December 2010
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Ex-Googlers Launch Beluga for Mobile Chat →
parislemon:
Really like this app so far. Been using it all night. Clean and simple. Works on iPhone, Android, the mobile web, and the regular web.
Plus I love the “Map” view (at least on the iPhone).
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Mobile equipment is a quarter-trillion dollar...
cnnmoneytech:
iSuppli just put out a staggering figure: Mobile equipment, including phones, cordless phones, battery chargers, mobile infrastructure, mobile and fixed broadband access devices and wireless LAN equipment such as routers will reach $235.5 billion in sales this year.
The biggest chunk of that? 3G cell phones and smartphones, which generated $86.4 billion in 2010, up 35% from last...
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Go got a present!
We wanted to share that Go has received its first holiday gift from a sweet, magical colleague.
We think she gives magical gifts. A unicorn car keyholder — both mystical and mobile.
Enchanting, no?
Photo: Unicorn car keyholder.
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Feeling groovy? Gangsta? Try Stereomood →
We like this. Teaching Tuesdays to be nicer.
reblogged via cnnmoneytech:
screenshot by CNNMoney
Editor’s note:The following is a guest post from CNNMoney webmaster Belinda, who knows all about HTML, Javascript and all that other tech that scares us.
Today my Tuesday decided to dress up like a Monday and make me moderately miserable. We’re talking an emergency large frozen yogurt kind of...
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FCC approves net neutrality regulations
From Times’ Technology:
In a highly controversial vote, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved new regulations for Internet access designed to prevent large telecommunications companies from squashing competitors.
The so-called net neutrality rules prohibit companies that provide high-speed Internet service from blocking access by customers to any legal content,...
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iPhone cases from emerging artists
Trying to scramble to find last minute gifts? (We are, too!). Not to worry. Brain Pickings and Society 6 have partnered to bring you some great, new art from independent artists.
Some of that fantastic art appears on iPhone cases. We are partial to these floating elephants.
Credit: Brainpickings.org
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The original instant message?
You agree with Dentyne? Is/was this the original instant message?
Photo: Dentyne Ice advertisement.
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Did cell phones ruin party movies?
The Atlantic says yes. Alexandra Gutierrez writes about many teen party classics. One of our favorites - Can’t Hardly Wait - is among them. She explains how current mobile technology would completely change the plots of many films.
She writes:
Can’t Hardly Wait, one of the last pre-cellular age One Crazy Night movies, wasn’t terribly plausible when it came out in 1998, but...
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Tweet of the week: iPhone carolers
This has to be the tweet of the week. Makes us wish more caroling happened out here in L.A. From @alexanderbasek:
Complain all you like about Brooklyn branding, but I had carolers on my street last night. Faces lit by their iPhones, but still—carolers!
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Smartphone wars: A house divided
When smartphones fight…
reblogged via cnnmoneytech:
My roommate and I are the coolest people on Facebook. -Julianne
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Go asks: What else do you want to see?
So, we’ve been writing this lovely mobile blog for a little while now. And, in the spirit of good housekeeping, we’d like to know… what else would you like to see? If you have recommendations for features, posts, etc. we’d like to hear from you. Tell us what you like that we are currently posting here. (And you can tell us what you don’t love so much). Sound off here...
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Guns, bombs, and iPhones
The Army wants to issue an Apple iPhone or Google Android smart phone to every soldier. Tthe devices could be used by troops in war zones to share intelligence and scout out the enemy as soon as next year. The Army is already testing smart phones at three stateside bases in a pilot program called Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications. And in February, smart phones are scheduled to be...
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Music you take with you
Yesterday we asked about road trip songs. Here are a few songs you clamored for: “End of the Line” by the Traveling Wilburys “Radar Love” by Golden Earring Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run”
These are great, but we want to know more. Road trips aside, what’s the song you played most during 2010? Doesn’t matter if the song came out in 2010 or not - we just want...
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Happy mobile holidays
From TechCrunch: eBay Posted Record $13M In Gross Mobile Sales Yesterday; Up 165 Percent
Wowzers, holiday spenders. Way to give your phones a work out.
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Road trip songs: Who's on your list?
As reported by the Times’ Technology section today, Willie Nelson apparently still tops many travellers’ lists, when they take a road trip.
In a poll by Pioneer Electronics USA, Nelson’s “On the Road Again” grabbed 27% of the votes. Surprising? Or fitting?
