Facebook Fun Goes Mobile with iPhone Applications
March 25, 2009
Social-networking site Facebook is letting its users play together on the road by using Apple's popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. For the first time, your iPhone apps can now have friends," said Dave Morin, Facebook's Senior Platform Manager.
Facebook Connect for the iPhone debuted with nine applications available at Apple's online iTunes store and a promise that more will launch in coming days.
Mini software programs tailored to mesh with the Facebook operating platform let social-networking service users play games with each other online, share restaurant reviews while on the move and locate friends.
Facebook members can use the community-oriented applications through iPhones as they would if they were connecting through a home computer.
Facebook launched Connect last year as a way to break down the walls between the social networking service and other websites and services on the Internet.
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Verizon Wireless CDM-8975 Push-to-Talk Clamshell Launched
March 6, 2009
Verizon Wireless today launched the CDM-8975, a push-to-talk clamshell with 3G high-speed Internet access.
Verizon Wireless CDM-8975
Packaged in an industrial clamshell design, the handset offers fast two-way communication through Verizon Wireless' push-to-talk network.
Users can access the Internet through high-speed Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) network.
The CDM-8975 also supports VZ Navigator with access to audible turn-by-turn maps, directions and millions of data points that can help customers find locations.
The phone supports Bluetooth technology, a 1.3-megapixel digital camera with video recording capabilities, voice commands, voice activated dialing and a stereo speaker.
Customers can stay entertained with VCAST Music with Rhapsody and VCAST Video services.
The Verizon Wireless CDM-8975 is available through business sales channels today for $100 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement. It will be available online and in stores beginning March 9.
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Japan Mobile Phone Goes 3D with Special Screen
March 5, 2009
Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has developed a mobile phone with an innovative 3D screen that seemingly floats images from its 3.1-inch liquid crystal display. The Hitachi Wooo H001 uses technology to take advantage of how the human mind understands depth and spacing. By sending a slightly different image to each eye, the 3D handset creates the illusion of 3D, almost like a miniature hologram -- the same as how 3D movies and TVs work.
While some 3D movies require special glasses to shut out the image meant for the other eye, the Wooo comes with its own invisible barriers packed inside the screen to ensure the same effect.
The Wooo H001 went on sale last month in Japan for 50,000 yen ($510). There are no plans to sell the handset in the United States and other overseas markets.
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