Neowin News Feed for: Cell

Nokia wants to use drones for network maintenance

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:24:01 +0000

Drones are already being used in numerous capacities and Nokia has found another novel use for drones: supporting telcos and network maintenance. Read more...

North Koreans using mobile phones to be punished as ‘war criminals'

Andy Weir — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:54:47 +0000

North Korea decrees that any citizen using a mobile phone during the 100-day mourning period for former leader Kim Jong-il will be severely punished, as government fear of a popular uprising grows. Read more...

Cell carriers prep for Hurricane Irene

Matthew Jones — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:57:52 +0000

With Hurricane Irene bearing down on the US East Coast, major cell carriers are doing what they can to prepare for possible outages and damage to their networks. Read more...

Mobile phone users in the U.S., Canada, Spain pay the most

Kristan Kenney — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:35:28 +0000

The Wall Street Journal are reporting that out of 30 surveyed countries, cell phone users in the U.S, Canada, and Spain have the most expensive mobile phone bills in the world. "People don't give up... Read more...

Nokia denies plans to run Google's Android

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:40:05 +0000

In perhaps an unsurprising turn of events the telecommunications giant Nokia have squashed rumours regarding their rumoured move to the Android platform. An article published on tech informer website Engadget earlier this month,... Read more...

Nokia unveils three new cell phones

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:09:15 +0000

Nokia on Thursday released three new cell phone models - Nokia 6700 classic, the Nokia 6303 classic and the Nokia 2700 classic - which are built and designed for ease of functionality and user experience.... Read more...

Verizon offers in home personal cell tower

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:44:13 +0000

Verizon has introduced a new in home personal cell phone tower that connects to your broadband connection so users can get a full signal within a 5000 square foot area. The unit connects... Read more...

Regional cell phone carriers, a thing of the past

Brad Sams — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:44:15 +0000

A growing trend for mega-corps is to buy out relative mom and pop companies to expand. Specifically, in the cell phone industry, any company other than Verizon and ATT should fear a buyout. ... Read more...

Toshiba's First Fuel Cell Coming in a Few Months

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:14:58 +0000

Toshiba is close to launching its first commercial direct-methanol fuel-cell device, which promises a faster way to recharge portable electronics products. The company said Monday that the DMFC will be launched during its current financial... Read more...

Cell phones and virtual worlds morphing shopper ways

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:18:53 +0000

Virtual worlds, mobile coupons and bar-code readers on cell phones are the next technology wave that U.S. chain stores must ride if they hope to stay competitive in the fast-changing world of global retail. Retailers,... Read more...

al-Qaida offers its Videos for Cell Phones

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:10:53 +0000

In order to extend its influence, Al-Qaida's media wing, al-Sahab, announced the availability of eight Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri video messages for cell phones. In a written message introducing the new cell phone... Read more...

Japanese Citizens get Cell Tower Removed for Health Reasons

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:54:37 +0000

NTT DoCoMo Kansa, Inc will be removing a tower that it installed in a local bus station December 2005. About 40 residents of Kawanishi, Hyogo formed a group to eliminate pollution triggered by electromagnetic... Read more...

Air France Tests Cell Services

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:48:02 +0000

Air France has become the first airline to offer international passengers e-mail and text-messaging service that's based on standard cell phone technology. The catch: It's only available on a single Airbus A318 aircraft in the... Read more...

Cell Phone Spending Surpasses Land Lines

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:57:14 +0000

With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services, industry and government officials say. The most... Read more...

Global cell phone use at 50 percent

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:40:06 +0000

Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion -- equivalent to half the global population -- on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said. Since the first Nordic Mobile... Read more...

Google service uses cell towers to locate users

Tom Warren — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:50:15 +0000

The new Google Maps with MyLocation service allows users without GPS-enabled phones to figure out their location by using nearby cell-phone towers Google launched a location service for mobile users on Wednesday that... Read more...

Sharp Readying Thin Solar Cell Output For 2008

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:08:07 +0000

Sharp Corporation, the number one maker of solar cells in the world, plans to increase production of thin-film silicon solar cells over the next year at one of its plants located in the Nara Prefecture,... Read more...

Disney Ends Cell Phone Service for Kids

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:37:36 +0000

The Walt Disney Company plans to pull the plug on its branded cell phone service by the end of the year saying there were problems getting the phone into large retailers. "We decided that changing... Read more...

Sony Denies Sale of Cell Chip Facilities to Toshiba

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:39:44 +0000

Contrary to previous reports, Sony has stated it is not considering the sale of its Cell chip operations facilities to Toshiba. The Nikkei, a Japanese business daily, first reported of the sale to Toshiba last... Read more...

China heads toward 500 million cell phone subscribers

Tue, 29 May 2007 19:46:12 +0000

China had 487.4 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of April, an increase of 6.7 million over March, China's Ministry of Information Industry said on its Web site. The country added 6.8 million new... Read more...

Cell phone cameras help Japanese lose weight

Sat, 26 May 2007 17:02:27 +0000

Some Japanese cell phone users are photographing their meals and sending the image to nutritionists for analysis and recommendations. Public health insurance offices in Osaka prefecture in western Japan have launched the service on a... Read more...

