At the CEATEC technology conference in Japan, Toshiba is demonstrating a methanol-based fuel cell for mobile phones. This direct methanol fuel cell uses an interaction between the methanol, water and air to generate enough electrical charge to power 6 hours of talk time in a cell phone. A 50 mL cartridge would be able to […]

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New technology allowing customers of UK banks to manage their accounts through their mobile phone is being introduced, reports the BBC.”Lloyds TSB will next month be the first to allow customers to transfer funds between accounts within the same bank via their mobile.
The software already exists which would allow people to make payments to other […]

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Today NTT DoCoMo and technology partners Sharp and Nissan rolled out the first mobile phone that has an integrated Intelligent Key in it. The Intelligent Key can be used to unlock a car, and also to start the engine. Nissan has already built a number of cars that can use the Intelligent Key system. The […]

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Today Qualcomm announced that it will begin building new chips that will allow for combined cellular/satellite phones. Qualcomm struck an agreement with satellite providers Mobile Satellite Ventures and ICO Global Communications. It will incorporate their technology into new baseband chips for use in cell phones so that phones can use both cellular networks and satellite […]

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Its not just music that Apple is interested in. If recent patents filed by Apple are any indication, then your shoes are about to get a whole lot smarter. Built-in GPS into the shoes would allow the user to be alerted when he or she approaches a point of interest. Apple claims that the user […]

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Check out Swype, the next generation input for text messaging created by the same people who brought us T9 predictive text messaging, included in most phone models. Soon to be released on the market.
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For any med students who coveted the original Blackberry pager back in ‘98 almost as much as they can’t wait for the Bold to drop on AT&T, CRN’s evolution of the Blackberry will bring joy to your heart. Within which we realize that RIM actually hasn’t evolved their drug-metaphor-laden email device all that much.
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DigitWireless has announced a new text-input method for touch screen devices that allows users to trace words rather than triple tap them. Trace lets users of touch-capacitance keypads place a finger on the first letter of any word, and then trace their finger across the other letters in one motion. As you trace, word prediction […]

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A company called M2E Power is developing technology that will harness the kinetic movement of the human body to charge electronic devices, including cellular phones. The charging station would be a small device worn on the body. Whenever the wearer moves, such as walking or running, the movement will create and store electrical energy in […]

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Today Motorola announced its next-generation push-to-talk technology that works with CDMA EVDO Rev. A networks, rather than iDEN. The PTT over cellular, or PoC, system uses a special piece of software on the phone to make PTT calls work via Rev. A networks. It provides functionality similar to its iDEN-based PTT technology, and lets users […]

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