TOKYO - Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now, they can take a university course. Cyber University, the nation’s only university to offer all classes only on the Interne…

u-blox from Switzerland has announced two new GPS modules - where the LEA-5 series is based on u-blox’ 5th generation positioning engine that is touts an acquisition performance of under a second. Now that’s pretty fast by any standards, with its 50-channel GPS architecture and over 1 million correlators and separate acquisition and tracking engines to thank for being able to perform massively parallel searches. When used in conjunction with u-blox’ AssistNow A-GPS service, the u-blox 5 chip and module generation is capable the acquisition performance as mentioned earlier.

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The Mini MOB cellphone brings us back to the days where cellphones were really huge and could be used to crack open crabs at the dining table thanks to their sheer size and weight. This extremely retro handset not only handles everyday communications, but it boasts a 3-day talk time, a 30-day standby time, a miniSD memory card slot, and an MP3 player. You will need to fork out £160 for this 11cm x 3.5cm handset. I guess this is more of a novelty purpose than anything else, and think that the money could be better spent elsewhere.

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