notifications

Monday, July 13, 2009
Phones

12 Ultrasonic Ringtones For Your Nearly-Silent Listening Pleasure

5:00AM Jack Loftus | The kiddies have been using ultrasonic ringtones to secretly take calls/texts in class since 2006, but if you’re an adult who can still hear these frequencies then by all means head over to Lifehacker for some of your own [Lifehacker]
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Phones

Microsoft Proposes Phones That Tap and Rub to Get Your Attention

8:00PM John Herrman | Microsoft Research is set to present a paper this week outlining an entirely new set of notification tools for mobile phones, including communicative tapping and rubbing mechanisms, complementing the blunt, simple, and often not-so-silent ‘vibrate’ function with a set of truly quiet ‘rub’ and ‘tap’ notifiers. They argue that user notification is a communications bottleneck for current cell phones, and that rubbing or tapping motions could notify users as well as communicate common messages, to which there could be assigned simple patterns of movement. More »
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Gadgets

Visa and Eight Banks Test Real-Time SMS Notifications For Transactions

8:40AM Jason Chen | Visas and eight banks (”PNC Bank, SunTrust Bank, U.S. Bank, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo in the United States, and Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank Financial Group, and Vancity in Canada”) are testing real-time SMS notifications whenever your card makes one of a few types of transactions. The 2000 pilot beta customers can pick alerts for ATM cash withdrawals, internet or telephone charge, an out-of-country charge or a charge that’s over a pre-defined amount. You can choose to have these alerts go to your phone or your email (if you’re cheap like us and don’t want to burn up all your messages), which you can then immediately use to alert Visa to any fraudulent activity. Great idea or greatest idea? You be the judge. [Slashphone] More »
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