These days, more and more gadgets keep getting integrated into cell phones. First it was MP3 music players, then PDAs, still cameras, video cameras, and GPS. Now a Santa Clara company called OmniVision has announced the OV14810, an image sensor that uses BackSide Illumination to decrease the amount of light required to get a good [...]
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Google just released its own phone, the Nexus One, this week. Google has had a mobile phone software platform, Android, available for a while now, and a number of cell phone companies are using it on their phones. But this is the first time Google has come out with a consumer hardware device. (Note: It [...]
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The New York Times is carrying an article about what cellular carries aren’t telling you about texting. Basically, there isn’t a separate channing for texting vs. voice call traffic between towers and phones. Rather, the same channel that’s already there to set up phone calls is used to send the 160-character messages. Apparently, the messages [...]
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eWeek is reporting that notebook sales have passed desktop sales for the first time. In the last quarter of 2008, 38.6 million units of notebooks shipped compared to 38.5 million desktops. One of the problems with mobile computers, though, is they’re easy pickings for theft, which has reached a hundred thousand per year for notebooks. [...]
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