The rest of the rankings were, as follows:
2. “Born to be Wild,” Steppenwolf 3. “Take it Easy,” The Eagles 4. “I Get...
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: Tech is addictive
Quote of the day. Wozniak on technology, while at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA:
“We’re dependent on it,” he said at the museum (which sits about six blocks from Google’s headquarters), according to CNN. “And eventually, we are going to have it doing every task we can in the world, so we can sit back and relax.”
“All of a sudden,...
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If there really were a Neverland...
From Times’ Technology on AT&T’s new ad campaign:
As you can see from the above collation of images from AT&T’s new advertising campaign for their mobile network, a peculiar theme emerges.
In each case, a poster paints a picture of a fanciful, non-existent world — Camelot, Lilliput, Atlantis, “state of Euphoria” and Neverland. The image is...
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Facebook’s grand plan for the future →
Interesting story on Zuckerberg from the Financial Times.
reblogged via markmilian:
I saw Zuckerberg sitting alone on a picnic blanket and joined him. I had meetings later in the day, and happened to be wearing a suit (most people in Silicon Valley wear jeans and T-shirts). Zuckerberg told me to be careful not to get grass stains on my trousers and made some more room on the blanket for me....
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EU launches consultation on mobile roaming charges →
From the Wall Street Journal:
European citizens should pay the same mobile phone charges no matter what European Union country they may find themselves in, the European Commission said Wednesday.
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Also not mobile, but...
In the name of science and conservation…
Photo: A researcher dressed in a panda costume carries a panda cub after its physical examination at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve on December 3, 2010. The 4-month old cub is the first in the center to be trained for reintroduction into the wild. Researchers performing...
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Google's Andy Rubin gives snapshot of tablet... →
At the D: Dive into Mobile conference in San Francisco yesterday, Andy Rubin, Google’s VP of Mobile Platforms delivered a keynote - addressing mobile phone technology as well as what the future of tablets might look like. He dove into Android — explaining the past (Android started as an eight-person start-up), present, and possible future.
Here’s our favorite quote:
Question:...
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Oh, hi! So glad to be back
What did you do while Tumblr was down? Our guess: Angry Birds, anyone?
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Mobile memories: Your first voicemail
Quick Friday question for you. Do you remember the first time you received a voicemail on your first cellphone? We do.
For some of us here, it was sort of marvelous to get a message from someone when we were out and about in the world doing other stuff (other than waiting by the phone at home).
As a tidbit: Seattle, on a Nokia, call from ex-boyfriend. Another: Los Angeles Starbucks, Nokia,...
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Charlie Manson has a cellphone
Contraband cellphones are becoming so prevalent in California prisons that guards can’t keep them out of the hands of the most notorious and violent inmates: Even Charles Manson, orchestrator of one of the most notorious killing rampages in U.S. history, was caught with an LG flip phone under his prison mattress. Manson made calls and sent text messages to people in California, New Jersey,...
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Why Apple will win the mobile wars →
Jared Keller of The Atlantic lays out why he believes Apple will dominate the mobile world.
He writes:
Forget apps. In the coming mobile revolution, the company with the best machines will win.
And continues:
What’s Apple’s secret? It’s not apps or the app store, since virtually every app that exists for the Apple OS exists for Android as well. It’s the Hip Factor:...
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iPhone app helps save basketball player's life
Xavier Jones, 17, (pictured above on the right) collapsed during basketball practice at La Verne Lutheran High School. He was administered CPR by his coach, Eric Cooper Sr. (pictured left) who was aided by a first aid application on his iPhone.
Coincidentally, Cooper had purchased the $1.99 application, called PhoneAid, as a sort of refresher course on CPR. “It was really fresh and clear in...
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Nielsen says: Androids for boys, iPhones for girls →
From Times Technology:
Planning to get a smartphone? If you’re a woman, chances are you want an iPhone.
Meanwhile, Mars residents are likely to go the Android route, according to new research from The Nielsen Co.
Also, BlackBerry is still commanding 27% of the smartphone market.
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World AIDS Day: How you can use your phone to help
December 1 marks World AIDS Day.
Some current facts about the disease:
—According to the Center for Disease Control and the United Nations, approximately 33 million people worldwide are living with HIV.
—New HIV infections have dropped by 20% worldwide, however cases of new infections still outpaces the number of those being treated.
—Women and girls still account for nearly...