A cell gets out, and it will imitate everything! — The Thing

South Korea has ratified a voice-over-WiMAX standard, reports IntoMobile. The new protocol, approved by the Korea Communication Commission (KCC), is essentially a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology. South Korea’s WiBro has been a data-only system since going live in 2006.
Now Korea Telecom [...]

Here’s some festive holiday revelry from The Richter Scales:

Their “Here Comes Another Bubble,” won a Webby Award. Can I get you another eggnog?

Here’s some festive holiday revelry from The Richter Scales:

Their “Here Comes Another Bubble,” won a Webby Award. Can I get you another eggnog?

The SkyCrawler is a radio-controlled helicopter by Excalibur that will protect your backyard from threats foreign and domestic.
The $49 R/C helicopter features twin electric motors pushing a top speed of 20 kilometers per hour, a maximum flying height of 90 feet, and a wireless range of 160 feet. A built-in flight-stabilizer keeps it [...]

Laptop Magazine says Intel’s new Convertible Classmate, a tablet-PC like device, will live alongside its clamshell Classmate PC (also known as the CTL 2go PC).

The Convertible Classmate will apparently make its debut at the upcoming CES in January. The convertible features a 8.9-inch swivel screen that can be operated by touch. The [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the White House are opposing the FCC’s plan to promote free wireless Internet, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

The Journal reported that Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez sent a letter Wednesday saying that the White House wants the airwaves auctioned without price or product mandate. He [...]

Novatel’s Mi-Fi is a battery operated device that connects to either an EV-DO Rev. A or HSPA signal and then shares its connection via Wi-Fi. Novatel says it will deliver four hours of continuous use per charge, or forty hours on standby.

Novatel says it can simply be put down, turned on, and connected. [...]

iPhone sales have exceeded Windows Mobile sales for first time, says Gartner’s latest analysis of the global smartphone industry.

Nokia is maintaining its first place status with 42.4% market share. RIM came in second with it’s BlackBerry phone sales up an amazing 81.7% in Q3. Apple regained its No. 3 position in the global smartphone [...]

Nokia has announced a new flagship smart phone, the N97, in Barcelona on Tuesday.
The N97 combines a touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Web-based widgets, GPS, high-speed Internet and even Flash video. The bulky phone houses a powerful ARM11 processor, a 5-megapixel camera with 640 x 480 video recording, 32 Gbytes of on-board memory [...]