Archive for October, 2009
Does Anybody Need a Windows Mobile 6.5.1 Update?
Windows Mobile 6.5 has just been officially announced and Microsoft is already cooking up updates. We knew well ahead of the actual roll out that the new Microsoft mobile OS was not as impressive as people wished for it to be. After all, even …
Read More..>>Bernie Madoff ‘astonished’ Feds flunked ‘accounting 101′ and missed …
Filed under: PeopleIt wasn’t enough for felonious Ponzi patriarch Bernard Madoff to bilk his clients of over $60 billion in assets. Now, the jailbird stock swindler is trash-talking about the very federal authorities who should have caught him and …
Read More..>>Why Google Doesn’t Like Its Phone Bill
WHEN you call Grandma on her farm in Iowa, your long-distance phone company pays her local phone company an access fee. That’s fine. It’s much higher than elsewhere but few calls go to her and her neighbors, so the fees don’t add up quickly …
Read More..>>“Droid Does”
I remember my very first mobile phone – its a Motorola, a bulky CDMA mobile phone with a rubber duck anthena, with a one-liner digital screen. During those times, we don’t put our phones on our pockets because you just can’t because of the size, we …
Read More..>>Nokia’s N-Gage Gaming Platform Disengages, Moves To Ovi Store
I’d love to say I could say ‘I told you so’ but since I never once wrote about the inevitable demise of Nokia’s N-Gage gaming platform on this blog I really can’t. But alas, the gaming unit has met its end. The news actually comes as no …
Read More..>>IBM tool adapts Web content for mobile, voice browsers
With software being created by IBM researchers, developers will be able to adapt a Web page for voice browsers — and for mobile browsers that fall short of a PC-like Web experience — with easy-to-follow lines. The visual editor technology, which …
Read More..>>Verizon says iPhone challenger goes on sale Nov. 6 (The Times and Democrat)
NEW YORK (AP) ‘” Verizon Wireless will start selling its answer to the iPhone ‘” the Droid ‘” for $200 next week as the company taps into the growing appetite for smart phones that go far beyond making calls.
Read More..>>Two mobiles, one Blackberry and he’s only 8
Josh Wilson already owns three mobiles at the tender age of eight placing him in the firing line, according to new research which indicates phones do increase the risk of brain cancer. But neither Josh, nor his parents, are too concerned because they …
Read More..>>The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet
Please fill in the following information and we’ll email this link. To anyone with bad memories of how Gore’s fact-filled debate performances against George W. Bush in 2000 failed to connect with voters, it may come as no surprise that Our Choice has …
Read More..>>Palm’s Pre No Panacea for Sprint (AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance)
The Palm Pre may have been the most successful handset rollout in Sprints history, but it hasnt stopped the carrier from hemorrhaging customers in the months following its launch. In its second quarter–the first with the Pre in its lineup–Sprint lost 991,000 postpaid subscribers.
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