Since Fidel Castro is not president anymore, some things have changed under his brother Rául Castro. Cubans are now allowed to buy computers, TV sets, and video recorders. These devices have to be paid with the Cuban foreign exchange currency Peso Convertible which is 24 times more expensive than the normal currency. A DVD player [...]

The Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (German Working Group on Data Retention) is fighting against the new law on telecommunications data retention in Germany which came into force on January 1st, 2008. The working group organizes specific activities and events that are supposed to make the data retention impossible. At the beginning of 2008, they organized a SIM [...]

German Ministry of Transport Allows Mobile Phone Usage in Planes
One relaxing advantage the plane has had up to now, compared to other means of transport: you couldn’t be unnerved neither by too loud headphones nor by music-like noises from mobile phone speakers of minors. Any gadget just had to stay turned off.
This in the true [...]

Australian study reveals astounding findings
Trouble maker. Gadfly. Money pit. Disturber. Bugger. There are many terms for mobile phones and just as many reproaches behind them. Up to now also academic research has acted on the assumption that the mobile not only creates blessing and security but makes e.g. work intrude into leisure time and [...]

February was filled with events of the mobile phone industry – the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, which at the same time was the frame for the presentation of the International Mobile Gaming Awards. At the Independent Games Festival at San Francisco a lot of awards were handed out, too.

Not only Mobile [...]

In a current study of TNS Emnid ordered by the German mobile phone provider E-Plus, the mobile usage in January 2008 was compared to that in January 2007. 1.052 mobile phone users in all were interviewed.
Percentage of the mobile users who use their mobile phone to…
… surf: 13.7% (previous year: 4.0%)
… download music: 15.2% (previous [...]

The new killer application for mobile – it seems to be definite. Experts are in agreement. There’s no talk of Mobile TV, which indeed in Germany has received impetus during the last months, but has moved no small number of subscribers to dissatisfaction and so to a fast termination. There’s talk of GPS, short for [...]

Microsoft tout for Yahoo!. One of the biggest acquisitions in the internet chronicles looms. Naturally there are many speculations and in the spotlight what associate both companies and what are their chances to compete Google. Additional there leaves a question about the destination of the brand Yahoo and what will remain of it after that [...]

They are holding the wolf by the ears. They are not the money spinners like the ringtones had been some years ago. They are in a loop. For them, the mobile games, it hasn’t been easy to stand steadily during the last weeks, among all these staggering and commiserative words.
„Having started with high hopes [...]

Gamer’s And Workaholic’s Dream
Notebooks have turned inside out the lives of paper pushers Their still biggest deficit is the battery which usually ails after a few hours of intensive work and makes those willing to work always look for a socket.
A US-American team of researchers recently developed a battery with which notebooks, mobile phones, [...]