10-05-03 Britain's iconic red phone boxes have become obsolete in the age of the mobile -- but villages across the country are stepping in to save them, with creative flair. 在如今的移动通讯时代,英国标志性的红色电话亭已渐渐过时,但英国各地的小镇居民正发挥他...
10-04-29 Palm, a pioneer in the smart phone business, is being bought by US computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $1bn (657m) cash. 奔迈,智能手机领域的先锋,被美国电脑巨头惠普以10亿美元价格收购。 The Palm Pre was dubbed an 'iPhone killer' HP said Palm's w...
10-03-07 Technology that could see an end to the bane of many commuters - people talking loudly on their mobile phones - has been shown off by researchers. 国际信息及通信技术博览会上,研究人员向大家展示了一种装置,有了它,大家在上下班公交车上可能再也遇不到大...
09-11-14 Terrible texting etiquette -- and ways to combat them By Victoria Lowe for Cosmopolitan Unless you're living a seriously alternative lifestyle, you've probably been communicating via text for a while now. You text your friends, your dates -- even yo...
09-11-07 What a big deal A young businessman had just started his business, and rented a beautiful office. Sitting there, he saw a man come into the outer office. Wishing to appear busy, the businessman picked up the phone and pretended that he had a big dea...
09-10-25 A new mobile phone charger that will work with any handset has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations body. 联合国国际电信联盟通过使用一种可以连接任何手机的充电器。 Future handsets will all be able to use...
09-09-17 A mobile phone application will help professional and citizen scientists collect and analyse data from in the field, anywhere in the world. 一个手机程序将会帮助世界上任何地方的专业或市民科学家收集、分析专业领域的数据。 The approach allows citizen sc...
09-09-02 Online auction site eBay has agreed to sell the majority of internet phone company Skype for about $2bn (1.2bn). 在线拍卖网站eBay同意以20亿美元的价格出售网络电话公司Skype的大部分股份。 eBay had said earlier this year that it planned to spin off Skyp...
09-08-08 A text message is typed into a phone in a file photo. A growing number of British teenagers are swapping sexually explicit images of themselves on mobile phones leaving them open to bullying and victimization by their peers, police and a children's...
09-07-22 Researchers have developed an add-on to a mobile phone that can take detailed images and analyse them to diagnose diseases such as tuberculosis. 研究人员已经研究出一个移动电话的附加装置,可以检测和分析诸如肺结核等疾??The prototype of the device Th...