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KDDI concocts snooping mobile phones, line managers rub hands with glee
Sci-fi movies often present us with omniscient villains who are able to track the most minute actions of their underlings and foes. Rarely do we get a glimpse into their surveillance systems, but you have to imagine that some of the more rudimentary “employee evaluation” hardware will not be too far off from KDDI’s latest. The Japanese cellphone giant has unveiled a new system, built around accelerometers, that can detect the difference between a cleaner scrubbing or sweeping a floor and merely walking along it. Based on new analytical software, stored remotely, this should provide not only accurate positional information about workers, but also a detailed breakdown of their activities. The benefits touted include “central monitoring, “salesforce optimisation,” and improvements in employee efficiency. We’re guessing privacy concerns were filed away in a collateral damage folder somewhere.
KDDI concocts snooping mobile phones, line managers rub hands with glee originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia patents ‘Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester,’ or a self-charging phone
Nokia is not adverse to dreaming up futuristic concepts (such as the Morph , pictured above, though the Morph used solar power), but this Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester sounds like it’ll either do what the company says it will, or bring about the grim future world envisioned in The Matrix where we’re all suddenly batteries. Batteries! So what is a Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester supposed to do?
Apple sues HTC for infringing on iPhone patents
Hoo boy. Apple has just sued rival smartphone maker HTC for infringing on 20 of its iPhone patents.
ASUS officially enters the e-reader fray with the DR-900
It looks like ASUS’s first e-reader out of the gates will be the DR-900, a 9-inch slab that boasts Wi-Fi with a 3G option and a battery which lasts a whopping 10,000 pages (no word on if you need to be a speed reading champion to take advantage of that). Besides that, details about the DR-900 have yet to be filled in — such as the price and release date — though we’re pretty sure it’ll have 4GB of internal storage, welcome support for PDF, TXT, MP3 and ePUB files, a monotone touchscreen and a headphone jack
MorphPad, a physical keypad and touchpad all at the same time
When buying a phone, you usually have to decide between something with a traditional keypad or a more versatile touchscreen.
HTC Desire and Hero2 could be coming to the US after all
When we first showed you HTC’s hot new Android phones , we were understandably bummed that HTC didn’t have a North American carrier lined up — and didn’t seem to have any plans to get one, either.
Puma joins forces with Sagem to birth the Puma Phone
Looks like the rumors we heard were true: august cordwainer Puma has teamed up with Sagem to make a phone — and it’s quite a looker, too. The Puma Phone (as it’s called) is a lightweight little guy that boasts an integrated solar cell for charging and charge indicator to let you know how you’re doing on juice, a QVGA TFT 2.8-inch capacative touchscreen, plus a 3.2 megapixel cam with LED flash and 6x zoom. It also packs in GPS, a compass and geotagging, plus it’s got a host of ’sporty’ features (pedometer, stopwatch and GPS tracker)… if you’re into an active lifestyle. This bad boy can be strapped to your arm when you’re on the go, but don’t blame us if it doesn’t score you any points with the passersby. The Puma Phone will be available throughout Europe in April of this year — no word on pricing or availability elsewhere yet. The full press release is after the break.
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Puma joins forces with Sagem to birth the Puma Phone originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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