Archive for the 'Mobile Phones' Category

Finally a use for Video Phones

Video calling has never taken off despite a long history of attempts starting in 1955, and culminating in today’s front-facing cameras on 3G handsets.  But finally someone has worked out a useful application: signing for the hearing impaired. 
The technology behind it compresses data with attention to skin tones (hands/face) as that’s what is conveying the important [...]

Rent-a-Crowd, Apple Style

Just spotted this on the excellent Register:
Actors paid to queue for Poland’s iPhone launch
Mobile phone carrier Orange Poland admitted today that it hired actors to stand in line for the country’s iPhone debut.
“It was a part of our marketing strategy, the concept was thought up at Orange Poland,” the company told the Associated Press. “The [...]




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