Last fall he launched March Networks to go after the web-phone wave.
But UMPCs cost nearly twice what the Foleo will sell for, making Palm's 2.5-pound Web-surfing and phone-syncing device seem like a bargain.
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Generic mobile app , which are mobile web sites designed to match every web-enabled phone, like the Wikipedia mobile page.
The idea is that you can keep a dish cool in an oven that doubles as a refrigerator for several hours during the day, then set it to defrost and bake using a timer--making any changes from a PC or Web-enabled phone.
Geeksphone has already shipped more than 10, 000 devices tailored to run Firefox OS, the new web-based mobile phone platform coded by Mozilla, to developers.
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They are also worried that a new kind of rival, such as mobile-phone operators or web-based portals, may be able to operate more cheaply and with less supervision.
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But while the iPhone is built to do it all--movies, music, phone calls and the Web--the MacBook Air will have far more limited appeal.
The Act demands that organisations it dubs Communication Service Providers (CSP) - broadly anyone that helps people keep in touch via the web, fax machine or phone - install technology that can automatically monitor what many of their customers are doing.
It can also provide likely e-mail address, phone numbers and personal Web sites--and then use this information to add a new layers to the investigation.
To cut down on those costs, the USPS created a self-service Web site and set up a phone line with voice-recognition software, either one of which lets users reset passwords on their own.
In recent months brands including Buick, Kraft and Walmart and have been building "M sites"--mobile phone-ready versions of their Web sites.
These new directions are possible because the Sense experience is now web-based as well as phone-based.
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Linked to a digital network, this thin, gray device promises moves the champ can't yet match -- high-speed Web browsing, phone calls, shopping and games (once such things are available).
The longer it takes them to figure out how to process, for example, a discarded Treo 600--a 32-megabyte gadget with phone, e-mail, Web access, an organizer and a camera--the less ReCellular will be able to resell it for.
Unlike the Journal's Web site, or its smart-phone apps, the iPad version blends much more of the look and feel of the print paper into the electronic environment.
Currently, the only Apple-approved way to get a program onto the iPhone is through a Web application that works on the phone's built-in Internet browser.
Spark allows you to control your lights from an Apple iPhone, Android phone, or any web-enabled device, so you can control your lights remotely, from your bed or anywhere in the world.
Earlier this month, a test conducted by the Leviathan Security Group showed that even "no-permissions" Android apps can access potentially sensitive data on your phone -- and transmit that data elsewhere via your phone's Web browser.
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For the government, a warrant isn't currently required after a certain period of time for older information -- e-mail, social networking profiles or cell-phone location data -- stored "in the cloud" on Web servers.
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In short, 100 percent of the time, the phone was able to complete web-page loads, stationary downloads, and stationary uploads.
Google Voice users in the US can place outbound calls from their cell phone app, from the web-based application, or by dialing their Google Voice number.
Because DirecPC is still tethered to phone-line modems for Web page and e-mail requests, I must dial into my regular Internet service provider to get started online.
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Those phone companies have encroached on cable's turf by entering the pay-TV business and are positioning themselves to offer a "quadruple play" of services that includes landline phone, high-speed Web access, cellphone, and video.
"That is in the form of an on board exercise video, exercises demonstrated in our in-flight magazine, a healthy journey information leaflet, and information on our website, with dedicated-to-health web pages, and over the phone, " she concluded.
The idea is that you can hold and drag just about any content on the phone -- places, web pages, pictures, people -- to The Spot (a dark circle appears in the center when it's holding content), and then tap it to send the content on to your friends via the service of your choice.
Pinched wallets are putting the so-called feature phone--which includes a camera, Bluetooth, text messaging and Web surfing capabilities--at risk, says Avi Greengart, research director of mobile devices at Current Analysis.
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