June 8th, 2009

Amika Mobile asked:
Over the decade I have been using mobile devices to view email, I have noticed how users get completely addicted to their devices. I recall walking around with a Nokia flip phone – circa 2000 that I finally gave up for a Motorola phone circa 2004! I still think both vendors offer great phones. Today, I walk around with a Pearl from Blackberry. 2007 marks the first time in a decade that I have accepted a Blackberry as a phone and as an email device. I had both. I get the Gist of Email from various sources (personal and enterprise) sent to me through www.amikamoble.net. I don’t bother synching my Blackberry since I don’t want the 200 or so messages I get a day to come to me mobile. I am finding that this is a good way to separate what I have to absolutely address while away from my Inbox. I am definitely an addict of mobile email and am very fussy about my mobile device. I know people who have steadfastly refused to give up their devices until the keys start to fail. The reason for this besides the form factor, look and feel is the information that these devices have onboard in terms of contacts and now pictures. One way around this is to synch the device to a desktop contact manager and download pictures and crucial information before they get lost altogether when the mobile device finally gives out as all things manufactured tend to do!
Not only do users become attached to specific mobile devices but they can personalize their mobile phones further through the effective use of black and/white lists with services such as that at www.amikamobile.net. Judicious use of filtering words during the sign-on for this service creates a highly personalized mobile phone, thereby increasing the efficacy of the forwarding of critical email alerts and their relevance to every user. Filtering can be amended later by returning to the sign-on page and making changes, additions and/or deletions as necessary.
Tags: Addict, Blackberry, Contact Manager, Look And Feel, Mobile phone
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June 7th, 2009

Pooja Lapasia asked:
Ready to Process
If you are looking for a food processor which will give you the option of dry grinding then, Siemens MK 53800 is not the one for you. But all the other things are available on this food processor; whether it be whipping, grinding, mincing, grating, chopping, slicing, whatever. This device from the house of Siemens is very compact and it comes with a number of jars, disks and blades. Let?s find out more about this device.
Key Features
Siemens MK 53800 is a device which will help you a lot while doing kitchen work. It will cut short your time spend in the kitchen by about half. The processor comes with different kinds of blades like Wet Grinding blade, Chutney blade, Whipping blade and Mincing or Grating blade for different usage. Universal blade is also present over here. It is a blade which does all kind of grinding, blending and mixing. Just within few seconds you can make juices or make chutney with the help of this food processor.
The food processor consumes 800 watts of power, which is quite high on the energy consumption. The device works with the power supply of 240V single phase. This means you don?t need any extra electrical power to use this food processor.
Design
Siemens MK 53800 is designed for comfort. It has a small unit which will take very less space in your kitchen. It comes with different jars, discs and blades for different purposes. The jars are made up of Polycarbonate. This gives them rust free longer life.
Accessories
There are three different jars provided with the Siemens MK 53800. These jars are namely the Liquidizer or Blender Jar and Grinding Jar. With the liquidizer jar you can prepare fruit juices within seconds. Grinding jar is for different kinds of grinding.
For the Foodies
Imagine about the things that you can make with the help of Siemens MK 53800. It?s an old saying that the way to a man?s heart is through his stomach. Now prepare the whole three course meal with the assistance of this wonderful and easy to use device. If your loved ones demand for some hot bhajiyas during the raining season then just put the vegetables in the processor and leave the work on it. While you are frying the bhajiyas, you can also make chutney to go with it. Just re-explore your culinary skills with Siemens MK 53800.
Conclusion
Siemens MK 53800 is one of the best things that can happen to you for your kitchen. It?s just that this Food Processor does not come with the dry grinding jar. It won?t matter much, if you don?t ground spices at home. It is a good device to have.
Tags: Blade, Blender, Different Kinds, Kitchen Work, Siemens
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June 7th, 2009

