobile Phones Cancer Causing Devices
May 31st, 2011Experts “reached this classification based on review of the human evidence coming from epidemiological studies” pointing to an increased incidence of glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, said Jonathan Samet, president of the work group.
Kakao Talk
May 30th, 2011It began with a simple phrase - “brace yourself” - sent by a university professor to his mistress via a South Korean messaging service app used by millions every day.
The Herald Releases App on iPad
May 29th, 2011After that they will cost $8.99 a month - the same as Fairfax’s rival News Ltd charges for The Australian application.
Both are sold through Apple’s online store, which will take its standard 30 per cent cut.
Your wallet in the palm of your mobile
May 27th, 2011Google has unveiled a free mobile application that turns a smartphone into an electronic wallet and is designed to replace plastic credit cards.
The internet giant, at a press conference at its New York headquarters with financial partners Citibank, MasterCard and First Data and telecom ally Sprint, said “Google Wallet” is being field tested and will be available this summer.
Review of Samsung Infuse 4G
May 25th, 2011The Samsung Infuse 4G is an Android OS smartphone available from AT&T. It has a number of cutting-edge features, starting with with a 4.5-inch touchscreen.
This device also has a 1.2GHz processor and support for AT&T’s HSPA+ network.