AT&T Set to Offer Qualcomm Service To Broadcast Live Video to Cellphones

AT&T Inc. in May plans to begin offering a long-awaited mobile-TV service, using a Qualcomm Inc. network called MediaFlo that broadcasts live video to cellphones.

Zambia: Mobile Phones to the Rescue

Satellite Communication equipment including phones have arrived in Zambia to help several thousand flood-affected people access aid in time.

Twenty-five Thuraya hand-held sets satellite phones and mobile Immarsat Global Area terminals or devices which offer voice, fax and data services will be given to identified officials or community leaders to help coordinate rescue and relief efforts.

Street journalism: transmitting live video footage from your camera phone

Leading bloggers already participate in street journalism by streaming live video footage of them attending conferences and of the supporters of American presidential election candidates, which they send to MTV online campaigns.

Camera phone buying guide

Cameras in mobile phones are well past being a low-grade gimmick. The quality of camera phone images has increased significantly, and the sheer convenience makes cameras an indispensable feature in mobile phones today.

New 3-D Camera Will Have 12,616 Lenses

Science Daily (Mar. 19, 2008) — The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat, two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras placed apart from each other) can take more interesting 3-D photos.

Concept Phone with Adjacent Cameras

Designed by Paris-based Lysandre Follet, this unusual dual-camera handset is designed for multi-tasking functionality, claims Motorola. Users can click pictures with one camera while they can shoot with the other one. Also, two separate flashes can be used together at one go.

LG Launches `Touch-Web’ Mobile Phone

LG Electronics has come up with touch-based multimedia handsets in a bid to take a bigger stake in the promising global touch-screen mobile segment.

Cell camera turned medical microscope

Say you're in a remote or undeveloped part of the world, and you have to diagnose an illness. Even if you could find a microscope, you don't have a doctor to look through it, but you do have a cell phone.

Mobile phone sales hit new record in Japan

Handset sales in 2007 marked a gain of 10.7 percent from the previous year. The sales broke the previous annual record of 48.7 million handsets in 2003, when customers snapped up new handsets featuring cameras.

Samsung announces world's thinnest 8 megapixel cellphone module

Measuring just 8.5-mm thin, you're looking at what Samsung claims to be the slimmest CMOS camera module of its kind. The 8 megapixel module is expected to supplant the 5 megapixel job found in todays top-end cameraphones sometime in the second half of the year.

Send a Video Message to the Presidential Candidates’ Cell Phones

Start-up Mogreet, out of Venice Beach, Calif., which recently launched a service that lets people send personalized video messages to cell-phones, is empowering the U.S. population by letting them send video messages to the presidential candidates’ cell phones.

EU backs Nokia standard for mobile TV

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission moved to simplify the nascent mobile phone TV sector by adopting a standard backed by Finland's Nokia. The Commission said setting the Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) as the preferred European Union standard would give the industry a boost.

Flash Lite and Reader LE for Windows Mobile phones

"Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite software, Adobe's award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content within the Internet Explorer Mobile browser in future versions of Microsoft Windows Mobile phones.

Report: Phones to outsell TV sets in 2008

The Dublin, Ireland-based firm predicts that 300 million such phones that can play audio and video and browse the Internet will be sold in 2008. Its new report, "Mobile Media 2008: The Third Screen for Entertainment," also found that half the world's population, or 3.3 billion people, now have a mobile phone subscription.

Kodak sees picture of future in high-quality camera phones

Camera phones are increasingly ubiquitous. The number in the United States leaped from 48 million in November 2005 to 132 million in November 2007, according to the research firm M:Metrics.The number of digital cameras in the country hit 106 million in 2007, according to the Photo Marketing Association.

Cell phones to ring up sales even in time of recession

Even with fears of a recession looming, the cell phone has become an item that most Americans can't seem to forgo. Eighty percent of the population carries a mobile device, according to industry figures.

Tessera Introduces OptiML UFL Technology for Camera Phone Modules

The OptiML UFL solution is a significant addition to Tessera's portfolio of image enhancement solutions, as it addresses the growing challenge of image quality in next-generation mobile devices.

Mobile to Hit $1 Trillion in 2008, Says Portio Research

A new report from Portio Research confidently predicts that the worldwide mobile industry will be worth USD 1 trillion by the close of 2008.

62% of Adult American Used Mobile Data or Web, Says Pew Internet

Pew Internet reports overall, 62% of adult Americans have either accessed the internet with a wireless connection away from home or work or used a non-voice data application using their cell phone or PDA, according to the Pew Internet Project's December 2007 survey.

Vodafone Shows Image Search for Mobile Phones

The picture can be anything from a historical building to a CD cover, according to Vodafone. Otello then returns information relevant to the picture to the mobile phone, just like a normal search engine.

Americans love cell phones more than TV and landlines

For the first time, Americans reported their love for their mobile phones trumped both their feelings for television and landline phones, according to a survey released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

CeBIT 2008: Vodafone demos "Otello" visual search

At the CeBIT show in Germany, Vodafone is demonstrating a trial service called "Otello", which is a search engine that uses images, rather than words.

Rather than use a word as a search term, Otello users can send images via MMS from their mobiles and the search service which then returns the results to the user's phone as an "ordinary" search result.

Traffic watch on your Mobile Phone

MOTORISTS could soon use their mobile phones to see live images of traffic congestion on Melbourne's main roads.
VicRoads is investigating technology to enable motorists to view closed-circuit TV footage and maps showing traffic hotspots.

One in five babies has Social Network Profile

Parents in the UK are increasingly using mobile phones and the internet to both announce and give their babies an online presence in the world, according to research carried out by Orange.

Orange discovered that one in five new parents sent a camera-phone image of their newborn baby to friends and family within 10 minutes of it being born. Meanwhile, up to half took pictures of their babies within an hour. The survey questionned 1,000 new and expectant parents.