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Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.


Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original (AP)

Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use.


Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police (AP)

Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police

Technology / Other

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion.


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Wikileaks releases pager intercepts from 9/11

Technology / Internet

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Whistleblower website Wikileaks began publishing on Wednesday what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.


A woman uses her mobile phone near a share prices board in Tokyo

Mobile multimedia revenues tipped to dethrone text

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday.


Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline (AP)

Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline

Technology / Internet

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.


The number of text messages that a mobile user in S.Korea can send out a day has been restricted to 500, down from 1,000

S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.


'Digging into Data Challenge' grant awarded

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 22 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A professor at Tufts University will lead a team of international researchers to explore how humanities scholars can use data analysis to track topics about the Greco-Roman world as they appear in a million documents, spanning ...