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August 28, 2008
2:32
UNICEF Unveils "Bee" for emergency connectivity
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The first two prototypes of a system - called Bee - designed to provide connectivity in emergency situations has successfully tested by UNICEF that includes an FM radio station, WiFi and mobile messaging.

Developed internally by UNICEF Division of Communication and combining off the shelf products, it is being developed to augment relief work done in the first two weeks of an emergency when such technologies are often difficult or impossible to use.

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2:28
Orange Admits To Capping iPhone 3G Speeds
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Maybe its not all Apples fault after all. French wireless carrier Orange has admitted to capping 3G network speeds at 384Kbps for iPhone customers, Apple Insider reports via mocoNews.net
2:06
It's game over for popular 'Tetris' clone
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The No. 1 free download from Apple's App Store, a clever Tetris clone for the iPhone called Tris is no longer available. USA Today reports.

"As of Wednesday, the puzzle game has been removed from the App Store, following a threatening letter received by Apple by The Tetris Company over alleged copyright infringement, says Tris developer Noah Witherspoon.

The disappointed college student writes this on his blog, entitled Two Finger Play.

"I'm afraid it's essentially game over. Do they have a case? No. Not really. I am convinced that if it went to court, the 'copyright' claim would get thrown out completely. The trademark, perhaps not -- but if I changed the name, to e.g. Trys, that would be much harder for them to argue."
August 27, 2008
13:50
'Beautiful mistake' makes China factory worker a celebrity
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The AFP has the lowdown on the Chinese factory worker who become a celebrity after her smiling face was accidentally loaded onto an Apple iPhone and shipped to the other side of the world.

"The unidentified worker flashed a smile and made a peace sign to a co-worker whose job was to test the device's camera in the southern city of Shenzhen, said a spokesman for Foxconn, which assembles the phones for Apple.

The woman's colleague apparently forgot to delete the photo from the phone, which was sold to a consumer in Britain, who posted it on the Internet, Foxconn spokesman Liu Kun told AFP on Wednesday.

He said so far only one phone was known to be affected.

The photo created a stir on Internet forums after the British consumer, who identified himself only as Mark M., shared his discovery on the MacRumors.com website.

Liu said the factory worker was unsettled by the sudden fame after her photo appeared on websites and newspapers, and that her bosses had assured her that her job is safe. He said the company would not release her name or any details.

... One person wrote in an Internet post: "It would be great for every Chinese worker who makes your iPhones to take a snap of herself or her factory friends ... a hello from a person you would never otherwise meet. "
13:37
Longer life
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Sanwa Supply Inc. has introduced a compact rechargeable battery for the iPhone 3G.

According to Nikkei Net Interactive, "the battery adds three and a half hours of talking time to the iPhone's continuous talking time of up to five hours, seven more hours of video playback to the original seven hours, and 36 hours of audio play to the base 24 hours."
13:04
VOIP with Style
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The award winning Tatung VOIP, is one classy phone with aims to making internet phones user friendly, writes Yanko Design.

By Nova Design, its currently on exhibition but hopefully it will go into mass production.
12:48
Obama Transforms Convention Into Recruiting Machine for Voters
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When 76,000 people pack Denver's Invesco Field tomorrow to hear Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech, they'll be called on to get to work. Bloomberg reports.

"The campaign is asking them to text-message friends and urge them to sign on as supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate. It's part of a drive by Obama's team to leave the national convention with hundreds of thousands of new names to add to a database that already includes millions."
12:35
World mobile phone sales growth slowing: survey
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Growth in worldwide sales of mobile telephones will slow sharply in 2008 as consumers face increased economic difficulties, a report by Gartner Research showed on Wednesday.

"The US-based industry research unit predicted 11 percent growth in global sales to 1.28 billion units this year, down from a rise of 16 percent in 2007."

[via AFP]
2:53
Manifesta 7: Tantalum Memorial - Residue
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Régine Debatty is just back from Just back from Manifesta, the seventh edition of a touring art biennale held in Trentino, Italy. She writes up an exhibit related to cell phones on her blog we-make-money-not-art.com.

Tantalum Memorial - Residue, by England-based Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, and Matsuko Yokokoji, is a telephony-based memorial to the people who have died as a result of the tantalum wars in the Congo.

The installation below is constructed out of an old electro-mechanical 1938 Strowger telephone exchange, discovered amongst the remains of the Alumix factory.

The switches are reanimated by tracking the phone calls from Telephone Trottoire - a social telephony network designed by the artists in collaboration with the Congolese radio program Nostalgie Ya Mboka in London. The TT network calls Congolese listeners, plays them a phone message and invites them to record a comment and pass it on to a friend by entering their phone number.

This builds on the traditional Congolese practice of "radio trottoire" or "pavement radio", the passing around of news and gossip on street corners in order to avoid state censorship."
2:16
Cigarette Pack Shaped Earphone Headset
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potted on engadget:mobile, a cigarette pack-shaped handsfree set for Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson cell phones, available at dealextreme.

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