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$32k Nokia 1100 bought for online banking scam

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Apr 21st 2009 No Comments

nokia 1100 142x192 custom The Nokia 1100 was never an especially alluring device, even at its launch, but a select few versions of the simplistic cellphone are said to be changing hands for up to €25,000 ($32,328) among criminals. According to unconfirmed reports, the specific 1100’s each show a specific software flaw that, with the correct reprogramming, allows them to intercept the one-time passwords used to authorize online bank transactions.

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No more SMS for future Peek Classic buyers

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 24th 2009 No Comments

peek pronto 11 141x202 custom With the launch of the Peek Pronto earlier today, offering support for push email and unlimited SMS messaging, we asked the company what that meant for the original Peek emailer and its texting abilities. According to our source at Peek, the Peek Classic will now be 100-percent email, with no future Classic units offering SMS support.

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Peek Pronto gets official: Push email, 5 accounts, unlimited SMS

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 24th 2009 No Comments

The Peek Pronto email device tipped last week has been officially launched, offering push email functionality, Microsoft Exchange compatibility and support for up to five email accounts rather than the usual two. The Pronto is priced at $79.95 and requires the same $19.95 monthly service charge as the original Peek messenger.

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No monthly subscription needed for Xact’s personal GPS tracker

By Shawn Farner on Friday, Jan 9th 2009 1 Comment

Many personal GPS tracking options hit you with two costs – the cost of the device and then the additional cost of a monthly subscription. Xact Technology hopes that, by doing away with the subscription cost, you”ll give the XACT | TRAX a go.

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iRiver’s WAVE-HOME wants to be your all-in-one communications hub

By Shawn Farner on Thursday, Jan 8th 2009 No Comments

iRiver will be briefing the CES crowd in a few short hours, but we thought we’d take an early look at one of the new products they’ve brought to the show. The WAVE-HOME is not an easy device to categorize other than to say this – iRiver wants it to do a lot for you.

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Peek add SMS, image attachment viewing, to email messenger

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 19th 2008 1 Comment

The Peek email messenger is either the pinnacle of task-specific devices, or an under-functional waste of pocket space, depending on your stance on convergence. Reviewers seem fairly happy, but one regular critique is the device’s unwavering obsession with email above all other types of messaging. Now Peek have responded by adding SMS compatibility, together with updating the email app to support a broader range of image attachment viewing.

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WaSnake SMS & RSS personal flexible news ticker

By Chris Davies on Thursday, May 8th 2008 No Comments

Jean Louis Frechin, who designed the strange chronopictographic digital photo frames, also has an idea of what you could keep your WiFi picture viewer on. His bendy WaSnake shelving doesn’t just stop at holding up the odd vase, though; it’s a clever display in its own right. Colored LEDs and optical fibres fill blocks periodically along the shelf, and these can display SMS messages and RSS feeds that scroll across its length.

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CES 2008: Underwater Technology Center’s UDI allows text messaging underwater

By James Allan Brady on Saturday, Jan 5th 2008 No Comments

This nifty little arm mounted SMS device could be the thing that saves your life if you find yourself caught underwater with a lack of Oxygen or coming up too fast. Also, when it’s not being used to bring those capable to your rescue, you can just use it communicate with the rest of your team or with those on the ship you dropped in from.

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Happy New Year!

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Dec 31st 2007 No Comments

I just wanted to wish a happy new year to all of our readers, staffers, and all the people we work(ed) with on a daily basis throughout the past year and in the year to come! As far as I know it the next big thing on the SlashGear calendar is CES, we’ll be there covering it live too, and then Mac World and there are a ton of other events I am forgetting but those are the most immediate.

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InterGrafx 3D Virtual Secretary on your phone

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Dec 5th 2007 2 Comments

So it can wake you up, schedule your appointments, and other clerical tasks. It cant answer your phones, and although it might look attractive to you (sick freak) you can’t have an affair with it, so stick to the real thing, if not for adultery, do it so you don’t have to answer your phone so often.

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