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Recently I got several calls from a private number (ie. the caller was displayed as "Unknown Number" since no callerID was sent to my phone) and after I picked up there was no sound (I mean literally no sound came from the phone ... if somebody calls you, but doesn't say a word, you still get some "ambient" noise ... but my calls had no sound at all). I picked up at least 5 such calls in two days (apparently it was the same caller) and could not make contact. A few times I tried to speak to the caller telling that I do not hear a thing (in case my voice got to her/him), but the calls continued. It became quite annoying so I started looking for a way to block these calls alltogether.

I've read a promo article on the upcoming N-Gage game "Reset Generation". I really believed for a moment that this is going to be some hot-shot megahit with amazing graphics, brilliant gameplay and multiplayer option, etc. After watching a 4min preview with some screenshots from the game, I didn't know how to react. Should I be loughing my ass off or be seriously traumatized or what? Who the hell is going to pay for playing this?

QR codes are a sort of two-dimensional barcodes. It's quite much a de-facto standard for mobiles in Japan and is gaining in popularity world-wide. Some people incorrectly assume that "QR codes" and "2D barcodes" are synonyms, however there're dozens of 2D barcode formats/standards and QR code is just one of them (check out the Wikipedia page for an extensive list of 2D barcode formats). QR codes can hold all sorts of content, not just numbers, text or URLs (which is the most common use of QR codes). They can hold up to 2953 bytes so small icons, images are also embeddable.

NavBall is yet another crazy game idea based on GPS enabled phones. The main point is that two teams (each consisting of 11 players) try to score goals against one another by shooting a virtual ball. The game is coordinated by a central server, which is responsible for calculating the ball's movement. A goal is scored for a team whenever the ball crosses the virtual gate of the other team. The players can shoot the ball by taking positions in the city that together make an arrow-like shape on the map. Sounds like a lot of fun for geeks who don't excel at sports.

Motorola announced to have found a way to get 75% of incoming light through the reflective screen of mobile phones. This is quite a step forward since up til now only 6% was achievable. Who knows ... maybe one day your notebook will suck in sunlight too.

[News.com/HWSW] A Consumer Electronics Show-n a Motorola bejelentette, hogy stratégiai megállapodást kötött a Google, amelynek értelmében a vállalat készülékei hamarosan egyetlen gomnyomásra a világ legnépszerűbb keresőjének mobiltelefonokra optimalizált változatát varázsolja a képernyőre.

[Reuters/HWSW] A világ egyik legfejlettebb telekommunikációs piacán, Dél-Koreában új funkcióval ruházzák fel a mobiltelefonokat a jövőben. A távol-keleti ország ügyészsége egy olyan szolgáltatást indít, amely az elképzelések szerint felválthatja a postai levélküldeményeket -- tetemes összegeket spórolva meg a hivataloknak.

Én ezt nem igazán értem ... Miért nem az USA-ban vezették be először a mobilos vád alá helyezés értesítőt? Nem ott a legmagasabb az egy lakosra jutó ügyvédek száma?