Archive for September, 2005
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
I don't have the YES network at home. I can usually track Yankee scores online; on my phone I would use crap wap. I found WAP to be way too slow: access, response, navigation.
I was out playing ball with Bailey, and thought I would try Google SMS to get the ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Users look to ringtones to differentiate themselves and their phones. The use of ringtones and wallpapers helps mobile users personalize their phones. Hip ringtones and wallpapers can make you the most popular guy in school. But what about the user who shuns Mariah, 50 Cent, and Green Day ringtones? What ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
The latest mobile phones are equipped with microSD cards (aka fka transFlash) used to store pictures, ringtones, mp3, videos and any other type of digital data a modern cell phone can process.
While the cellcos, record labels, and content aggregators have been trying to figure out how to monetize the ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
The ROKR may have flopped, but iTunes on Windows Mobile can potentially bring iTunes goodness to existing smartphones. If Apple makes this available for all smartphone owners (and I can't see any reason they wouldn't), they won't need to wrastle with the cellcos for music store rights and profit sharing. ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
I resisted posting about this because I many mobile virus stories are used to hype anti-virus software companies who are making a big deal about nothing. Nonetheless, I found it interesting enough that the Cardtrap.A Trojan essentially uses mobile phones as a transport to ultimately infect a PC.
A typical ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
I've been meaning to link to this texutally.org article for a few days now.
In short, children in the UK (and I'm sure everywhere else) are no longer getting the excercise they need thanks to IM, texting, mobile phones, portable computing and gaming.
"They are shunning traditional playground activities in favour of ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Britney uses them to sell perfume. Coke uses them to push their products on us. Now Britain's Milk Development Council is using ringtones to peddle, of all things - milk!
Schools in the UK could soon be buzzing with Mootone, a ringtone devised by the dairy industry to get kids ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
I saw the press release and signed up.
Like the title states, Mophone reminds me of MySpace and 3GForFree morphed together.
Like 3gForFree, Mophone provides an easy way for mobile users to share ringtones and wallpapers. Like MySpace, each user has his own area to upload, receive messages, add friends, and ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
How's that for a catchy title.
While I'm sure many of you were hoping that George Bush got shot, the story is actually about the rock band's new video shot entirely with camera phones.
The video for the track "Some Postman," culled from the band's last studio album, "Love Everybody," was ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
Seasonal ringtones are making inroads as John Carpenter's Halloween enters the Billboard at 10. Virgin Canada's cheap users still loving 5 Cents ringtones. Virgin UK has no change to their ringtone top 10.
Billboard (Issue date 10/01/05)
Gold Digger, Kanye West Featuring Jamie Foxx
Shake It Off, ...
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