Paul Fitzgerald asked:
The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that don’t find a link between cancer and cell phone use, and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data. He says it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people should take action now especially when it comes to children.
“Really at the heart of my concern is that we shouldn’t wait for a definitive study to come out, but err on the side of being safe rather than sorry later,” Herberman said.
No other major academic cancer research institutions have sounded such an alarm about cell phone use. But Herberman’s advice is sure to raise concern among many cell phone users and especially parents.
In the memo he sent to about 3,000 faculty and staff Wednesday, he says children should use cell phones only for emergencies because their brains are still developing.
Adults should keep the phone away from the head and use the speakerphone or a wireless headset, he says. He even warns against using cell phones in public places like a bus because it exposes others to the phone’s electromagnetic fields.
The issue that concerns some scientists though nowhere near a consensus is electromagnetic radiation, especially its possible effects on children. It is not a major topic in conferences of brain specialists.
A 2008 University of Utah analysis looked at nine studies including some Herberman cites with thousands of brain tumor patients and concludes “we found no overall increased risk of brain tumors among cellular phone users. The potential elevated risk of brain tumors after long-term cellular phone use awaits confirmation by future studies.”
Studies last year in France and Norway concluded the same thing.
“If there is a risk from these products and at this point we do not know that there is it is probably very small,” the Food and Drug Administration says on an agency Web site.
Still, Herberman cites a “growing body of literature linking long-term cell phone use to possible adverse health effects including cancer.”
“Although the evidence is still controversial, I am convinced that there are sufficient data to warrant issuing an advisory to share some precautionary advice on cell phone use,” he wrote in his memo.
A driving force behind the memo was Devra Lee Davis, the director of the university’s center for environmental oncology.
“The question is do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain,” she said in an interview from her cell phone while using the hands-free speaker phone as recommended. “I don’t know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don’t know that they are safe.”
Of concern are the still unknown effects of more than a decade of cell phone use, with some studies raising alarms, said Davis, a former health adviser in the Clinton Administration.
She said 20 different groups have endorsed the advice the Pittsburgh cancer institute gave, and authorities in England, France and India have cautioned children’s use of cell phones.
Herberman and Davis point to a massive ongoing research project known as Interphone, involving scientists in 13 nations, mostly in Europe. Results already published in peer-reviewed journals from this project aren’t so alarming, but Herberman is citing work not yet published.
The published research focuses on more than 5,000 cases of brain tumors. The National Research Council in the U.S., which isn’t participating in the Interphone project, reported in January that the brain tumor research had “selection bias.” That means it relied on people with cancer to remember how often they used cell phones. It is not considered the most accurate research approach.
The largest published study, which appeared in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2006, tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, including thousands that had used the phones for more than 10 years. It found no increased risk of cancer among those using cell phones.
A French study based on Interphone research and published in 2007 concluded that regular cell phone users had “no significant increased risk” for three major types of nervous system tumors. It did note, however, that there was “the possibility of an increased risk among the heaviest users” for one type of brain tumor, but that needs to be verified in future research.
Earlier research also has found no connection.
Joshua E. Muscat of Penn State University, who has studied cancer and cell phones in other research projects partly funded by the cell phone industry, said there are at least a dozen studies that have found no cancer-cell phone link. He said a Swedish study cited by Herberman as support for his warning was biased and flawed.
“We certainly don’t know of any mechanism by which radiofrequency exposure would cause a cancerous effect in cells. We just don’t know this might possibly occur,” Muscat said.
Cell phones emit radiofrequency energy, a type of radiation that is a form of electromagnetic radiation, according to the National Cancer Institute. Though studies are being done to see if there is a link between it and tumors of the brain and central nervous system, there is no definitive link between the two, the institute says on its Web site.
“By all means, if a person feels compelled that they should take precautions in reducing the amount of electromagnetic radio waves through their bodies, by all means they should do so,” said Dan Catena, a spokesman for the American Cancer Society. “But at the same time, we have to remember there’s no conclusive evidence that links cell phones to cancer, whether it’s brain tumors or other forms of cancer.”
Joe Farren, a spokesman for the CTIA-The Wireless Association, a trade group for the wireless industry, said the group believes there is a risk of misinforming the public if science isn’t used as the ultimate guide on the issue.
“When you look at the overwhelming majority of studies that have been peer reviewed and published in scientific journals around the world, you’ll find no relationship between wireless usage and adverse health affects,” Farren said.
Frank Barnes, who chaired the January report from the National Research Council, said Wednesday that “the jury is out” on how hazardous long-term cell phone use might be.
Speaking from his cell phone, the professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder said he takes no special precautions in his own phone use. And he offered no specific advice to people worried about the matter.
It’s up to each individual to decide what if anything to do. If people use a cell phone instead of having a land line, “that may very well be reasonable for them,” he said.
Susan Juffe, a 58-year-old Pittsburgh special education teacher, heard about Herberman’s cell phone advice on the radio earlier in the day.
“Now, I’m worried. It’s scary,” she said.
She says she’ll think twice about allowing her 10-year-old daughter Jayne to use the cell phone.
“I don’t want to get it (brain cancer) and I certainly don’t want you to get it,” she explained to her daughter.
Sara Loughran, a 24-year-old doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh, sat in a bus stop Wednesday chatting on her cell phone with her mother. She also had heard the news earlier in the day, but was not as concerned.
“I think if they gave me specific numbers and specific information and it was scary enough, I would be concerned,” Loughran said, planning to call her mother again in a matter of minutes. “Without specific numbers, it’s too vague to get me worked up.”
Tags: Brain Tumors, Cancer Center, Cellular Phone Users, Dr Ronald, Speakerphone
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June 3rd, 2009