Sun aims for ultra-cheap cell phones

Tom Warren — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:35:15 +0000

Call it Sun Microsystems' answer to One Laptop Per Child. The server and software company hopes to sell a version of Java to phone companies that will bring network access to the world's computers,... Read more...

Japan's KDDI to Provide Cell Phone Service in U.S.

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:56:35 +0000

Japan's KDDI, the second-biggest mobile phone operator in Japan after NTT DoCoMo, has announced it aims to offer a cellphone service to mainly Japanese customers (according to a spokesman) in the United States using a... Read more...

New Bio Fuel Cell Extracts Electricity From Air

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:42:07 +0000

Fraser Armstrong, Ph.D. and his research team at Oxford University have managed to develop a revolutionary bio fuel cell which promises clean and renewable energy. The bio fuel cell contains two electrodes that are covered... Read more...

Bandai Namco Using PS3 Cell in Arcade

Joe Cashman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:36:27 +0000

Bandai Namco is developing arcade games using the Cell chip from Sony's PlayStation 3. The deal between the publisher and format holder will mark the first time that Sony's Cell processor has been used commercially... Read more...

FCC Says No To Cell Phones On Airplanes, But Europe Says Yes

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:03:37 +0000

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin announced that his agency would give up looking into whether to approve the use of cell phones on airplanes. An opposite situation is underway in Europe, however, where regulatory... Read more...

IBM Produces Cell Processor Using New Fabrication Technology

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:18:48 +0000

IBM has started production of Cell microprocessors using a new fabrication process, which effectively cuts down the cost of the chips. "The company has begun producing a new, 65nm version of the Cell Broadband Engine... Read more...

Samsung Reveals Ultrathin Cell Phone

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:17:31 +0000

At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Samsung Electronics unveiled three ultrathin phones as part of the Ultra II family; the U100 is the slimmest one - just 5.9 millimetres thick. All three, the... Read more...

Sony to Consider Outsourcing Cell Production

Joe Cashman — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:37:27 +0000

Sony executive Yutaka Nakagawa has unveiled plans to cut the costs incurred from manufacturing Cell chips for the PlayStation 3 by outsourcing their production. Over the last three years, Sony has invested US$ 3.8 billion... Read more...

Portable DAVE Drive Connects To Cell Phones Wirelessly

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:28:15 +0000

At this week's DEMO 07 conference in Palm Desert, California, Seagate announced a new portable hard drive dubbed DAVE (Digital Audio Video Experience) that connects wirelessly to your mobile phone via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Available... Read more...

Researchers Build Memory Chip The Size Of A Blood Cell

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:35:53 +0000

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have created a memory circuit, built by a joint Caltech-UCLA team, the size of a white blood cell with a 160 kilobit capacity. Caltech researchers say the 160,000... Read more...

Cell Companies to Replace 1.3 Million Batteries

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:38:24 +0000

NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi Electric are planning to replace around 1.3 million batteries manufactured by Sanyo Electric because they may overheat and catch fire, the companies said today. The batteries were manufactured before June 2006... Read more...

Fuel cell technology not ready for rapid commercialization?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:31:47 +0000

Mass adoption of notebook-use direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) systems may start in 2010-2011, said Kamal Shah, mobility enabling initiative manager of Intel's mobile platforms group, on the sidelines of the Taiwan International Small Fuel... Read more...

Cell Phones to Report Real Time Traffic Information

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:36:38 +0000

There are two companies who say they have a system that can monitor traffic on roads and highways. They say their systems are based on tracking the signals of cellphones that are inside cars while... Read more...

Sony Asks: Is the Cell Smarter Than You

Joe Cashman — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:59:02 +0000

Sony have updated their playb3yond website with some very interesting videos, it seems like the Sony marketing machine is starting to go into full swing. On the site are two well constructed videos that look... Read more...

Don't keep secrets on a cell phone!

Steven Parker — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:32:43 +0000

Thanks Synthetic Girl for posting this in Back Page News. Don't tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them. Second-hand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers and bank account... Read more...

Taiwan to commercialize consumer fuel cell products

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:03:47 +0000

Taiwan-based startup Antig Technology plans to commercialize its direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology later this year. The company will formally announce its first DMFC product in the third quarter. Shipments are planned to start... Read more...

Splinter Cell Double Agent Website Opens

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:10:59 +0000

Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced the launch of the official Web site for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent. Available at https://www.splintercell.com – the only place to get your... Read more...

Strike Force: Red Cell gets a publisher

Todd Tanner — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:57:36 +0000

Strike Force: Red Cell, the UT2004 mod offshoot from Vision Studios has now secured a publisher for the game. The game will be released sometime in 2006 (though if you look closely 2007 is mentioned... Read more...

New Images From Upcoming Splinter Cell Game

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:36:17 +0000

The guys over at Kotaku have obtained three new images from the upcoming Splinter Cell: Double Agent game. These images seem to be cut from a video sequence in the game. Is he smiling in... Read more...