Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
This weekend I purchased my first Get It Now game in a long while. Usually content with surfing Verizon's Web 2.0 at EV-DO speeds, I finally broke down and laid out $6.49 forZuma from Sorrent. Maybe I was high from the fumes in the nail salon as I waited for ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Although Carlo titles his post, "Investors Tell Verizon to Dump Vodaphone" I think he may have intended it the other way. It appears that Vodaphone investors are calling for a sale of their 45% stake in Verizon.
The Verizon stake doesn't make a lot of sense for Vodafone these days, ...
Posted in Mobile Services, News | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Sorry for not rounding up the last few weeks. Here we go again. Candy Shop, TPD back on the Bill. The Pogues ring in UK!!!
Billboard (Issue date 01/28/06)
My Humps, Black Eyed Peas
Super Mario Brothers Theme, Koji Kando
Gold Digger, Kanye West Featuring Jamie ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
textually.org writes of AdMob.com, a Google AdWords-like service for mobile websites. Advertisers can now buy keywords and display pay-per-click ads on mobile web/wap devices. You can even customize ads by device model!
AdMob (via textually.org)
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
While some theaters are urging for cell phone jammers others seem to welcome the technology in their cinema.
Outside Detroit, a movie theater is experimenting with mobile movie tickets. Quite similiar to the online purchase and print model (which Ticketmaster and others use), instead of printing your ticket, it is sent ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
In an article on The Register today, mBlox, premium billing provider, was "called-out" for jumping on the porn bandwagon money train. Can you really blame them? After all, the "straightlaced" companies like Jamster! are tainting the market in their own deceptive way to the detriment of mBlox. Ultimately if mBlox ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Send yourself an SMS reminder automatically. Enter your phone number, pick a date and time in the future, type a message, and you are done. You can set multiple reminders for you (or friends or enemies.)
Link: ToTheCell (via textually.org)
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
They're practically giving it all away!
Google Inc. has opened it instant messaging and Internet telephony services to any company willing to support the XMPP protocol, a standard under the control of an open-source foundation.
Last month Google announced an investment in AOL which will allow users of AOL's Instant Messenger to ...
Posted in Convergence, News | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
YA Cellphone Etiquette Guide
Here's my fave:
4. Popular ringtones can be extremely annoying and avoiding their use is an act that will be appreciated by the whole of humankind. In fact, even the tune producers, like the company behind Crazy Frog, know that their ringtones can be annoying, but someone is ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Introducing Pherotones. A ringtone which will make you irresistible and help you unlock your (and other's) sexual potential.
This is hysterical. It's like the Internet ringtone ads mated with the sexual enhancement ones. It looks to be part of an ad campaign, although it is hard to say what the product ...
Posted in Funny, Wacky, & Weird, News | 3 Comments »