19 month ago
plasticbag : The Guardian Technology blog has revealed that for the second time in almost as many months The Independent has got something startlingly wrong... - This is the mobile phones kill bees thing that went around a while back. Apparently even the researchers of the original paper are sort of horrified by the way it was presented by the increasingly 'invisible ray'-afraid Indy...
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20 month ago
43folders : Reading Between the Lines of a Courtesy Call - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog - "Of COURSE they’re making a 'courtesy call'—if I change one single aspect of my contract, they get to reset my two-year obligation back to Day One!"
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22 month ago
wearehugh : Crazy Apple Rumors Site » Blog Archive » Zune Phone To Also Suck. - "This comment was followed by a long pause as reporters waited for some sort of support for this contention."
43folders : Crazy Apple Rumors: Zune Phone To Also Suck - "Also, the Zellular Phone Call will only allow you to call someone three times." [via:Daring Fireball]
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23 month ago
43folders : Cellswapper.com Get out of your cell phone contract - I wonder if services like this might lead to "sell-offs" around events like the iPhone. If so, I'd short my masters at Sprint around mid-May.
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23 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC has an article about people who think all this technology stuff is just moving a bit too fast, really. It cites the iPhone as an example. It is a dumb article. - There are lots of people confused by new technologies. In the UK, a large number of them end up with Sky+ and love it. Most have mobile phones. There will always be confusing technology and there will always be people—like Apple—who work to
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23 month ago
43folders : Apple is the new NASA | A Whole Lotta Nothing - "The iPhone isn’t just a new gadget. It looks like something that will transform the way we think about cellphones."
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25 month ago
43folders : Word Spy - stage-phoning - "Attempting to impress nearby people by talking on a cell phone in an animated, theatrical manner." (thanks, Finn)
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25 month ago
43folders : Taiwan's Hon Hai wins Apple orders for mobile handsets, notebook PCs - report - Forbes.com - "Hon Hai Precision Industry...has secured contracts from Apple Computer for 12 mln mobile handsets that also function as music players..."
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27 month ago
43folders : NPR : Power of GPS Phones Locked Away from Most Users - Hackers and Makers want freer access to cool GPS phone features. Fusic LG does a couple cool things with this -- but it's all for-pay AFAIK.
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27 month ago
43folders : AnnoyingCoworker - Let your coworker know about their annoying habits! - Anonymous advice for un-clueful coworkers. "If you choose to keep your cell phone on at the office, discover the vibrate option."
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27 month ago
jkottke : The oh, don't forget site offers an easy way to send yourself (and other people) reminders to a mobile phone - The oh, don't forget site offers an easy way to send yourself (and other people) reminders to a mobile phone. And API for this would be great...you could (theoretically) send all your iCal appointment alarms to the service.
43folders : oh, don't forget... - Drop-dead simple web app for sending a reminder to your mobile phone. via Mr. Kottke
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28 month ago
merlinmann : 43 Folders Mobile Edition - Get 43F served up nice and simple for your mobile device.
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30 month ago
merlinmann : dynatac - Google Image Search - No, seriously. Would you not feel like the man, walking around town with a big ole brick in your holster -- ringer cranked to 11. Awesome.
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30 month ago
merlinmann : USATODAY.com - More companies tell workers to silence cellphones - "Thirty percent of employees said cellphones ringing at work was their No. 1 pet peeve."
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34 month ago
merlinmann : Two Cents [The most mind-boggling cell-phone behavior you've ever witnessed?] - "I was behind a vehicle in the Golden Gate Bridge toll lane and the driver was using two cell phones simultaneously."
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Mekwa & Beam Station Project - A pretty fascinating presentation expressing a different kind of personalised toy avatar widget that sits on phones and can travel around the world. I don't know if I've explaing it particularly well...
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42 month ago
plasticbag : A mobile tale of three cities - "Amparo Lasén, a Spanish sociologist, is completing a study conducted for the Digital World Research Center at the University of Surrey in England of mobile phone users in London, Madrid and Paris to compare behavioral changes between cultures and over
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Loic talks about the new Nokia N90 and drops a little interesting hint about Tiger's support for Nokia phones - If it means that I have a little more choice in what phones I can use properly with my computer, then I'll be delighted...
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44 month ago
Andy Baio : Blogger Mobile - post blog entries and photos with MMS [via] [via]
Philippe Janvier : Blogger Mobile - Le moblogging vu par Blogger. Kitch ! [via] #
plasticbag : Blogger Mobile launches - Somehow being able to send photos or text to your weblog doesn't seem as impressive all these months after Flickr...
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46 month ago
plasticbag : Engadget review of the Siemens SK65 - I was interested in this phone because of the intriguing way they've integrated a QWERTY keyboard into it - but it sounds like the rest of the phone is a bit lacking
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46 month ago
plasticbag : Push to Talk - I watched a show about Push to Talk on the BBC the other day. I'd never heard of it before, but apparently it's huge in the states. Is this true?
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Nokia brings 'Visual Radio' to mobile phones - Weird one this. Visual supplements to radio are generally considered to be used for enhanced information provision. But often the rights owners don't want you broadcasting song information...
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48 month ago
philgyford : Tech Report: HPL-2004-216: How and Why People Use Camera Phones - If I link to it maybe I can get away without reading it?
cameron : How and Why People use cell phone cameras - 6-part taxonomy of mobile picture taking uses
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