Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Cellibacy in 2008 - 60 days w/o a cell phone

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

This is a New Year's resolution I would certainly default on. The project is called “Cellibacy”, but as comedian and advocate Amy Borkowsky explains, “It’s not about giving up sex. I’m giving up something much harder than that.” On January 1st, Borkowsky will attempt to ring in 2008 with a lot ...

Make an A, Get a Ringtone

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I used to get good grades because it was expected of me. If I did exceptional my folks would sometimes reward me with a toy or game. However, that was never the motivation. I'd say it was mostly pride, sibling rivalry, a sense of what I felt was right, and ...

Verizon Wireless to Share Your Data (for advertising?) - Opt-Out Now

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Verizon Wireless has quietly made a change to their privacy policy. This to allow data mininig to improve customer service and allegedly to enable targeted advertisements. They won't be sharing your name or phone number, but they plan on sharing your call history and handset information. At issue is so-called Customer ...

ATT Smart Limits Puts Parents In Control of Cell Billing and Usage; Angers Children

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

It looks like ATT has finally listened to parents' call to be able to have more control over their Family Plans. Smart Limits is an optional feature priced at $4.99/month which allows parents to limit minutes, messaging, and access to premium content such as ringtones on a phone number by ...

Man’s Cell Phone Explodes

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Just because this picture is so great. Somehow I still don't believe that is what really happened. I would, but the blogger doesn't link to any of his sources...(and I hate when that happens...I'll bring all my glasses and my shoes so I have them...) I do like his Star Wars ...

Custom ringtones for your iPhone - Thanks Hackers!

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Boom! I've tried to refrain from participating in the iPhone hype; but there are some things I can't resist. The iPhone has been criticized since day 1 for not allowing custom ringtones. for Looking at the video, hackers have figured out a way to load custom ringtones onto an iPhone. Also, ...

Size Matters: Chicks like big …

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Cellphones. Didn't you know. InformationWeek writes about a new Samsung report describing some of the habits of cellphone savvy women. Young women are super savvy at using all the facets of a mobile phone to enhance their lives. When women want to flirt, they'll send a text message. When they need to avoid ...

Barack The Vote with your Mobile

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I must admit. I saw that on a t-shirt. Barack Obama has launched an SMS service to support his presidential campaign. He’s made it easy to join: People just send “Go” to OBAMA (62262)...ah, the benefit of a five-letter name. The service will keep voters apprised of campaign events such as local ...

Ringtones Out the Wazoo

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Ringtones Out the Wazoo That may be a good headline for a company looking to sell ringtones; however that isn't the case for this posting. The Sun had a story about a UK prisoner who had to get his contraband cellphone surgically removed from his anus. There is only one place for ...

GotVoice: Visual Voicemail w/o an iPhone

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Want to see your voicemail? Don't have an iPhone? No problem, with wap and a 3rd party service called GotVoice you can have visual voicemail on your uncool un-iPhone. Traditional voice mail is a pain since you have to go through and at least listen to part of each message to ...