Entries tagged with cellphones - Channel 10

Upload to the Web from Your Phone

sarahintampa — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:47:00 GMT

A new mobile application called CellSpin lets you create video, audio, photos, and text on your cell phone and upload that content to your favorite social networking web sites and communities. From the phone, you just pick one of the four media types you want to create and then, with one click, you upload the content to the web. At launch, CellSpin supported Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, flickr, LiveJournal, Live Spaces, and eBay. When you sign up at CellSpin, you will receive an SMS on your phone with a link to download the software unless you have signed up from an unsupported phone. With your CellSpin username and password, you can begin uploading content as to the web as soon as the app is installed. You can also upload content from the CellSpin website itself.

A look behind Windows Embedded

Larry — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:18:00 GMT

This week the Windows Embedded group released Windows Embedded 6.0 and Scott Davis invited me over to talk about gadgets, where things are going, and why you may not have as many cables in the future. Embedded systems are quickly becoming the norm, from digital picture frames and remote controls in your living room to the GPS in your car. In coming years, our gadgets will update over the Internet, communicate with each other, notify us of state by text message, and let us use them from a distance.

Scott also brought a very cool Neonode N2 (upper right in the screenshot at left.) It's a mini cellphone with a touch screen and tactile feedback. As you gesture to navigate the menus, you get a nice thump or vibration to confirm your choice.

Microsoft and Ford Sync up

Larry — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:30:00 GMT

You may remember back in January when Microsoft announced a partnership with Ford to collaborate on a way to control your mobile devices while behind the wheel via voice. Sync works with most Bluetooth-enabled phones and popular media devices (full list here).

For $395 (the same price as racing stripes on the Mustang) Sync will allow you to place calls by name, read incoming text messages, call out playlist names to your media player, or even ask it what it's playing. Detroit Free Press reporter Sarah Webster took Sync for a 2-day spin and it's an interesting read. She came away calling Sync a first step in "something potentially life changing."

Sync is a respectable little device with a 400Mhz processor and is open to developers which I think is the best feature, because the future of Sync will driven by consumer demand and the imagination of developers. Sync is available in a number of 2008 Fords, Mercury, and Lincolns, which are hitting the showrooms now. You can find out more about Sync at Ford's site www.SyncMyRide.com.