FCC quietly changes guidance on cellphone radiation risks, further isolates San Francisco law
Here's something that'll surely send Birthers and Roswellians into a tizzy. The FCC quietly changed its long-standing recommendation that consumers concerned with cellphone radiation should purchase phones with lower SAR levels -- SAR meaning Specific Absorption Rate or the rate at which at which energy is absorbed by the body. The revision to the FCC website was made last week without any formal announcement.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cellphone radiation, emissions, energy, entry, exceed-the-fcc, fcc, quietly-changed, quietly-changes, san-francisco, sar, source-familiar, specific absorption rate
T-Mobile’s new charger line is surprisingly interesting: fast, extra port, integrated cord management
We know what you're thinking: what could possibly be cool about a simple micro-USB charger? Well, lots of things, turns out -- and T-Mobile's latest three-pack of aftermarket chargers might just be worth the cost of admission over the standard wall wart your phone's manufacturer tossed in the box.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: admission, admission-over, available-now, energy, energy-star, entry, micro-usb, microusb, ports, rating
Intel reaches for the ‘smartphone zone’ with Moorestown-based Atom Z6, comes up shorthanded
We've seen the future of Intel's mobile platform, and it isn't all roses and sunshine. Three years after the chipmaker told us Moorestown would reduce Atom's energy consumption by a factor of 20 , company execs told us earlier today that they've more than reached that goal with the new Z6xx series
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: atom z6xx, battery-life, energy, energyconsumption, entry, execs, intelatom, netbook, powerconsumption, smartphone, smartphones, system-on-a-chip, time
Samsung Restore coming to Sprint, has its eye on saving the world
Looking for a landscape QWERTY slider that's 84 percent recyclable? Well, you've pretty much pigeonholed yourself into the Samsung Restore, Sprint's latest in a line of eco-friendly devices that kicked off in earnest with the Reclaim last year.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Compliant, energy, engadget, entry, handsets, landscape, megapixel, mobile, open, phone, qwerty, restore, world
Ventev EcoCharge whacks vampire draw, charges two devices for the price of one
Thought AT&T's Zero charger was going to cruise along with no competition? No sirree
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: charger, ctia 2010, ecocharge, energy, energy-star, entry, kills-the-power, vampire draw, vampiredrain, ventev
Categories: Android Tags: AllInOne, compatibility, Compliant, Copier, DeskJet, energy, F2430, Hewlett, Inkjet, Packard, printer, scanner, star, windows
The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home (video)
Those two blocks can power the average high-consumption American home -- one block can power the average European home. At least that's the claim being made by K.R.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: already-several, bloom box, chemical, clean-energy, customers, energy, generator, greenenergy, k.r. sridhar, staples
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How many oranges does it take to charge an Apple? (video)
We've seen lemons power a digital clock , and we've seen an Orange tent energize a gaggle of Apples. But have you ever wondered how many oranges it would take to charge just a single Apple?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apple-iphone, apples, Clock, does-it-take, energy, far-hungrier, jaffa
Talk Back » Blog Archive » HEARD ON THE STREET: Googling For Trouble
But Apple is a hardware manufacturer. Google is not. Google cast its mobile- phone design as an experiment.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, Phone Street Tags: apple, development, energy, internet, latin-america, market-talk, Mobile Phone, street, street-journal, technology, tell-it-to-al, washington