Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 31st, 2006
7.2 Mbps!!!
Whoa. Especially when you look at T1 speeds at 1.5mbps and DSL at 3.0 Mbps. That it crazy fast... and here today (sort of).
HSDPA is designed to boost network capacity for data transmissions up to four times and enables twice as many wireless users per cell site compared ...
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
Today when emerging from Penn Station the AMNY guy handed me their paper before the Metro guy. As a result I now have this to post.
Motorola subsidiary, Mirs Communication, of Israel (of course) debuted a phone last year which carries the seal of approval of Israel's rabbinical autorities. In a ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
I've been fortunate to have had a new iMac at my disposal recently (while crashing at my brother's place.) Amongst his Dashboard widgets was the SMS Widget.
This nifty, free, widget lets you send SMS to any major North American carrier via the internet (email to SMS gateway.)
* Free messages to ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Most blogging platforms let you post via email. Most cellphones allow for SMS to email/email to SMS services. With those two things you can easily post to most blogging platforms from your cellphone.
(Yawn until I discovered that) LetMeParty.com lets you configure multiple blogs in your account. This way, with ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Although the Catholic chuch disallows SMS penance, it does promote SMS prayer. In Scotland, Catholics are offered a chance to "pray, protest and ponder" by text message.
Mobile phone users will be asked to pray for leaders and people in distress. Examples could include subscribers being given the first name of ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Following recent announcements from Google and Yahoo, is Lycos's VoIP, IM, video chat, and multi-media offering.
In addition to the voice services, the softphone is built with video calling and instant messaging capabilities. It also has an on-demand and streaming video player and an MP3 player. Content will include movie trailers ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
For all you paranoid people out there, you can now safely spy on your (in)significant other so long as they have a Symbian phone.
All activity such as sending & receiving SMS messages, call history, (incoming / outgoing), call duration, GPRS activity, & contact names in their address book that is ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Nelly's Grillz still haaawt in here. Canada goes Carribean with Reggaeton. UK looks the same.
Billboard (Issue date 04/01/06)
Grillz, Nelly Featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp
So Sick, Ne-Yo
My Humps, The Black Eyed Peas
Ms. New Booty, Bubba Sparxxx Featuring Ying ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
It happened quicker than I expected, but you can now make buy products and send money by text messaging with PayPal.
I won't be surprised if this becomes America's de facto mobile wallet.
I mean, who doesn't have a PayPal account. Chances are, if you are willing to buy something on ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
More branding on your cell phone.
some Asian manufacturers will soon start placing "Intel Inside" labels onto their cell phones to show that their handsets use Intel's chips.
Yawn. Unlike PCs, most ppl won't care.
Insightful post comment:
So, to be serious, "Intel Inside" used to be a really big deal for a ...
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