Google eBooks is live: just in case Amazon, B&N, and Apple aren’t enough
You hear about this whole e-books thing? We hear it's gonna be a pretty big deal .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adobe, adobedigitaleditions, digital, e books, epub, gesture, googleeditions, lifestyles, nascent, nook, pdf, progress-synced, sonyreader, stab, trading-on-its
FCC cracks open Sony’s Xperia X8, posts user’s manual and revealing photos
Sure, that Xperia X8 in the picture may look demure, but the FCC doesn't mess around -- mere seconds after we found this shot of the 3-inch, Android 1.6 handset, we stumbled across a PDF showing the phone in -- ahem -- various states of dress. Now, we try to run a clean site here, so you'll have to hit our source link to find those salacious pics (and manual) yourself, but if you want some nice, tasteful shots of the device's exterior and ports you'll find them immediately below. No new specs here, by the way -- it's the same quad-band GSM HSPA handset with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, A-GPS and FM radio we've seen before
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, mediascape, mere-seconds, pdf, photos, revealing, shakira, source, xperia x8
Apple: PDF security hole fix is already ready to go
JailbreakMe brought root to the iPhone 4-wielding masses, but also unearthed a nasty exploit in a PDF font.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: comex, entry, hack, hole, iphone, nasty-exploit, patch, pdf, pdf exploit, reported, security hole, securityhole
JailbreakMe using PDF exploit to hack your iPhone, so could the baddies; Apple looking into reports
As with any jailbreak or rooting of a handset, "hacking" a phone OS is usually exactly that: exploiting a weakness to get unsigned code onto a device. That means that any other hacker, be they sufficiently nefarious, could use that same exploit to mess with your phone in the bad, not-installing-emulators-off-of-Cydia sense.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, exploit, iphone, iphone devteam, mainstream, pdf, phone, until-apple
Pages for iPhone gets a full walkthrough
We've been seeing hints here and there that the iPad versions of Apple's iWork apps will eventually trickle down to the iPhone and iPod touch, and now it looks like we've got some definitive proof: 9to5 Mac has published a thorough screenshot walkthrough of Pages. As you'd expect, it looks a lot like a smaller version of Pages for the iPad, but there are some interesting tidbits here and there: all documents sync over the air with all your iOS devices, there's integration with the oft-forgotten iWork.com, and you can export in .doc and PDF in addition to Pages format. Interesting stuff, to say the least -- hit the read link for the complete set of shots
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, entry, ios, iphone, iwork, pages, pdf, Proof, rumor, Sync, touch
FCC offers ‘simple’ ‘tips’ for avoiding pesky early termination fees
The government is just about the last place we'd look for helpful pointers on much of anything, much less when shopping for a new phone -- but that didn't stop the FCC's Consumer Task Force from whipping up a PDF of things you can to do prevent yourself from getting burned with a multi-hundred dollar early termination fee when buying the handset of your wildest dreams. There's nothing in here that isn't obvious to a seasoned phone buyer -- buy the phone at full price instead, ask about a trial period, look into proration, and so on -- but it goes without saying that these are the kinds of tidbits average consumers should know before setting foot in the store.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: consumers, dreams, etf, fcc, feds, fee, pdf, phone-at-full, pointers, stink-it-made, takes-advantage, tidbits-average, trial, wildest
Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris getting Android 2.1 any time now
We'd been hearing rumors lately that HTC's Droid Eris -- a phone that has never quite made it out from under the Droid's shadow -- is in the midst of being discontinued by Verizon, but the imminent launch of an Android 2.1 update might just buy it a new lease on life. In fact, the update makes this phone just about the first Hero variant anywhere in the world to be graced with an upgrade to Google's latest and greatest stuff, beating Sprint's version thanks to a string of delays that have pushed it out to some unidentified period in the second quarter
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: bugs, droideris, eclair, entry, experiences, hero, imminent-launch, life, midst, motorola, pdf, posted-the-pdf, update, vzw
WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers
Hardly the most exciting Palm news you're gonna hear this week, but the company that still owns itself for the time being has just updated its WebOS software on Verizon to the extremely granular version 1.4.1.1. The helpful changelog informs us there are no new apps, but pinch-zoom now works correctly in Doc and PDF views, a lag in the camera shutter sound has been rectified, and forwarding videos uploaded to YouTube on to your friends via email has also been made to work as it should. The most important fix of all, though, is to a keyboard input issue whereby a single key press would generate a letter twice -- both Pre Central and one of our readers report that this problem appears to have been consigned to the past.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, firmwareupdate, operating-system, os update, palm pre plus, pdf, pixiplus, softwareupdate, Stuff, subzero, update, verizon, webos
Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction
As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far," though apps are also being developed for the iPhone, PC and Mac
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: color, digital publishing, digitalpublishing, life, nokia, pdf, publishers, publishing, reading, reproductions, speech, unveiling
Abstract | The use of mobile phone data for the estimation of the …
Recent studies have shown that anonimized mobile phone records provide a valuable data source for characterizing human movements without compromizing the privacy of phone users. Such movement data in combination with spatial data on P.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: epidemiology, estimation, facebook, google-scholar, journal, log-on-register, malaria-journal, Mobile Phone, pdf, related, research, smith-dl, tatem-aj, travel, zanzibar