LONDON - Samsung is launching an integrated promotional drive to back the UK launch of its F110 Adidas phone, which is being positioned as a rival to the Nike+ training system.
The F110 handset, which is designed for fitness fanatics, features a heartbeat monitor and a step counter, as well as an MP3 player. It is understood that Samsung will market...
More information about Adidas to take on Nike+ with branded handsetHANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - She may be Germany's most prominent woman, but Chancellor Angela Merkel found Vodafone's new image search software could not identify her.
"I am not in the database," Merkel said when testing Vodafone's Otello, a search engine that uses images instead of words, at the CeBIT technology trade fair in Hanover on Tuesday.
"That's a major gap -- please update," Merkel quipped.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Tata
Communications, a leading global provider of a new world
of communications, has selected Telsima Corporation, a
global player in WiMAX systems to provide WiMAX solutions
for Tata Communications broadband wireless network in
India. Tata Communications is the first to launch broadband
services on the WiMAX platform on a large scale for retail
consumers in India.
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Instead of entering a word or phrase users send pictures via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) from their mobile phones.
The picture can be anything from a historical building to a CD cover, according to Vodafone. Otello then returns information relevant to the picture to the mobile phone, just like a normal search engine.
Vodafone's reasoning behind image search is that it's more convenient to take a picture than to enter search terms with a phone that lacks a normal keyboard.
Starting Monday Vodafone is conducting a trial with German paper Bild. Readers can find out more about specially-marked articles by photographing them with their mobile phone camera and sending the image to Bild.
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You might think Ford's Sync is just a great hands-free voice-activated cellphone and iPod controller, but Microsoft has big plans for the software it wrote to make Sync work.
It wants to bring voice-activated network connectivity to your car. And use in-car advertising to pay for it. Microsoft is betting we'll have networked integrated entertainment and information systems within five years, and it wants Microsoft Auto to be the operating system they run on.
More information about Microsoft Wants Sync to Control Much More than GadgetsIn 2001, Oklahoma Christian launched a mobile computing initiative. This campus-wide 1-to-1 mobile computing program was the first in the state of Oklahoma and one of very few throughout the nation. Over the last six years, this program has helped to ensure that students have the technology necessary to combine digital fluency with the strengths of a liberal arts education.
Today, Oklahoma Christian University continues to look toward the future and the role of technology in teaching and learning. Understanding the technology needs and expectations of students and faculty continues to be the key to the success of this mobile learning initiative.
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