Taxi Hold'em

Taxi Hold'em is the perfect app to use when trying to get hold
of a cab. When you tilt your iPhone horizontally, it flashes a catching "TAXI" sign in black and yellow. Taxi Hold'em makes sure that cab stops just for you.

Official Taxi Hold'em instruction video from iSignz on Vimeo.

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After conquering the farthest corners of the globe, mobile phones are now destined for the final frontier - space.

Even in the cosmos there will be no escaping the ringtone as Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) prepare to trial a mobile phone network for the moon.

Based initially around a space probe called MoonLITE (Moon Lightweight Interior and Telecoms Experiment). This device will fire probes into the lunar surface and use mobile phone protocols to initially send information to our planet on earthquake activity. It’s designed to further our progress in exploring moon activity, but additionally will also allow robots and astronauts to communication with each other during the construction of an international moon colony, planned for 2020.

source: silicon.com

Introducing Ubuntu Mobile - full Internet, no compromise

Here come the LiMo Phones, watch out iPhone with your closed system...

Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices.
Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world's most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing.

Ubuntu Mobile, a fully open source project, gives full Internet, with no compromise. Custom options may include licensed codecs and popular third-party applications.

• Full Web 2.0/AJAX fidelity, with custom options of Adobe Flash®, Java, and more
• Outstanding media playback so you can enjoy videos, music and photos with superior quality and easy navigation
• A suite of applications that work seamlessly to meet every need of a digital parent, student or anyone who is on-the-go
• Facebook®, MySpace®, YouTube®, Dailymotion®, 3D games, GPS, maps, in short, the full Web 2.0 experience delivered into your hands as a compact and powerful device that's easy and fun to use

The product of Canonical collaboration with Intel® and the open source community, Ubuntu Mobile is the software that makes it all possible.

Microsoft Patents Killer Mobile Stalking Application

Does this not reek of stalker heaven?

An interesting patent has surfaced today indicating that Microsoft might be planning to enter the mobile dating industry.
The patent, entitled Image-Based Face Search details how Microsoft could be developing complex facial recognition software. The patent explains how a photo could be uploaded from a mobile phone or PC and compared with millions of other pictures to find similar matching faces.

Take someone's photo, upload and find out who they are...


... via flickr, facebook, etc.


source: Dial-a-Phone

Rugged Tablet with 3G & GPS built in!

Roper Mobile Technology unveiled a new rugged tablet PC today called the Duros. Duros is a Windows XP based tablet PC sealed to IP-65 levels for dust and water and is manufactured to MILSPEC 810F.

The screen is an 8.4-inch sunlight viewable SVGA with resistive touch capability. The processor in the system is either a Geode LX 800 or an Intel Celeron M 1GHz. The system can have up to 1GB of RAM and 120GB of storage space. A 64Gb SSD is optional and the battery is hot swappable.

Connectivity options for the system include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and optional built-in GPS. Operating temperatures for the system are -20C to 50C and Roper says the machine can withstand a 4-foot drop onto concrete.

Google: iPhone traffic dominates mobile search

Web services giant Google this week said Apple's iPhone is responsible for 50 times the number of mobile searches of any rival handset, with Google's mobile head Vic Gundotra forecasting that mobile search will soon overtake traditional web search if other device makers make mobile web access as user-friendly. Speaking to The Financial Times, Gundotra said he first assumed the iPhone search data was a mistake: "[We] made our engineers check the logs again," he said.