Text-message spam may go up this November for voter-age youth.
Turns out that young people are more likely to vote when they receive a text-message reminder, according to a new study published this month by researchers at Princeton University and the University of Michigan.
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The researchers ran …

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A collaboration between military R&D and industrial designers is bringing state-of-the-art PDA technology to Joe Snuffy out on the battlefield.
The Soldier Flex PDA (SFPDA) introduced by Inhand Electronics features flexible display technology with input from industrial design firm Artisent, display technology firm E-Ink and the U.S. Army Flexible Display Center …

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Google is launching AdSense for Mobile, which will allow marketers to place contextual ads on sites viewed via mobile devices. The company has been running mobile ads through its auction-based AdWords program since mid-2006. Now it will be automatically converting AdWords ads to text ads that will appear when someone …

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Here’s a useful concept: say you’re really sick of dealing with your phone’s tiny keypad to type in text messages. What if you could simply say what you wanted to write down, and have the tool fill it in for you? Yap is a new service that’…

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RIM BlackBerry Pearl gold
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It’s not the RIM BlackBerry Pearl 2 that most of you are probably waiting for, but T-Mobile and RIM have just released three new color models of the BlackBerry Pearl. In addition to black and white, you can now get the sexy little …

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Palm Treo 500v
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As scheduled, Palm announced a new product today for our friends across the pond: the Palm Treo 500v. Available in charcoal gray or glacier white, the smart phone sports a new, slimmer design (4.3 inches high by 2.4 inches wide by 0.6 …

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A portal to mobile-configured Web sites is all you get with Frog.
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From the many positive announcements written about Frog since May 2007, a fresh, interesting approach to accessing the mobile Web shouldn’t have exceeded expectations, especially six months after the initial release. After all, GeekSugar, MobileCrunch, and The Boy Genius Report all gave […]

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Ooooweee–those are some pretty enticing photos. It seems Engadget Mobile got its hands on some marketing material from Sprint about the carrier’s upcoming portfolio of smart phones and cell phones for Q4, and if true, we think a lot of Sprint customers will be pleased by …

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Reports of users being temporarily cut off from BlackBerry service have been popping up on the Web.

BlackBerry users who are also customers of Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon complained of slow e-mail or completely interrupted mobile data service. Corporate customers of Research In Motion did not seem to be affected.
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Palm
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Mark your calendars, my friends. On September 12, Palm will be making an announcement about a “new device” from their friends “across the pond.” Eh? Well, we certainly know it’s not going to be the Foleo. According to Palm employee Stephanie Richardson’s blog, the news …

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AT&T’s BlackBerry 8820 has been officially announced today, packing both GPS and Wi-Fi under the hood and hitting store shelves tomorrow. The 8820 will also be coming bundled with AT&T’s Mobile Music, which gives access to XM Satellite Radio, among other music services. You’ll have to fork over $299.99 on a two-year contract for this […]

Even though AT&T might be paying homage to Cingular with a change to orange for their logo, they certainly don’t want anything more to do with the Cingular name. BlackBerry e-mail addresses under the mycingular.blackberry.net domain are about to be kindly booted over to att.blackeberry.net, according to Russ. The switches will be happening throughout October […]