Archive for December, 2005
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
In light of the MTA transit strike here in NYC; I thought this would be an interesting news bit to share. As the MTA struggles to allow cell phone coverage in subway stations, in Finland they have given cell phone users the ability to pay for the bus with their ...
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
The US Department of Justice has been hammering the courts for the ability to track mobile phones without warrants. Several failed attempts did not deter the DOJ from their mission. It seems that they eventually found a court which was stupid sympathetic enough to realize their vision.
The EFF notes that, ...
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
Series 60, Nokia's bread and butter operating system, is getting features once exclusive to the N-Gage handsets.
"N-Gage is still being sold but it was not a success in the sense of developing a new category. We learnt that people want to play games on all devices. As such we ...
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
A few weeks ago it looked that RIM's Blackberry email service may have gone dark. However, it seems that the USPTO is backtracking, after realizing that NTP's patents are "bad".
This move is very unconventional for the Patent Office, but no doubt stems from the very public case which is putting ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
(I had to make it rhyme.)
By now we are all familiar with Jamster's legal battles due to misleading advertisements. If not, click the previous link and read. Anywho, it appears that in the ICSTIS, UK's mobile premium service regulator, has fined MBlox, not Jamster, $70k and ordered them to pay ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Waiting around for your cellco to deliver your voicemails to your email box. Should be easy enough. My Asterisk PBX can do it; so can most modern voicemail systems. Should be a no brainer for the cellcos. Wait no more, a friend of mine turned me on to GotVoice- a ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Emily, a professed Crazy Frog fan, shares 2 links with us today. The first is a report indicating that Crazy Frog may make an appearance on the silver screen. After having a successful music CD release in the UK, they are looking to give Crazy Frog fans more.
On the ...
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Monday, December 19th, 2005
Engadget reprots that theater owners will petition FCC to jam cellphones.
With flat panel prices in free-fall and sizes approaching those anaemic megaplex screens, it’s no wonder the National Association of Theater Owners is in a panic about the decline in consumers willing to slap down a near-sawbuck to watch a ...
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Monday, December 19th, 2005
A few weeks ago, CSI users felt slighted when they cross-promoted Coldplay ringtones in a CSI:NY episode. Hoping to break new ground, the episode and producers only drew criticism for the ringtone product placement.
CSI:NY's audience may not be the ringtone industry's target market, but Aqua Teen Hunger Force is. Last ...
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Monday, December 19th, 2005
XBOX 360 is set to add SMS alerts to XBOX Live!. FYI, the XBOX Live! messaging feature is pretty much MSN Messenger in disguise. So, in essence, MSN Messenger, not XBOX, will allow you to send text messages to cell phones from the console. Something AOL has had for many ...
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