Eye-Fi Geo WiFi SD cards come to the Apple Store

There’s no doubt that in the age of wireless, it seems downright antediluvian to have to plug a gadget into a USB port to transfer data to your computer. And besides, the tangled, knotted intestines of the cable drawer often do not easily untwine for the cord you need.

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SiRF Unveils Next Generation GPS

SiRF, the San Jose-based embedded GPS company, has unveiled SiRFstar IV, a vast upgrade to the GPS architecture used in many portable and in-car GPS systems released over the past five years.

The new architecture aims to reduce battery drain, and it allows for much smaller receiver components. Intriguingly, SiRF designed SiRFstar IV not to just coexist with other components in cell phones and other consumer electronics, but take advantage of the additional sensors included in those devices as well.

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Verizon Talks Behind AT&T’s Back

It’s pretty obvious that AT&T doesn’t care about its customers and that it can’t scale to meet the growing demands of its iPhone customers. AT&T’s U.S. network is completely saturated and over-sold.

Complaints about widespread AT&T outages at large events like Macworld Expo, WWDC, SXSW and concerts seem to have fallen on deaf ears. ComicCon is the latest example of how AT&T is truly a steaming heap of failure — and competitors are starting to call them on it.

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45-nanometer chips for ultra-fast WiFi

Powerful new radio technologies that hold the key to blisteringly fast wireless communications, in-car radar to improve road safety and more detailed medical imaging, among other uses, have been given a boost by cutting-edge research carried out in Europe on miniscule microchips.
The work, led by Belgian-based nanotechnology research group IMEC, has proven the potential for 45 nanometre-scale chips to be used for radio frequency (RF) applications that require high speed and low power consumption.
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A Cell-Phone Microscope for Disease Detection

A cheap smart-phone microscope could bring fluorescent medical imaging to areas with limited access to health care.
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Why Japan’s Cellphones Haven’t Gone Global

TOKYO — At first glance, Japanese cellphones are a gadget lover’s dream: ready for Internet and e-mail, they double as credit cards, boarding passes and even body-fat calculators.

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TomTom navigating its way into iPhones

As a member of the directionally challenged community, I have been much enamored with having a device that knows where I am and where I’m going even when I don’t.

Even as other GPS navigation apps have launched — among them are AT&T’s Navigator (free download, $9.99 monthly) and Sygic’s Mobile Maps ($79.99 for North America) — many iPhone owners have been atwitter about the advent of a TomTom navigational iPhone app, announced at WWDC in San Francisco on June 8.

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Sony Ericsson Packs In the Pixels With New Camera Phone

Most camera phones are thought of as cellphones that also happen to be able to take pictures. Sony Ericsson’s new C905a Cyber-shot turns the tables; it’s an 8.1-megapixel camera that also happens to be able to make phone calls. It joins the Samsung Memoir, another recent offering, in raising the cellphone megapixel ante.
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Orange confirms Toshiba TG01 exclusive in UK

UK wireless provider Orange on Thursday officially confirmed at an expected event that it will be the exclusive provider of the Toshiba TG01 touchscreen smartphone. The 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered device will ship to stores on Friday.

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Microsoft says Bing boosts unique users by 8pc

Peter Bale, executive produce of MSN, Microsoft’s news and entertainment portal, told The Telegraph: “The launch of local UK hotspots, as opposed to US driven links, is an important stage for the UK version of Bing coming out of beta.

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