Tag archive: Echo

For those still drooling over the screen real estate of a tablet, but unwilling to sacrifice the pocket-friendly size of a smartphone, Sprint’s new Kyocera Echo looks like a folding slice of heaven. Like a Galaxy Tab mated with a Nintendo DS, the Echo flips open to reveal dual 3.5-inch displays, with area equivalent to a single 4.7-inch screen. Compact size? Check. Room to play? Check. You can flip through e-mail in one screen and browse in… Read More

Facebook would like to take over user comments across the Web. Though the social network has had a plugin for managing comments since 2009, CNET reports that Zuckerberg and Co. are gearing up to release an entire third-party commenting platform to compete with startups like Disqus and IntenseDebate. As it did with the Like button, Facebook hopes to use comments as another way to bring the wild Web into Facebook. “Based on feedback from… Read More

At its annual developers conference in Chicago this week, online auction giant eBay plans to announce Project Echo, a new platform that will enable developers to embed applications where more than 700,000 eBay sellers can subscribe to them. Project Echo will also include APIs that provide developers with information on buyer demographics and habits, along with inventory management tools. eBay's primary focus with Project Echo is to… Read More

In the wake of a major natural disaster, it’s important to get the infrastructure working again. These days, a vital part of that is to get telecommunications up and running – not justthe phones, but also Internet communication.   What you might not know is that there’s an organization called Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) that goesinto affected areas right after the disaster. It’s a charity that works with the… Read More

These improvements are designed to further increase the robust recording capabilities and navigation of the service. In addition to current DVR functionality such as the ability to record a program to watch at a later time, record high-definition programming (viewable only with an HDTV set or monitor) and pause and rewind live TV – the new dual tuner functionality allows customers to record two programs simultaneously while watching a… Read More

Echo, a joint venture launched with a splash of publicity in early 2003, was designed to give the big brick-and-mortar retailers such as Best Buy and Virgin Megastores an online foothold that would help them beat back file-swapping services and digital stores. But mounting development costs, a glut of rivals offering bargain-rate services, and smaller-than-hoped-for sales across the online-music spectrum, even at Apple's successful… Read More

The Nokia 3300 music phone includes an MP3/AAC player, FM stereo radio and a full messaging keypad to make messaging and music mobile in one fashionable and small device.  It is currently onsale at www.nokia.com/us and at Cingular stores in the United States.  More carriers across North and South America are expected to offer the Nokia 3300 music phone in the coming weeks.  The 3300 music phone is the first of its kind in the… Read More