mobile Unlocks asked:
Typically when you purchase a cell phone, the company that sold you the phone (ex: AT&T) ‘locked’ the phone before you bought it, so you can only use it on their network. This means that you can’t use your phone on any other network, even if you change the SIM (which is an abbreviation for Subscriber Identity Module) card. The SIM card is the little piece of plastic that identifies your phone to the cellular network. Changing your SIM card to have your nokia phone work on another network is useful especially if you want to travel to another country and want to buy a pre-paid SIM card so you can have cell phone access without roaming charges. There are services that offer to provide unlocking capabilities for a fee, but don’t pay for them! You can do it yourself for free, which is the perfect price.
1. Before trying anything else, contact your service provider and ask for an unlock code as per your nokia model. Usually, if you’ve been a customer of theirs for some time, they will provide you with free mobile unlock codes for your mobile phone. This is, by far, the best way to get your nokia phone unlocked.
2. Download software to generate the unlocking code. Software is available on some websites for free and some pay websites that also offer support if things go wrong. See external links below.
3. Find the Serial number of the nokia phone, also known as your IMEI number. This IMEI number help you to find nokia unlock codes for various nokia models. This can be done by either removing the back of your cell phone and looking underneath the battery, or simply by typing in *#06# into your cell phone. It should be something like: 010072321539976/07961780836
4. Using the software you have downloaded, enter in your Manufacturer (which is in this case Nokia), and sliding the card out. Put the battery back in and power the phone on.
5. You will see a message “Insert SIM Card”. Enter all of the characters you see in your code, including the # symbols. To get a ‘p’ press * 3 times, to get a ‘+’ press the * key 2 times, to get a ‘w’ press the * key 4 times. Disregard any spaces in the code.
6. In order to unlock your phone you generally need to enter only one code. Start with the first one. If your phone is not unlocked by typing the first code (MCC+MNC), use code “7″ (Multilock)
7. Once you have finished entering a code that works you should see a message that says “SIM is not restricted” or “Restriction off” message depending on your model. If not, try entering another code. Message “Cannot undo restrictions” means the phone is “hard-locked” and cannot be unlocked by code.
Warning
• Be sure to backup important information from your nokia phone [Contacts, Messages etc].
• Make copies of all files downloaded from your phone *before* they are modified. If something is wrong with the modified copy, you can reload the unmodified one to go “back to normal” in many cases.
Tags: Abbreviation, Code Software, Imei Number, Price 1, Serial Number
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June 2nd, 2009

Matt Sharp asked:
Fashion solutions has never been a forte of mobile phone manufacturing giant Sony Ericsson. Over the years, this joint venture between Japanese consumer electronics giant and Swedish telecommunication player have produced many brilliant handsets that includes the music ace mobile phone line up – the Walkman series and highly acclaimed CyberShot series of high end camera phones. However, the company has always shied from the fashion class, leaving it open for other players in the market. Things are about to change with their latest arrival – the Sony Ericsson S500i Black. Being their first fashion phone, the pressure on the Sony Ericsson S500i Black to perform are immense.
Immaculate designing and Sony Ericcson habit of loading a mobile phone with as many features possible have made sure that the Sony Ericsson S500i Black makes an lasting impression on everyone. The handset sports a glossy black sliding case with a smooth action. When looked closely, one can see that the black case is actually green. Its manufactures therefore aptly named this colour solution as ‘Mysterious Green’. Other colour solution of the Sony Ericsson mobile phones S500i is Spring Yellow.Unlike many other fashion phones, the Sony Ericsson S500i Black does not only looks good, but it works good too.
The handset sports a 2.0 mega pixel digital camera with video recording skills. It is capable of shooting stills with up to 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution. On board media player features many advanced functions like play list support mobile phones, graphic equalizer, TrackID music recognition, typically seen in Walkman phones. If the handset’s 12 Mb of shared memory seems a little less for any serious music collection on your mobile phone, you can always opt for a M2 memory card and load it with all that you want to carry with you. Embedded Blue tooth v2.0 is endowed with A2DP profile to enjoy the bliss of mobile music on wireless stereo headsets. Get connected, shoot pictures, entertain yourself or simply flaunt it – the Sony Ericsson S500i Black is the one stop solution for everything.
mobile phones, Sony Ericsson
Tags: Black Style, Giant Sony, Japanese Consumer Electronics, Music Ace, Sony Ericcson
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