A new beta version of Nokia Email is available. According to the Nokia Beta Labs blog post, the new version of the app is localized with added support for international characters and allows users to get mail from up to 6 email addresses, each in its own mailbox “yet all in one place.” In addition, [...]

Samsung JACK i616 in Merlot color is now available through Rogers Wireless. The strange thing, though, is that the device on the website has Fido branding. Ok, we know Rogers is the owner of Fido, but why on earth they used the image of the device with Fido’s logo is beyond me. It’s not a [...]

Fans of Pandora’s free Internet radio service who are at the same time Sprint Instinct owners can now “find new music” using nothing but their all-touchscreen device. The service costs $3 a month, which is not that much considering you can stream hours of music. As a matter of fact, Pandora costs that much for [...]

With geeks all over the world testing the supremacy of technology and pushing its frontiers, simple yet useful devices are going through a major facelift. An innovation of today becomes an object of daily use in a matter of few years. This time, it’s the turn of lighting devices. General Electric Co. has come up [...]

The upcoming HTC T8290 smartphone is specially designed for Russia’s Yota WiMAX network. The handset supports WIMAX and offers a 3.8 inch display (800 x 480), 802.11g Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, and GSM. No word on pricing or availability at this time

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed the ‘Vocal Joystick’ software, which allows disabled people to use computers in a better way. The software allows the computer to be driven by sound, in pace of the conventional functioning mouse. The difference between the Vocal Joystick and other technologies is that it does not use [...]

When we think “wireless headset” we’re usual conjure up images of Bluetooth headsets and headphones beaming phones calls and music to our ears. Nikon’s Media Port UP headset looks to change our notion of what a “headset” can do.

Welcome all to Episode 3 of The Signal!
The BlackBerry Storm came rolling in this week, complete with a 90% chance of advertisements from both Verizon and Vodafone. The next BlackBerry Curve, model number 8900, also peeked its head out on T-Mobile Germany. We also take a minute to fawn over HTC’s WiMAX version of the [...]

Researchers at the University of Tohoku have launched a display that is manufactured with a special resin sheet and to which images can be projected from behind. It could also be used as a TV just by attaching the sheet to a glass or transparent plastic plate. The highlight of the display is that it [...]

With the CDMA evolution pathway coming to a veritable dead-stop in the next few years, it’s been safe to assume that CDMA carriers in North America would be jumping on board the 4G LTE bandwagon in the next decade. There’s been much speculation about Telus and Bell Canada adopting the GSM evolution pathway for their [...]