Archive for April, 2006

Hack your ROKR. Beat the 100 song iTunes limit.

Monday, April 24th, 2006

When the first ( and second) iTunes phones were released, the chief complaint, aside from not being an iPod, was the 100 song limitation. It was only a matter of time before hackers figured out how to beat it. Read: Engadget Mobile

Motorola’s RAZR 2: The Canary Chirps at Engadget

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Remember what the Vulcan did for the StarTac? (It showed it up as the smallest, sexiest new thing) The Canary (RAZR2) does the same to the RAZR. I want one! Read and Gawk: Engadget

» ScanR: Turn your camera phone into a scanner

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Techcrunch (a few days ago) posts about a new mobile service, ScanR, which will turn your cameraphone pics into pdfs. If you have a camera phone with at least one megapixel of resolution, ScanR is great for turning things like whiteboard images and paper drawings into something more usable. This is ...

Forget ‘vibrate’, set your phone to ’shock’

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Keep missing phone calls because you can't feel your phone vibrate? We'll Motorola has patented a new type of silent alert using electric shocks! The system, not unlike the massage and weight loss systems currently available on the market today, uses a small pad containing electrodes that are wirelessly linked to ...

Mobile phones may match PCs as dominant internet platform report

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

TMCnet reports on a new report from DMeurope.com indicating that phones may be used to surf the internet as much as PCs. The report doesn't differentiate on the type of internet surfing that is being done and it apparently skewed towards European users. However, growth in internet browsing on a ...

Verizon Customer Service: Security Adventure

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Last Sunday I left my phone up in Wayne, NJ where I celebrated Easter with some close friends. Bummer. I was halfway home before I realized it. No big deal; TJ would be coming down this weekend and I could get my calls forwarded to my Sprint Ambassasdor phone. No problems. ...

Paris Hilton gets her own Mobile Game

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Is that a Paris in your pocket or are you just happy to see me. Or both? Paris Hilton makes Mocoblog headlines with the announcement of her forthcoming cell phone game from Gameloft. There's been no details released yet on the gameplay, or indeed on whether the game will feature La Hilton's ...

MSN Messenger Problems

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Totally off topic... But is anyone else having problems with their MSN Messenger... I thought it was Gaim, but I can't connect from the official MSN app either. Then I thought it was my (highly-optimized, msconfig'd) PC, but I get the same 81000314, Service Temporarily Unavailable error. What's wierd is that everyone ...

Emoze: Make Your Cell Phone a Crackberry

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Part of the Blackberry's appeal is it's ability to have email pushed to it (as opposed to it's user needed to "check" their mail.) We all know the Blackberry's looks aren't sellng units. Now any conventional cell phone has the ability to get "push email" with emoze. emoze currently works with ...

Happy slapper . . . . slapped (watch it here)

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Emily picked up on a Times post regarding a happy slapper who was owned by his victim. You could read the article or just watch the beauty of it here. (via picturephoning.com)